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john roberts in washington. massive crackdown taking aim at more than 100 members of the gang tren de aragua. the raids focusing on apartment buildings where tda was in control terrorizing residents. the gang was expecting company. the targeted departments were mostly empty. officials say they will not let up and keep working to make the community safe. >> dana: bill melugin was on the scene as the enforcement action was underway and live in aurora today. hi, bill. >> dana, good morning to you. this was an enormous operation. we're talking hundreds of federal agents across multiple federal agencies. their goal as you guys stated was to target about 100 tren de aragua gang members in the aurora, area. the goal was derailed possibly due to leaks to the media this operation was coming. we were given access to tag along and witness all of it.

>> god bless you off. send these guys to gitmo. come home safe every one. >> border czar tom homan rallying the troops ahead of a massive operation in aurora, colorado wednesday morning. several hundred federal agents from ice, hsi, dea, f.b.i., atf and cbp targeting alleged members of the venezuelan gang tren de aragua. >> you guys have hundreds of people out here. what's the goal today? >> the goal is to send a message to tda that we'll eradicate them from this country. no safe harbor, no sanctuary for them to go. >> fox news joined as one team of agents arrived at the aurora apartment complex that went viral last summer when tda gang members were seen on security video with guns. >> watch your backs. open the door. >> police, open the door.

>> as the team went door-to-door they found blood stained walls but no gang members. the entire complex was virtually empty. at a second tren de aragua complex ice was met by activists who taunted them. others used mega phones to catch those living inside. [speaking spanish] >> agents used flash bangs inside and a handful of arrests but no tda gang members. stop at another apartment complex netted no arrests. this seems like they were tipped off. they knew this was coming. >> yeah. i do get the impression there was some intelligence leaks here. probably they did know we were coming. we're still coming and just because something leaks now and

then it won't stop us. >> it's the police. we have a warrant. come out with your hands up. >> also on their radar this previously deported illegal alien with pending local charges force strangulation, kidnapping and possession of fentanyl. >> get out of my neighborhood. >> activists yelled outsides agents recovered this stolen rifle from inside the man's home. guys, officials told us they were planning to net triple digit arrests as a result of this operation, possibly upwards of 200 people. ice officials told me at the end of the day yesterday they only had 30 arrests, only one of which was a confirmed tren de aragua gang member. it certainly felt like everybody knew it was coming including the targets and local media. send it back to you. >> dana: did the local media get ahead of the operation? >> they were everywhere we were.

sometimes ahead of us it felt like along with some of the local activists. this raid was supposed to happen last week, guys, but two media outlets wrote articles announcing it. it got leaked and wrote articles that ice was coming to aurora area to conduct a huge operation. ice canceled that raid. moved it to this week and everywhere we went the local media was there followed quickly by those anti-ice activists. it felt like people knew it was coming and ice officials told us the same. >> dana: bill melugin, thank you so much. >> john: let's bring in danielle, a member of the aurora city council, a business owner and proud veteran as well. we have been told repeatedly by city officials in aurora, denver as well, as well as the governor of colorado that there is no gang problem there in aurora. despite the fact we seem to have seen it with our own eyes and despite the fact that ice was

after some 100 if not more gang members. what does that say about what city and state officials are telling us for these many months? >> yeah, it's as if they've been lying going all the way up to our governor down to the local level, the people have been lied to. this gang is here. they have been here. the same gang i have been talking about for months and months and told it was a figment of my imagination and i was crazy in making this all up. they are here. as much as everyone wanted to say it was an isolated incident in aurora, they are throughout the denver metro area. their foothold has gotten so much stronger. they are spread out and they are organized. law enforcement confirmed to me early on one of the most scary things about tren de aragua is that they are much more organized than ms-13. i do believe here locally they were tipped off. we have some activist groups that are going around and moving

migrants around and telling them not to answer their doors. fortunately there is one apartment complex that was hit yesterday by law enforcement whispering pines, one of the complexes i talked about for months. those folks opened doors and said they were treated with respect and kindly. asked who they are. i have no problem with federal agents coming into the city of aurora or denver metro area to find out who exactly has come into our city. >> dana: danielle. state and local officials said they would get in ice's way. have you seen evidence of that? >> i haven't seen any direct evidence of that. jason crowe what he did last week with his publicity stunt after it was leaked that they would -- he went out there and had a tour, he made this grand

announcement that buckley will not be used as a detention ice facility. he doesn't have that power or that authority. my guess is when it was tipped off to the media that this was coming, you know, either president trump or tom homan or whoever backed off and said we'll delay it and won't activate buckley. there are leaks. i would say i have not personally seen any of them physically get themselves in the way but some of these activists are on the line and i hope that tom homan and these agents as you heard him say in the huddle to his team before they went out every one has to make it home at night. every single one of these men and women have to make it home at night. whatever they have to do, if that includes the local activists getting in their way physically or arrest them. >> john: we heard these

community activists yelling get out of our community. they wouldn't be in the community if they had the cooperation of officials. >> we have to come to communities because we don't get cooperation we need from the jails. so much easier and safer for our officers and agents to take these people into custody from a safe environment. if we have to come out in the community to do this, that's what we'll do. >> john: if the local authorities would cooperate with us we could do a handover and ice detainer from a jail. they aren't doing that and why they have to come out and do all of this. >> yeah. people don't seem to understand that. these are criminals. these are criminals being taken out of our community and off of our streets. bill melugin just said they ended up with like 30 arrests. people are out screaming and yelling held up protests in downtown denver tracking many people from getting home from work and get to their kids. you are protesting criminals

being taken from this community? and a lot of these criminals you are seeing have previously been arrested in the denver metro area. i agree, and i stand with those agents. i do think that there are sheriffs in the denver metro area that will allow them into the jails and if that connection needs to be made i'm happy to be that go-to point to connect federal agencies with local sheriffs and local people. i think there will be some that will be a problem. denver especially. but it would be good. it would be good if they could go into the jails and get them from the jails. but because that's not the case. the left wants this fear instilled. the left wants these agents in the community and want this chaos. >> john: it seems they wanted to make a show out of it and the fact it was leaked that disrupted the operation might feed into that as well. in is something we'll continue to watch and appreciate you being with us. >> thank you.

>> we're going to use every legislative, judicial and public pressure tool at our disposal as members of congress until we fire elon musk. >> elon musk, we have a message for you. you will be fired. we cannot have an unelected someone not vetted or taken an oath to protect the interests of the people of the united states. >> nobody elected elon musk to be president but he has his grimy hands all over our administration. but we will keep the pressure on and we will not allow this mucke takeover. we're witnessing an assault on our democracy. make no mistake, progressive caucus will fight. >> dana: democrats doubling down on attacks on elon musk's latest efforts to scale back the government. looking at medicaid and medicare services and that's where big money fraud is happening.

hillary vaughn is live on capitol hill. >> doge is tapping into the mother lode of fraud, they say, by going into medicare and medicaid and looking for fraudulent payments. hhs estimates there are 100 billion in improper payments made in these programs. in 2023 alone. democrats are warning that they don't think musk will stop at just finding fraud but instead will steal your taxpayer dollars. >> elon musk pretending to care about efficiency when what he cares about is taking your taxpayer dollars, taking your medicare, taking your medicaid, taking your social security, another waste is my house republican colleagues showing up because they waste their time. they won't speak out about any of these abuses against working people and taxpayers. >> republicans think that the frivolous spending of taxpayer dollars musk has been opposing

is an abuse against taxpayers and working people and their hard earned money. fraud at social security. doge posting on x the social security administration term naivetyed its condition tract for the gender x and removing that from public facing applications. it saves 1 million. democrats have raised alarms that doge is getting -- treasury secretary bessent telling fox business it is not the case. >> the treasury, our payment system is not being touched. in terms of payments being stopped, that is happening upstream at the department level. at treasury our motto is to move deliberately and fix things. >> dana, it is not clear if just firing elon musk will fix things for progressives because it's not clear if they would be totally fine with just president

trump putting someone in elon musk's place doing exactly what he is doing now, dana. >> dana: hillary vaughn i was thinking when they said we'll fire him. he is volunteering. you can't fire him. thank you so much. hillary. >> i will restore integrity to the justice department and i will fight violent crime throughout this country and throughout this world and make america safe again. >> dana: newly sworn in attorney general pam bondi issuing a flurry of day one directive. what they reveal about her priorities as the nation's top law enforcement officer. >> john: president trump banning men competing in women's sports. we have a woman here to react. >> dana: a plan to take over gaza. now the pentagon is weighing in. >> you have to rebuild gaza. you can't have -- this is the

first good idea i've heard. a remarkable idea. i think it should be really pursued.

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>> john: french president macron finding himself in the middle of controversy at the stained glass windows at notre dame, cathedral and causing a lot of fuss in france. who better to tell us about this than senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot in london. >> turns out those stained glass windows are a pretty touchy subject and causing a huge flap in france. the famed notre dame cathedral was nearly destroyed by fire in 2019 in a remarkably short time, the landmark has been restored to its former greatness and put

on show for world leaders in france but not done up enough for the liking of macron who ordered six windows over 20 foot tall untouched by the fire to be replaced by new contemporary versions by a french artist. we spoke with aides close to the french president. their position is it is all about reminding folks about the fire and the restoration in an updated way. others complain it is a way for the unpopular macron to leave his mark. french right wing leader said the heritage belongs to the french people and a leader can't sully this priceless heritage on a whim. another observer told us this. >> he wanted to leave a trace that he had sort of changed something. he had his imprint, if you like. >> the plans are going forward. the windows are set to be in place at notre dame by the end of the year.

but art and architecture groups are up in arms taking france and macron to court with spiritual barricades. >> an old saying if it ain't broke, don't fix it. they weren't broke. greg, thank you. >> thank you. >> president trump: i'll sign a historic executive order to ban men from competing in women's sports. about time. under the trump administration we'll defend the proud tradition of female athletes. i think we have a ten. we have a ten. [cheers and applause] >> dana: president trump met with cheers as he completed another one of his campaign promise, keeping biological men out of women's sport. teammate of lia thomas margo joins me now.

tell us your experience. what did you go through? >> it was kind of a very dark time. something always something that i loved to do and did with my friends for fun and that year was just kind of like a dark cloud over my whole experience. and i really just wanted to hold everyone accountable for doing that to me and my teammates. >> dana: can you give us an example of what was dark about it? >> yeah. well, we were forced to be in the locker room with thomas and multiple girls on the team expressed feeling uncomfortable with that. we were told by the administration that it was non-negotiable and if we had any problems with that, they were providing the counseling and psychological services in the transgender center for lgbt center that they brought along

and told us if we had a problem with it we could go talk to them. implying that we had something wrong with us for believing it was wrong. i just always grew up under the guise of thinking it could never happen. women deserve fairness and respect and we have title ix and the norm and what i thought would always be there. to have that stripped away was a shock. i did not know that anyone could just decide to not uphold that standard. >> dana: you have joined a lawsuit with other u penn swimmers reading a quote the administrators invited the women to a talk titled trans 101. women were lead to understand urics penn's position if a woman had a problem with a trans identifying male on her team that woman had a psychological problem and needed counseling. after president trump signed the executive order yesterday, the ncaa president charms baker said this. he said it provides a clear

national standard. the ncaa board of governors is reviewing and will take necessary steps to align policy in the coming days subject to further guidance from the administration. what was your reaction to that eo yesterday? >> i find it ironic. when you had actual girls suffering for an entire year you do nothing about it and then you align yourself with the president it seems like to not, you know, cause any issues for yourself when there were issues going on in the lives of at the very least 30 girls on the penn swim team and you did nothing about it. and it was illegal. >> dana: listen to president trump here because this could spill into a debate about what will happen in the upcoming olympics in 2028. watch. >> president trump: marco is going to make clear to the international olympic committee there and as clear as anybody can make it that america categorically rejects transgender lunacy and we want

them to change everything having to do with the olympics and having to do with this absolutely ridiculous subject that we even have to talk about this subject. >> dana: margo, there is a "new york times" poll that shows 79% of people don't think transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in women's sports. does it give you comfort this could change? >> any kind of common sense knows it is wrong and they i think are aligning themselves the right way and i do think that there is going to be change and people are going to feel more comfortable speaking out and doing what is right and just making sure that the little girls who are coming up behind us aren't left behind. >> dana: you are now working in new york and future is very bright. you have been through a lot and come through it and more resilient for it. thank you for being here to share your story. >> thank you so much, dana.

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>> john: moments ago the senate judiciary chairman grassley announced the committee vote for kash patel is delayed until next week. he is criticizing his democratic colleagues for dragging their feet. listen here. >> the democrats are establishing a double standard by forcing us to meet this

morning. last congress republicans routinely required the committee to meet in person -- did not require the committee to meet in person, just to hold over nominations. republicans extended this courtesy at least 17 times last congress, even when very controversial nominees were on the agenda. but now that republicans are in the majority, democrats on this committee are not extending the same practice to us. our committee works best when both sides up hold norms regardless of which party holds the majority at any one time. i'm disappointed that my colleagues aren't reciprocating a courtesy we extended in good faith when we were in the minority. now i will be glad to turn to ranking member durbin.

>> john: grassley said yesterday that the vote in the committee for kash patel would be a week from today. making it official this morning in the committee. dick durbin responding saying he wanted a second hearing. some discussion about all of this still going on but the headline the committee will vote on kash patel next thursday. >> dana: well, john, only ours after being sworn in new attorney general pam bondi is making her presence felt. issued a flurry of orders including prompting the justice department to block federal funding for sanctuary cities and that includes chicago. that's where we find mike tobin. good morning, mike. >> fallout continues as sanctuary city mayors refuse cooperation with federal authorities trying to get illegal migrants out of communities. pam bondi sworn in as u.s. attorney yesterday one of her first attorney general, first actions was to issue a directive that federal grants through the department of justice will be refused to jurisdictions that

don't share information about illegal migrants. the trump administration went after undocumented people with criminal records. this pause in federal funds extend to cities like denver and boss tons who mayors don't want cops cooperating with federal counterparts. >> regardless who is in the white house. chicago is a city that opens its arms to people from around the globe. >> local communities implement local laws and federal government can implement their laws and we are not forced to participate in their actions, just as they are not asked to carry out filling potholes and other things like that as well. >> the house overside and government reform committee is investigating sanctuary cities. the office of chicago mayor johnson confirmed that he will head to d.c. next month to give a statement to that committee. the committee chairman, james

comer also requested testimony from the mayors of new york, boston and denver. comer wrote sanctuary mayors owe the american people an explanation for city policies that violate federal law and jeopardize public safety >> dana: we are are paying attention. thank you, mike. >> real innovation is not clean and tidy. it is nt necessarily disruptive and messy but that's exactly what washington needs right now. >> our federal government is being fleeced by a handful of billionaires at the expense of everyday people. they are unelected billionaire oligarch. >> i am sickened by the way that the left is categorizing and lying about what elon musk is doing in the federal government. >> john: that was a hearing

right sizing the government as democrats fight elon mucke's effort to slash government spending. let's bring in chairman james comer. quite a hearing you had yesterday. democrats seem to be gunning for mr. musk. >> they are gunning for mr. musk. it is ironic they keep referring to elon musk as an unelected bureaucrat or whatever their terminology they are using. they stood silent over the past four years when unelected bureaucrats have been running our country. they've been operating their agencies without any oversight, without any accountability and they've been doing what they wanted to do letting employees work from home or forgetting student loan debt. i support what elon musk is doing and being very transparent with the american people. tweeting out multiple times per hour saying what his goals are. i think it is what the american

people want. >> john: your position on bureaucrats depends on whose bureaucrats they are. people tend to like their own better than the other ones. the democrats are taking to the streets. the kerfuffle over usaid has them worked up. >> we're hear today because an unelected bill air and his team have been given access to our taxpayer money and government. >> we know we work for the american people. we won't stand around while they pull this bull [bleep]. >> john: they are worked up. a poll shows if given the chance 56% of people in america would suspend all foreign assistance, not just usaid. when they say elon musk has unfettered access to american taxpayer money, he doesn't. he had up until recently

unfettered access to look at where it was being spent. now the d.o.j. restricted that access at the treasury department. only two treasury department with read-only access can look where the money is going. they seem to characterize it in a way that's not actually happening. >> it is not. this is one of the false narratives that the democrats have operated by over the past four years. they would all get together on a false narrative and work with their allies in the left and in the left wing media to try to spread disinformation. what musk is doing is transparent and popular with the american people. looking at government waste. fraud and abuse and trying to root it out. that's what we need. we can't have a 2 trillion annual deficit. we have to get spending under control. the polling shows it is with

foreign aid and the democrats -- this is a strange hill for them to die on. i don't think the american people support foreign aid in general. when they really dissect the numbers and realize u.s. aid hasn't been transparent with congress and find more and more suspicious transactions, with this usaid money whether it be to certain left wing political media outlets or certain left wing groups that are spreading and trying to indoctrinate people into left wing ideology. the american people will support what musk is doing. trump derangement syndrome is a virus the democrats have had for four years and now it's mutated into musk derangement syndrome now. >> john: so many targets. we don't have time to talk about it but i want to point out you have a hearing coming up march 5th at which the mayors of four sanctuary cities, new york,

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>> all options are on the table. an outside the box thinker who understands the definition of insanity, which is trying to do the same thing and hoping for a different result and in gaza, we've seen for decades time and time again this false belief that if we just try a different sort of hamas, maybe the palestinian authority or maybe once they're clear and allow

them back in and negotiate again we'll get a different outcome. netanyahu and israelis know it is not true and president trump knows it is not true. he is willing to overturn the apple cart. >> dana: pete hegseth reiterating president trump's plans for the u.s. to take over the gaza strip. israeli prime minister netanyahu is on capitol hill right now. you are seeing here a video where he is meeting with congressional leaders. important meeting there. joining us is michael allen, former senior director at the national security council. president trump put out a post yesterday saying the gaza strip would be turned over to the u.s. by israel at the conclusion of fighting. the palestinians would have already been settled in far safer and more beautiful communities with new and modern homes in the region. they would actually have a chance to be happy, safe and free. he also said no soldiers by the u.s. would be needed. he says at the end stability for the region would reign. what has been your take on this,

michael? >> i thought this was on brand donald trump. being disruptive, staking out a position so that others have to react to him and then the negotiations begin. i think it was an acknowledgement from the president that the middle east has been mired in this so-called two-state solution unable to mike real progress for decades. he said i have a different vision. if jordan, egypt, and others don't like it what is your solution? they are criticizing the details of what president trump took forward. they enjoy the position they are in now, critiquing from afar, blaming israel for everything. trump is putting them on the spot and saying what will you do to help solve the problem? you don't like my idea, let's hear what you've got. >> dana: listen to netanyahu on hannity last night. >> the actual idea of allowing gazans who want to live to

leave. what's wrong with that? they can leave and come back and relocate and come back. you have to rebuild gaza. if you want to rebuild gaza you can't have -- this is the first good idea that i have oh he heard. a remarkable idea. and i think it should be pursued, examined, pursued and done. >> dana: eyes and ears looking around the world. what are the leaders of the arab countries saying now? >> they are saying don't send refugees to our countries because we don't have the economic resources, they are worried about hamas-styled islamic radicalization furthering inside their countries. fair points but what will they do to contribute to a solution? for all the criticism about the united states and donald trump in particular, i understand they don't like some of the details. here is president trump acknowledging that the palestinians deserve a better life. he is acknowledging that things

are not great in gaza. by the way, it sort of leaves netanyahu hanging out there. he understandably had to bomb much of gaza to get hamas, but here he is saying these people deserve a better life. so there is stuff to work with in what the president has recommended and i think people are going to have to react to it for some time and i believe the president will begin to get concessions because he staked out some serious territory from the get go. >> dana: my last question is has hamas said anything and could we expect the hostage releases planned and the cease-fire will continue? >> i'm worried about that. i don't want hamas to use this as an excuse to pause the hostage release. this phase one we're in is supposed to go to about march 2nd. we're not clear exactly whether hamas will allow this to proceed. they want a promise that israel's war against hamas will end in order to proceed with

additional hostage release. netanyahu, you heard him this week said i have to be able to destroy completely eradicate hamas. so i think we've kicked the can down the road a little bit. we started the hostage release. we're in the middle of phase one. we still have to get over some hurdles and finesse some issues in order to get the rest of the hostages out. >> dana: thank you for joining us today and keep in touch. lots going on. thanks. john. >> john: all right, security prep wrapping up ahead of the super bowl in new orleans. how local, state and federal agencies are all working together to keep fans safe. ♪ empower ♪ so handsome. oh, i can't buy this.

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the president signed an order to keep biological men out of women's sports. plus a massive federal raid of illegal violent gang members. agents believe the targets were tipped off and border czar tom homan is here to talk with me about it in detail. senator ashley moody and kellyanne conway, "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> dana: scary moments on a flight to denver. witnesses say a man started kicking and punching a window. he apparently hit it hard enough to crack the glass. that prompted several other passengers to tackle him. they restrained him using zip ties and shoelaces and the plane landed safely. there was another airplane scare this time on the ground. a japan airlines jet collides with a parked delta jet on the taxiway at seattle airport. you can see right there the wing

of the japan airline plane impaled the tale of the delta jet. an expensive fix. no one was hurt. >> no matter who the president is, i'm excited because it's the biggest game of my life, you know? having the president there, you know, is best country in the world and it would be pretty cool >> john: travis kelce is pumped up. security will be tight. garrett tenney is live along the banks of the big muddy in the big easy. >> you remember after that attack the government said it would send additional resources to secure the super bowl. anything local officials asked for they're getting. cbp agents on the mississippi river, blackhawk helicopters, bearcats and sniper and anti-drone teams.

more than two dozen federal agencies taking part in this operation along with more than 2,000 law enforcement officers. the goal is to have a presence on every street downtown and in the french quarter where we rode along with a special agent in farming carpooling for homeland security leading the federal coordination for the big game to see some of the changes and security plans officials made after the new year's attack. >> why is it that folks should feel safe coming to super bowl? >> i can tell you there have been significant changes made to the french quarter and the downtown area. there has been this expanded security zone in the french quarter that the city and state put in place with additional barricades. >> given all of those extra federal resources brought in delong says this will be the most secure super bowl in history and new orleans is the safest place in the country that you could be this week and allow fans to just worry about the big game.

john. >> john: that's the way we like it. worry about the game. a lot of people have a lot riding on it. thank you. this year new orleans will surpass miami as the city that hosted the most super bowls. tied at 11, now make it 12 for new orleans. >> dana: ghe got the assignment of the week. the super bowl will have a bret baier pre-game interview with president trump. and he said he was going to try to record it with him as close to the game as possible. covering this president things can change in a second. looking forward to that interview and the game and thank you for being with me, john. >> john: good forsee you. >> dana: "the faulkner focus" is next. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert. president trump has illegal immigrants in this country on the run. reports some are on the mo