remove all the black people in attendance. they did not reach out to me at any point for comment because they knew if they acknowledged the fact that black man who is black to everyone but joe biden had organized the event, it would undermine their narrative of this was some racially exclusive event. so we're looking forward to holding them account and we're going to do all that we can do to fight for the people and this -- who end a -- who attended this event >> laura: a lot of these people are your friends and after that story, a lot of them felt like they were painted as racist just for being at that party. that is unacceptable. they should retract that cover and frankly publish an apology at the very least. cj, thank you very much. that's it for us tonight. make sure to follow me on social media. you know them all.

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gaza or send troops to. >> todd: ending wasteful dei programs and according to "the wall street journal," staffers have been when the agency is drafting a list of workers in environmental justice and notice to come as soon asked today. in the meantime googled the latest company to ditch dei announcing they will get rid of some of their diversity hiring targets peer to the cited president trump's executive order and our teams are evaluating changes required following recent court decisions and executive orders on this topic. google joins a growing list of major tech companies backing away from dei including meta and amazon scaling back diversity policies following president trump's election victory. attorney general pam bondi

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>> carley: the democrat mayor is to testify over oversight committee on sanctuary cities. the mayors city, chicago, boston, denver. they are accused of prioritizing illegal immigrants over americans. the american people deserve an explanation. the committee as part of an investigation with policies and public safety and federal immigration enforcement. but is set for march 5th. meanwhile, president trump's justice department targeting a blue county sheriff for releasing an illegal immigrant criminal in a college town acting deputy attorney general says the migrant was released by the tompkins county sheriff's office in upstate new york near cornell university despite a warrant a and a history of violence. ♪ ♪ >> todd: on her first day as attorney general, pam bondi and

inc. federal money going to sanctuary cities to crack down on cartels and gangs made their way into the country. iran then dora jackson is a congressional candidate and wife of retired worker agent and joins me now. great to have you on the program. will these sanctuary jurisdictions finally play ball with the feds now that the money could be drying up if they do don't? >> yeah, thank you for having me. but the reality is they have been very insubordinate and standoffish event and the first trump administration. i was filming around the church sacred heart in el paso when we have thousands and thousands of people. i exposed the tattoos on so many illegal aliens. i have never called him immigrants because per immigration law, they are illegal immigrants. my parents are here legally. they are very insubordinate and i don't think they will comply with directives they get from

this administration. >> todd: that will hurt their own citizens because once the federal funding dries up, it pulls on the citizens in those cities and in those states to pay for it with increased tax dollars. that is not fair to americans doing the right thing. here are some other priorities for pam bondi. reimagining charging arresting priorities targeting gang leaders, for terrorists and murder acts, arresting for prior violent crimes, and of course, targeting fentanyl equipment. i'm trying to put myself in your position, irene the wife of border patrol agent. it is unconscionable to get these obvious policies pam bondi will be enacting were enacted by -- weren't enacted by the biden administration? just as american citizen, that is what we deserve. to the constitution of the united states and provide one of the functions of the constitution of the federal government to provide for

tranquility of the american citizens, we the people of this united states. we demand those things. they are common sense! but the reality is the democrats and the last administration don't care. if pam bondi will be starting with any of the investigations, i encourage her to begin with every representative, every mayor on border cities because we know the mayor, new mayor, old mayor, the congresswoman who i ran against veronica escobar, they have many who cannot be explained. the rumors we say in spanish [speaking another language] it is a secret, but it is an out loud secret. everybody understands that they have connections with the cartels. you can't tell me on hundred $78,000 salary in six years you have become an multimillionaire. american people demand safety. we demand answers, but most of

all consequences. we can have the hearings but to be honest, an american citizen i am sick and tired of hearing and i want results. i want to know why we are not talking about alejandro mayorkas and one of the few biden did not pardon. we want to make sure americans understand that el paso and every border city has been ignored and with expulsion since 2019, all lies in el paso. illegal immigration has been the way of life. a.m. every tear native of el paso. and a lot of people that were deported would go to the church that i used to go to as a kid. they would ask for help. so illegal immigration is nothing new to spiritual in this amount, it is unfathomable we cannot sustain this. >> todd: irene, to be clear, that is a big accusation you are levering stomach leveling on politicians whether congressional members or whethed

state government or local government they are tied to the cartels. let's be clear, if there is any truth to that, we can trust pam bondi will go and get to the bottom of it. that is a pretty big, pretty thick now that you are throwing out there make. we will see if it is true. irene, thank you for your time and insight. to outfox weather alert now, 100 people under winter weather alerts this morning back-to-back ice and snow storms threatened 22 states from the midwest to te northeast. >> carley: 100 million people in that includes washington, d.c., thoughts meteorologist jane, it looks like it will be slippery to make slippery for lawmakers heading to work today. >> carley, we are kind of waiting for it. this morning featured pretty steady, cold rain that not a lot of ice yet. washington, d.c., around the capital 70 crews on standby ready to treat the roads to make

sure safe morning commute as possible. but ice is a big concern. 100 million people under these winter weather alerts, it is going to be a tough start to the day. washington, d.c.,, we are actually in a little bit of a lull and temperatures aged degree or two above freezing because that means we will not see as much ice for now. will that change the next hour or two coke? maybe but the nation's capital for getting ice is pretty slim. i think about 8:00, 9:00, we should be on the better side at the forecast. we cannot be said for everybody. i-95 corridors and philadelphia, slick roads with colder air and the cold they are only like to call at high pressure off the northeast coast funneling and that canadian colder air against the allegheny mountains into the

apalachee. it is in d.c., carley and todd, northwest of town, reports a pretty slick roads and dangerous conditions because of one-tenth to a quarter inch of ice to accumulate not just on roads the power lines, tree branches. that will be a concern for power outages some of which we have seen overnight, ohio, chicago, very slick this morning. a couple inches of ice accumulated through the overnight hours. this is just the beginning. we get another storm coming into this weekend and what seems to be a parade of winter weather from the great lakes to the northeast all the way to next week. >> carley: jane men are live at the capital. tracking the ice storm in freezing temperatures this morning. it is a day for sensible shoes at home. >> todd: noted, ladies, sensible shoes. >> it depends on the temperatures you want to listen

to local weathercasters because it depends on where you are. but we do have a mess of rain, freezing rain, sleet, ice, snow, you and it thrown at the map. the paints are the ice concerns and we have potential for mixing in the purple and the blue is the snow way that. ice storm warning for appalachians and you heard jane say north and west of d.c. area and that is where we could get worse before it gets better. anthemic storm moves through. here is your forecast by late this afternoon and this evening for storm is pretty much out of there in new england where they snow event as we go through the evening and overnight. here is the snow still to come. not a huge blockbuster in terms of heavy snow coach up at the ice and freezing rain will be tg concern for the morning commute. here is the storm for this weekend and this we can actually could have a little bit more

oomph and that's not meteorological term. into meteorologist books. hitting some of the same areas that we have seen getting the snow and ice and the freezing rain. this will be weekend event saturday into sunday. if you have plans, deftly watched the forecast because this could be a little bit more stronger. >> carley: now we know. >> todd: i don't think today is a elite event, my snowplow guy but that ice is what i'm worried about. >> maybe we should have a plea measure, is this a 5 or 6 or 10? >> todd: a cheat every time i tell him not to come. >> carley: janice, thank you so much. >> i love this next story, making dreams come true for some of america's heroes by surprising them with tickets to super bowl lix. >> carley: that is right, we

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>> carley: the white house is doubling down on president trump intentionally abolishing the department of education. >> so the education botched is on the table. >> he has good reason to talk about it. they education is failing the students in this country. as a mother of a child i want to help my child to read and write and nothing else in the classroom here till the present is wholeheartedly to make academia great again in this

country. >> carley: on the house committee on education in the workforce joins me now, congressmen, good morning to you. it is clear a long time the education system is not working. right now 65% of fourth graders can't read at grade levels. president trump considering this executive order to abolish the department of education, which will keep the interest of a lot of parents worried about how this could impact they are a child. so speak directly to those parents, congressman if you could and what they can expect if this does go into effect. >> first of all, this is one of the most important topics we can talk about, carley. one of the founders said our country depends on kids being able to think, be proud of themselves and take the great legacy and take it to the next generation. without education, we cannot do that and this is a problem for quite a few decades. the biggest concern is the lack

of success. these are people, these people's lives, 75% of black boys and the state of california cannot read and write. we we have districts in baltimore with the patient see a map. we have to do something about it. the department of education is to make sure our kids are learning the best in the world and they are not doing it. we have 70% failure rate in any business, they go out of business. what this looks like is we need to focus on the kids and our children and not institution. how that looks like, we will figure out. we are very innovative. we know things are not working we have to figure out how to make sure the bottom line coach at those focused on will be succeeding. i'm looking forward to it. we might be decentralizing and be funding in certain areas but some institutions has done this to our children and are very afraid right now. do we have somebody in office who cares about our children and the future, and i am excited to that process. >> carley: back at the

national association says trump's power grab would steal resources from most vulnerable students and expose class sizes, at job training exercises and take away education services and that civil rights protections. americans did not vote for and do not support ending federal government's commitment to ensuring equal educational opportunities for every child. two-part question here because we have a lot to get to in a short period of time. please respond to that criticism and also have you spoke to donald trump about this? do you think he will sign the executive order to abolish the d.o.e.? >> let me say this, that lady go to that person has lost the right to say anything. 70% of the children fourth grade through eighth grade cannot read and write. they have nothing to say on this topic. whatever we will do will focus to make sure our kids will push the power and the money back to the parents. a lot of payments in the state to figure out how to do it best

and hold people accountable. we hold school boards accountable. they will do the best job because obviously, it is not working in d.c. president trump, i have not talked with him but i am so excited he is coming to d.c. with a mission. to the mission is to make america great again. we cannot do that without kids being able to think again. i'm excited about the new change and it's all about innovation. let's innovate and get that done in our kids will be remarkably successful. >> carley: speaking of, to ban biological men from sports he signed an executive order. for signing at the executive order, here is a many statement, "the ncaa has responded, and president trump has a clear national standard. the ncaa board of governors is reviewing executive order and will take necessary steps to align ncaa policies in the coming days." it sounds like they are on board with this. how important is the executive

order and can congress codified this into law? >> it is called common sense and yes, we will codify. keep in mind, this is what the department of education has placed on us for decades, this crazy mass. this marxist ideology. this is another example why they have not been successful and focusing on the wrong things instead of reading, writing and knowing how to teach math. he is coming an end keep in mind, this is only the second week. in the coming days, all safety blitz and it is exciting to see it. for those who are not tired of winning, we will continue winning for quite a while, the next leaders. >> carley: 14 days, i would not do my job asking about the super bowl emptying a super bowl keeping yourself point for the raiders, will you be todd's team that equals 27-10. what is your take on the game? >> i am one of those guys,

stopped watching when they started kneeling. i'm not the expert, because i was in philadelphia when he was there. i am all in. he knows how to build a culture as president trump is building a culture as we speak. that is where i will go but i will be watching, by the way. you guys enjoy yourself. a very exciting day for many americans. >> carley: he will not watch but he is taking the chiefs anyway. we appreciated. >> think you, carley, take care. >> carley: speaking for the big game on fox, several veterans surprised with a chance to attend super bowl lix and they are chance to meet favorite nfl stars. watch this. >> what is your current favorite sport? >> football. >> when i think about football... >> doing great. >> everything good?

are you an eagles fan? i have something better on behalf of usa, we want to surprise you two tickets to the super bowl in new orleans. >> oh my goodness! >> todd: i love that army staff sergeant matt getting his tickets from quarterback drake. may be cursing in the process and it's all good. marine corps veteran, jonathan and u.s. army reserve sergeant here all headed to the big game this weekend. matt, we will start with you. what is it like to get surprised with the tickets up and coming star like you are and drake may? >> just totally unbelievable. the whole experience definitely caught me off guard i really didn't know what to say. we may had to retake a couple of things because i was saying inappropriate things and totally an amazing experience. drake was amazing and awesome opportunity to meet him and really kind of talk with him a little bit and get surprised

with super bowl tickets. a bucket list and to be able to do it and to do it this way is kind of a recognition of service and supporting the american legion. i'm super happy and honored to do that. >> todd: it is awesome. you all deserve it and including yourself, surprised by kim jordan who wrote the following x, here we go, about you. "so honored to bring the sergeant and to super bowl lix and thank you for incredible service throughout career in the army. big thanks to usaa and w wp for help and you happen. i can't wait to show you all new orleans." the big thing i want to point out is you are a cheap span so how are excited are you to get the tickets and number two coco joe collect your team in person? >> i am so excited and just like you said, i am so shocked. but for that chiefs to be there

for hopefully a repeat, we are so excited to. >> todd: it is going to be awesome. jonathan, you got your surprise and let's face it, jaden daniels of the commanders, here is what you posted, "blessed in season one as a grandson that runs i'm teaming with usaa and marines to pass, one more blessing this year perhaps saint jonathan. nfl fan the thirty-year u.s. marines that don't make in a super bowl trip." how cool to get a surprise from someone who comes from big military family? >> of course, in a special and obviously thank him for reaching out to take this time to go to the super bowl, super stoked. the fact he came from a family who served in the military is awesome he's giving back to the military community. i'm looking forward to get down there in new orleans and shake his hand in person.

>> todd: let's go around the one quick late, think looking forward mostly this weekend, jonathan, start with you. >> for me a chance to get to new orleans and spend time with my best friend john richards who i'm bringing up from san diego. military and traveling throughout my career, i have not had as much time to spend with family and friends. the time to get quality time with my best friend and down in new orleans watching the super bowl to see the show. and i think here this year might be pulling for the chiefs. >> todd: i love it, the big thing you are looking forward to most? >> i'm excited for electric atmosphere and that chiefs win, a chorus. >> todd: i love it, so committed for the team i am rooting for too. jonathan, excuse me, matt, take us home and what is that thing you are looking forward to most? >> taking in the whole experience and i don't have a dog in this fight. but taking a double experience and it might be easy because i

don't have an interest. >> todd: i know but can you join us with the chief's question might they beat you in the super bowl couple of years ago. come on, matt and that she stands. >> we might have to get on board. >> todd: i love it, you can watch the pregame show on fox 31:00 p.m. before kickoff 6:30 but you fine folks will be in the game 6:30 and you deserve it. thank you for joining us and most importantly thank you all for your serve as spiritual enjoy the game and enjoy the weekend, carley just gave you a clap. >> carley: i was thinking about all of the chicken wings i would be done on sunday. >> todd: should be in her field you with a special surprise? by the way, the story taking over the country, blake lightly hit with $7 million defamation lawsuit as we get more details of her relationship if you can call it with that with just about tony. >> carley: here to break down and be at fault in this holiday

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♪ ♪ >> todd: the clock is ticking for tens of thousands of government employees who have been offered buyouts from the trump administration. they have until midnight to accept the deal. >> carley: cheryl casone joins

us with important decisions to be made for the families. >> a lot of the workers have to make those decisions. to the dead deadline is midnight eastern time and many are talking to "the wall street journal" and confused the domain there are career councils to help them dee if they take the buyout or not and they would get paid for the end of december up at the journl is saying 40,000 if not just a little more at this point have accepted. that number will likely go up today. but remember what the white house wants to do and they made this clear cut 5% to 10% of the workforce and that saves $100 billion on an annual basis from that debt the government is currently sitting on right now. about 2 million workers perform civilian jobs for the u.s. government right now. the other side of cutting, of course, the budgets and trimming the fat, and this is what elon musk and doge are trying to do is what they did

with usaid. and also, they are targeting not just be 22 but state department waste in general. here are examples of the money and do we need to be spending money? here is a perfect example do you need to spend $1.5 million to advance dei in serbia? do you need $3.3 million for lgbtq t and the caribbean? $50 million went to the condom and lgbtq would tea for electric vehicles for vietnam and dei a musical in ireland? a lot of lawmakers, guys go to is fair to say are looking at this and we really have to evaluate where our hard-earned taxpayer monies and americans are going. joni ernst, very involved with doge says usaid has been stonewalling her personally for years. listen to this.

>> i have been on usaid's case for years now going back several years where i was trying to investigate the expenditures for humanitarian aid primarily when it came to the war in ukraine. let my team and i encountered was absolute destruction analyze coming out of usaid. they did everything possible to stop me from accessing their records to understand where the taxpayer money was going. >> of another reason why doge is looking at all agencies. and that is where you will expect at some point there will be layoffs and all agencies because they really do want to downsize the federal government. >> carley: you have congressman chris van hollen will fight doge in the streets. i don't see many people getting out their pitchforks to fight back to save taxpayer money but there is always tomorrow that will. >> todd: it is not chris van hollen's money although he thinks it is but it's our money.

want to do j.d. whitworth show. don't mess cheryl casone's morning show. >> carley: $7 million defamation crisis publicists weaponized digital army against her. the actress legal team "another day another state and another nine figure lawsuit seeking to sue miss lively into oblivion for speaking out against sexual harassment and retaliation" lexi joins me now, lexi, good morning to you. this case is all over social media. there are some people deep internet following every twist and turn. a lot of us feel like we are already chapter 35 about the saga and don't quite know what to make of it. before we get into the latest, can we take a step back and who is suing and who is accusing people of what in the details of what is going on here? of course, carley, i am one of

the people all over this. i have read everything there is to read on it. blake lively in california file basically civil rights complaint in california against justin baldoni, the studio that helped finance the movie "wayfarer" and a bunch of other people. then there was a lot of public support for her at the time and after that a few weeks later she filed a federal complaint in federal court. that is the actual lawsuit. the california civil rights complaint is a little different and precursor to a lawsuit. the southern district of new york, she filed a big lawsuit against wayfarer studios and a bunch of other people. he ended up counter suing and the lawyer promised to sue her into oblivion and that is obviously what he's trying to do. he fired a monster lawsuit and a complaint based on new information. so now we are waiting to see what her team is doing. i think they have said they are going to be filing a complaint

as well. in this thing has tentacles. you have a lengthy side litigations going on and this is one of them. >> carley: let's talk about fat, let's talk about blake lively weaponizing a digital army because that is what justin baldoni or blake lively is also doing in "the new york times" piece. he is suing "the new york times" over that. >> yeah, in her california civil rights complaint, she pointed at the gate will maker at jed wallace and a company he owns a pair to basically are text messages in the civil rights complaint which should not be public, which is part of his allegation that basically says, jed is doing a great job on the internet with the smear campaign. i'm paraphrasing and it obviously doesn't say that but implicates this guy. he filed a suit in texas. wait a minute gotcha done that, not only did i not do this but

the framing meat and damaging my reputation and costing me money and so he has sued her in texas in federal court and that is what this now $7 million lawsuit is all about. >> carley: it is a big, old mess and i keep thinking and i set up before these two actors, we wish this whole thing didn't start to begin with. it was not even made. >> i can't imagine, she must be kicking herself every day that she started this. she fired the first shot and now it is on. >> carley: yikes! >> it will get uglier. i think it might inspire other people either named in california civil rights division complaint or federal complaints that counter sue her. >> carley: and someone has to follow it all which as you which is why wait to ask you to come on this morning. let's go to kansas city to talk to the chiefs fans ahead of super bowl lix. hey, steve.

>> hello, carley, welcome to kansas city. actually, overland park and we have been talking about this place for a while. you see the sign chicken and pickle. it is a pickleball place. you know what i know it is 4:50 a.m. in the morning. [cheers and applause] i have some ladies, and we will play -- this is liz. show the back of your jersey. okay, she has played with patrick mahomes. are you ready down there? today on "fox & friends," what we are going to do is go ahead -- you got it? [cheers and applause] we are going to talk to the chiefs fans because there is a real good possibility the chiefs could actually three repeat which has never been done. [cheers and applause] wait a minute, are we playing for money? what the heck! can we edit that out so that nobody saw it?

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already laying out his top priorities. >> todd: weird to say this but we're gonna. doug collins joins us now. congrats. we couldn't be happier. be real. it's a big job. veterans need your help. what are your priorities to help them? >> carley and todd, great to see you all. i'm so excited president trump tapped me to be a part of this administration especially here at the v.a. something close to my heart over 25 years myself in military. that question is simple. i have one mission now. it's the veterans of this country. president trump said take care of them and that's what we're going to be doing. i hit the ground running yesterday. the priorities is make sure the veterans get the benefits they deserve. get the ones that they have

earned. health benefits they need making sure our system is efficient. they have so many trouble getting the health benefits or don't know they have benefits. we will change that starting yesterday. we are making a difference here at the va. >> carley: secretary, speaking of efficiency in president trump's first term, the big thing that happened regarding the va is he made it easier for bad employees to be fired and right now there is a lot of pink slips flying around in washington and a representative for doge, the depa department of government efficiency is working with the department of v.a. how will that impact services and what do you think needs to be done to make veterans affairs more efficient? >> well, look, i want to make sure everybody understands this one thing clearly. representatives helping us look at our contracts and it development. the one thing they're helping us do is make sure we are taking care of veterans. for all that is being said around the hill that doge is

getting in the way of veterans or that we're not -- is just flat wrong. what we're doing is making more efficient so our veterans get the benefits that they have earned. that's where we are really working. efficiency system you still have back clog logs for folks get healthcare. where have you backlog to get their v.a. benefits. these are things that shouldn't happen. i made a statement when i was going through confirmation i said in a veteran has to call their congressman or senator to get help from the v.a. then the v.a. is missing the mark. that's the standard i set across this very large department we're not going to miss the mark we are going to continue to do what it takes. look to efficiency how we do our contracts and it and how we make sure at the end of the day the veterans getting the very best care they can get. >> carley: music to the ears of many. do you think the v.a. is the best choice of healthcare for veterans? and, if not, we have less than a minute remaining, how do you make it that way? >> well, i think that the v.a. will always be here for our veterans. we have a amazing employees across the board.

and we're looking forward to encouraging them and making sure that those who won't make sure they don't get on board as well. great healthcare for our veterans. >> we have the mission act. we have the ability for veterans who are maybe a little distanced or meet the criteria they can get doctors outside the v.a. system with v.a. pay. this is something very important to me. making sure that the veteran has the choice to make sure that they get the benefit of healthcare that they want in the place that they need it. that's why we have the mission act. that's why we worked with congress over the years. why i voted on it when i was in congress. >> todd: and in the time frame that they need it. if you are sick ted you don't need healthcare in two years. you need it today. doug collins. >> carley: thank you for joining us. >> todd: looking forward to you make that problem go away. best of luck, sir. >> you too. >> carley: "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪