and let's have a great new orleans mardi gras time. >> where to get tickets are at the bottom of the screen. let's toss it up to new york. >> brian: i cannot wait for your show today. thanks for being with us today. >> ainsley: we watch it all the time. it's awesome. >> brian: bret's pregame at 3:00. >> lawrence: try to do as close as he can to the super bowl. that way if there is breaking news he can get that with the president as well. >> ainsley: this weekend on your show. >> brian: we have danica patrick, we have sage steele, we also have tony robbins and the great carley shimkus will break down the media for us. >> lawrence: super bowl pre-game show starting at 1:00 eastern time. >> ainsley: have a great weekend. see you monday morning. >> dana: a rapid fire revamp. president trump slashing government jobs left and right

prompting the democrats to get their freak on. good morning, sandra. >> sandra: thank you for having me. government workers have until monday to except the buy outs after a judge extended the deadline. the white house applauding that decision while encouraging more workers to take the deal. >> dana: prompting fierce backlash from the left. democrats are ramping up their rhetoric against musk. >> privileged billionaires who don't give a dam about america and americans shouldn't be making decisions that put americans at harm. >> we have to tell elon musk nobody elected your [bleep]. >> we'll see you in the court, congress, streets. elon musk is a nazi nepo baby.

>> we will fight the violations of our constitution of the united states of america. [cheers and applause] >> we will not shut up, we will stand up, we will speak up. >> dana: former house speaker kevin mccarthy is on deck. >> yesterday 50,000 people had accepted the deferred resignation. it is short of the five to 10% of the workforce the administration expected but they for saw a surge before the deadline. the judge's decision gives people more time to decide. bars the administration from further action until a monday hearing. it comes after reps for 800,000 federal workers filed suit. the office of personnel management dumped the deadline to midnight monday. the white house saying we're grateful to the judge for extending the deadline so more

federal workers who refuse to show up to the office can take up the administration on this generous once in a lifetime offer. democrats warned workers who take the deal might not get paid and telling federal employees not to accept as they try to stop the process. >> we can vote against nominees. we can bring lawsuits. most of this in terms of some of these buy-out offers. remember the government shuts down march 14th. we'll have power at that point to get a budget going on. we'll have the ability to force our hand. clearly, there is not going to be unanimity from the republicans. >> an influx of usaid workers taking the deferred resignation. the state department told personnel abroad to return home and reuters reports 600 essential employees will continue to have jobs out of 10,000. >> i have preferred not to do it this way. when we tried to do it from the

top down by getting cooperation from the central office of usaid what we found instead are people trying to use the system to sneak through payments and push through payments. the united states will provide foreign aid but foreign aid that makes sense and aligned with our national interests. >> the white house has not confirmed that layoffs are ahead for folks who opt to stay in their jobs. there is plenty of discussion signaling it. for instance, officials say the president's team is looking at options to reduce the size of the department of education or abolish it completely, sandra. >> sandra: jackui heinrich live at the white house friday morning. thank you. >> dana: former house speaker mccarthy. his voters like what they see in interviews with 20 people most trump supporters were in favor of his efforts to scale back the federal workforce and slash foreign aid. it is not a surprise the trump

backers would like it. of course. there has been so much for them to watch and be amazed by in these last 2 1/2 weeks. you worked with a lot of federal workers, can you understand some feel like their careers are thrown out the baby with the bath water? >> no. they get to take a generous offer. we're talking about half of the federal workforce hasn't been showing up for work while the rest of the country has. all they are saying is you have to come back to work. people get to voluntarily take this out. democrats are mad because we're finally auditing usaid and look where they are spending the money on. i can't for the life of me believe these elected democrats are going to defend this spending sending to other countries for transgender and other items that you see. the american public will support the changes of this. the american public wants their government to be efficient, effective and accountable. that's simply what is happening

here. i think the democrats are missing out. they will find in the polling that they are picking the wrong fight here. >> sandra: kevin, are you in favor of layoffs then if not enough step forward and resign? >> well, you have to look at how are we going to make the government more efficient? here you are, this is the employee gets to decide that they can get paid for a number more months and go look for another job. they are choosing to do that and the democrats are arguing that the employees should not be able to do that . that is wrong. we have to look at how do we make government he fish unlit and effective like every other business. the money was provided to government is hard working taxpayers' money. the taxpayers expect us to have accountability. one, they should show up for work. if they can't show up for work like in any other place, you won't keep your job. government is actually giving you -- >> dana: what about the concern some said they are afraid they won't get paid actually.

you take the deal and something gets screwed up and you don't actually get paid. one of the democrats can't remember which one in the clip we had said come march 14th they'll have leverage to shut down the government and there is concern whether the payments could get made if you are going to take this deal. >> dana, has the government ever not paid even in shutdown afterwards they pay them back. the only people saying this the are the democrats elected. they are doing a scare tactic to individuals. that is what is wrong. never -- even in shutdown the government worker makes money. they don't come to work and they still get paid. that has never not been paid. >> sandra: a lot of talk about the aviation system in the country needing stepping in. elon musk and doge are offering to do that. hillary clinton took issue with it and in a fierce exchange with sean duffy. she says they have no relevant experience. most of them are not old enough

to rent a car. she puts on x and you are going to let them mess with airline safety that's already deter orr jevityed on your watch? sean duffy clapped back. listen. >> the swamp creatures raise their heads like hillary clinton and push back and lash out even though they're irrelevant. i think democrats are upset about elon musk. in my position i have had conversations with donald trump and said i want the best system in the world. talk to the best minds. >> sandra: feel free to weigh in on the exchange. is doge, the right way to address the problems with our aviation system? >> let's think of this. the american government is asking elon musk if he can go up and rescue the astronauts. when we have a disaster, we ask elon musk if we can use his satellite system. so i think elon musk would be a very good person. these are the people who work for him. secondly, we all know that our

system is not the best in the world. that we've been trying to upgrade it and have not. we should take this moment in time with this disaster, with losing these families, this should never, ever happen again. you've got sean duffy on the job for one day. he realizes the technology is behind. i think hillary clinton is extremely wrong in this case. other countries have better technology when it comes to flying your plane and following your plane moving in. america should have the very best technology and i would actually look to the person that we ask to go rescue our astronauts to help us with it. >> dana: you fly a lot. we all do. we all want that system to be really good. thank you so much. jobs day, the new report just released capturing a snapshot of the economy president trump is inheriting. it only added 143,000 jobs at 26,000 fewer than expected. the unemployment rate ticked

down to 4%. let's get to fox business edward lawrence live at the white house. >> really a dismal report when you look at what was expected in this jobs report. this data is collected in the first two weeks of january. it does truly reflect the last weeks of the biden administration. it is what the federal reserve calls a noisy report because each year the labor department does a benchmark revision of this report. in 2024 the economy added fewer jobs than first thought in this economy. basically this yearly estimate, this revision is a yearly estimate revised down because they are looking at more comprehensive data. that reset that they did of this jobs report is a bad one for the biden administration. >> i think the takeaway from all of this is that these numbers on a monthly basis are totally unreliable. we are looking at benchmark revisions, revisions to the last

two months. we have wages going up, headline numbers going down. >> the jobs are in january the government hiring one of the top three sectors, 32,000 jobs and it has been that way for the last year of the biden administration. the last three months of that administration the government sector added 28,000 jobs per month. these are jobs president trump is in the process of looking to see if the government actually needs or if there is a way to save taxpayer money. other focus of the trump administration is manufacturing. they lost for the past four months of the biden administration lost 39,000 manufacturing jobs. the proverb owls administration tried to do the job situation saying that the economy, jobs creation was not as bad as it really was as the data was saying. as you know, voters didn't buy it. >> dana: edward lawrence, thank you so much. >> sandra: we'll watching markets opening 20 minutes from now.

the senate confirming russ vought despite a democrat protest. they railed against him as he laid out in the heritage foundation's project 2025. vought is in a position to carry out that vision. >> what they're doing is choosing illegal aliens over the safety and security of their own citizens and the men and women of law enforcement who are out there trying to protect their citizens. >> sandra: pam bondi going after sanctuary cities. what she is doing to hit them where it hurts. >> stae waiting for dana perino to notice me. even though she doesn't notice me i'm glad the organizers.

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>> when these teams came together they had a belief they would be here in this moment and what they are preparing for and what championship organizations are all about. you don't wait for big moments for them to become big moments. you live those moments every day.

if you want to deal with pressure you better put pressure on yourself all the time to succeed. >> dana: countdown is on two days until the chiefs and eagles take to the field for super bowl on fox. matt finn is live from bourbon street with the best assignment of the day. >> fans are packing into the streets. it's 8:15 in the morning and in the daily calm before the storm. we all know give it a couple of hours and bourbon street will be slammed all over again. we've talked to people from the country, pennsylvania, kansas city, missouri, florida, georgia, virginia, california and beyond. some are here to cheer on the team and others have bought tickets or considering buying tickets. a handful of fans we talked to whether they are actually going into the game on sunday. >> are you going to the game?

>> i am going to the game. >> did you pay a steep price? >> i got a hookup. somebody is providing me tickets. >> are you going to the game? >> i am. >> nice. did you pay a pretty penny for the ticket? >> it's $3500. i don't have good seats. bad seats for that price. i'm in. >> i'm retired, no. we'll catch it on the couch. >> stub hub's latest data shows the average ticket price is $7100. you can get in the door for 2600. adding to the excitement and the security here president trump is planning on attending the game. the first sitting president ever to attend a super bowl. kansas city chiefs star tight end travis kelce he considers it an honor and that brings us to a story line that's hard to ignore, taylor swift is expected to attend the game on sunday and we'll keep you updated. >> dana: going to be watching

you all weekend. >> sandra: for more on sunday's game let's bring in former super bowl champ joe theismann. great to see you. you are wearing the ring. >> right here. >> sandra: i feel so bumped up from tom brady's pep talk a second ago. >> he is absolutely right. you don't all of a sudden prepare yourself for this moment at this moment. what you do is prepare yourself all year to get yourself to this moment so when you are here, it becomes a little more comfortable and natural whether you are here for the third consecutive time like kansas city is, or like philadelphia for the second time in the last couple years. so both of these teams understand all the distractions that happen but they also understand the focus that it took to get here. >> sandra: string all these together for my 10-year-old son watching the game with everybody this weekend. super bowl ads. who are you favoring, joe?

>> 1 1/2 kansas city. it's a pick em. i think the chiefs will do the three-peat because of patrick mahomes. barkley has had a sensational year and about to set a record which he has set constant records. but i think this game really boils down to the defensive line of the kansas city chiefs and offensive line of the philadelphia eagles. which one of them can assert their will in this football game will determine the outcome? we'll talk about a.g. brown and others and everything. but when it comes to super bowls, when it comes to championships. i've been a benefactor of that, the offensive and defensive lines that make a big difference. >> sandra: amen to that. what makes patrick mahomes such a champ? >> i think his -- i have always believed this.

his ability to perform when he has to make plays late in the fourth quarter. you look at kansas city in the fourth quarter and second half and what they've been able to do. i think the relationship between patrick mahomes and andy reid cannot be overstated. it is so important the coordinator and quarterback are on the same page. patrick has that improvisational skills to make plays whatever, it doesn't matter right or left. he will be forced to run. i think philadelphia has an idea what they want to try to do to him but so have a lot of people and they have yet to stop him. >> sandra: here is president donald trump's super bowl predictions. listen. >> who will win the super bowl? >> president trump: i don't want to say. a certain quarterback seems to be a pretty good winner. >> sandra: reaction. >> i don't want to say but, what? >> sandra: this will be a big

one. new orleans is spectacular venue for a super bowl. it's a party every day there. >> it's the 10th one. obviously the national football league recognizes it as well. a wonderfully contained city and the presence of our law enforcement here is impressive. absolutely impressive. and you really feel secure walking the streets here in new orleans and getting out and seeing the fans, spend time with one another, one in green, one in red. it is quite the show. >> sandra: great to see you this morning and set it up with us. i am more excited now. >> thank you. >> sandra: good to sigh. catch the chiefs and eagles in super bowl lix sunday on fox. make sure the catch the pre-game with bret baier's interview with president trump sunday at

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the other migrants face charges on drugs, robbery, assault, fraud, not to mention entering the u.s. illegally. a homeland security official confirms to fox news that secretary kristi noem is heading to gitmo later today. we'll have more on that trip as we get it. >> not only did we sue today the city of chicago, we sued the state of illinois, we sued the mayor, we sued the governor and we sued others. let me be very clear, if you don't comply with federal law, you will be next. >> sandra: attorney general pam bondi throws down the gauntlet at governor pritzker and johnson over their sanctuary city laws. >> you heard it from the attorney general there the trump administration isn't wasting any time coming after sanctuary

jurisdictions. a lawsuit hit the books in federal court in the northern district of illinois. an injunction blocking local and state laws like the illinois trust act and chicago's welcoming city ordinance. they violate the supremacy clause of the u.s. constitution. taking it a step further the attorney general directed pause on federal grants to chicago through the justice department. when chicago alterman lopez tells fox police are dependent on those grants. the border czar says don't be surprised. >> so we'll hold sanctuary staffs accountable and take them to court. again, everybody -- every elected mayor, governor, city councilman. >> governor of illinois says he looks forward to seeing the trump administration in court. directed state agencies not to hire anyone for participation in the january 6th riot.

the chicago city alterman has drawn up a resolution that reads anyone who wanted to overthrow a government should not be eligible to serve government. it goes before city council february 19th. >> sandra: thank you. >> dana: let's bring in former chicago police superintendent garry mccarthy. one of our favorite guests. so good to have you here. pritzker said illinois will defend our laws. instead of working with us to support law enforcement the trump administration is making it more difficult to protect the public. what's the word on the street there, gary? >> i think that they are disassociated from their community. all i hear people talking about is why is all this money and effort going into people who are not citizens of this country? especially the african-american

community in the city. they want to know why those resources weren't put into those communities instead of putting it into harboring people who are not citizens of this country. i personally believe that we should be a welcoming country but there is a process. you can't just walk into the country. we know what it has done with fentanyl. >> dana: bring up chicago alderman lopez seems to get it. watch here. >> i think the mayor is listening to the constituents he cares most about. the hyper liberal white progressives in the city of chicago. he is not concerned about african-americans. >> we have the ability to work with ice, they wouldn't be here. that's not what the mayor supports or his socialist allies support. thankfully the pendulum is swinging in our favor. >> dana: do you think it is swinging in your favor in terms of wanting to get this done? >> i believe it is across the

country. the election of president trump. i'm a democrat. still a democrat. it is not the democratic party i joined when i turned 18. martha calls me a kennedy democrat, a moderate democrat. i'm not sure is such a thing anymore. far left has taken control of that party and the fallout from it is happening every single day across the country. but i feel that it is swinging back. we just got a new state attorney election, kim foxx is out and a former judge is in and i'm anticipating that it will be a lot better in cook county. >> dana: the other thing that happened the house passed a bill to elevate fentanyl to a schedule one drug and close a loophole exploited by drug traffickers. when you were here before, you disclosed to us and shared your heartache, your daughter died of fentanyl poisoning in 2022.

you track this issue pretty closely. we have a cute picture of her there. your thoughts on this, congress taking this next step. >> well, i think it's good. i think it's good. it is not going to close the loopholes. a lot more needs to be done and i think it starts with the -- i'm not sure this country realizes just how bad this crisis is. i'm a big history buff. in the vietnam war over ten years we lost 58,000 americans in combat, 58,000. and in 2022, the year my daughter passed away, may 29th, we lost 111,000 americans to overdoses primarily fentanyl. and if you shoot a gun into a crowd, you will get prosecuted for recklessly causing somebody's death or harm and

injury. we have to go a little bit further. there has to be a paradigm shift. they shouldn't be treated just as overdoses at this point. i think that it is very clear that there is 100% certainty that if you sell fentanyl, you are going to kill somebody. as such, these cases need to be investigated as murders. they need to be prosecuted as murders. it has happened before. look at what happened with robe robert -- or a guy whose name escapes me in california. there needs to be another step. this isn't selling narcotics. this is poison that is killing people. and that has to be looked at more not just another overdose but somebody killed an individual. if you sell fentanyl there is an

absolute positive certainty that you are going to kill somebody and they should be held accountable for it. >> dana: a new sheriff in town at the white house and also at the department of justice and as you said there in chicago as well. let's stay in touch, gary. thank you for being with us today. >> thank you, dana. great to sigh. >> dana: take care. >> sandra: a job report day. this is the reaction seven minutes into trading. dow off 43 points reflecting the final weeks of the biden administration, the new jobs report. markets are reacting to the news. california sheriff's deputy pulling a woman out of her sinking car. the dramatic rescue next. >> i got you. ready? okay. look up.

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>> can you hear me? >> can they crawl out the back? >> dana: a dramatic rescue in a california creek. sheriff's deputy diving into the water to pull a woman out of her sinking car. she lost control driving down a rural road outside of san francisco. she was able to call 911. when the deputy arrived he broke the back window, pulled her out and helped her walk through the rushing water. the sheriff's office says the deputy likely arrived just in time to save her life. we are grateful for that. >> sandra: thank you. the big jobs report is out this morning showing data collected in the final weeks of the biden

administration. economy only adding 143,000 jobs, short of expectations, but the unemployment number did fall to 4%. markets are 14 minutes into trading now and they are finding their way. sharply unchanged as i like to say. the ceo of strategic wealth partners is here. what's the big takeaway from the jobs report? >> first things first, the closest thing i have to a crystal ball when it comes to trying to figure out where we're headed economically and where the jobs market is going is to look at small businesses. they tend to be the canary in the coal mine and responsible for roughly 50% of our economic growth, 50% of the employment of the workforce. >> sandra: i'd say more. >> probably. the last six months of last year when biden was president small businesses cut a total of 17,000 jobs over the course of those six months. that's one to 49 employees. in january they added 39,000

jobs, small businesses are making a huge comeback. the one big issue with this jobs report. this is just in my conversation with other business owners. i'm a younger of young president's organization and talking to those business owners regularly. the one issue is they were super gung-ho to hire people immediately after the election in november. 30 to 90 day process to hire people. there was a more hesitant vibe when i talked to them two weeks ago having to do with what will happen on february 1st in regards to tariffs. now that's a little bit in the rearview mirror i would expect february to have a big payroll month. >> sandra: interesting. the treasury secretary scott bessent on main street. listen. >> as i've said, wall street where you and i came from have had it great. wall street can continue to do just fine. now under this administration it

is main street's turn. >> sandra: speaking of main street, a lot of people in the country are talking about eggs and the lack there of now. a sister in austin, texas can't find eggs anywhere, costco and beyond. you can go about 30 minutes and find eggs on the shelf. the prices are way up. anybody who does grocery shopping listening to this are saying they're crazy. the prices we have here on average i feel like most people are going the eggs i see on my shelf are cheaper. >> i enjoy my eggs, too. this is an issue. two things at play. number one the bird flu i shall you've is a concern. 20 million egg producing chickens were slaughtered in the fourth quarter of last year. that impacts supply and demand. grocery inflation tends to be very sticky. not all that often once prices reach a certain level suddenly

there is more supply and less demand that those prices come back down. so that presents an issue as well. i think the best solution for us to bring down do our best to moderate food inflation is to drill, baby, drill, produce more energy, reduce the cost of gas and diesel and stop the reckless spending. >> sandra: i can't agree with you more. once the prices go up it is hard to come back down but we can slow the rate prices have been going up. slowing the inflation growth. some companies our viewers may be familiar with waffle house. example of how a company is dealing with high prices. passing along to the consumer in the form of a $0.50 surcharge. we hope the price fluctuations will go down. a surcharge on eggs. that's why we'll be trading pigs for eggs. rewards members will earn double

pegs on each egg dish. the crazy egg world we're living in. >> when you are in the breakfast business it presents a challenge. specifically for cracker barrel hopefully they make up for it with better margins on pancakes and waffles. it is tough to stay in business when there is food inflation. costs increase and they don't pass it on to the consumer. i hate when costs get passed on but there are producer prices as well. >> i like scrambled eggs with sausage and bacon. >> dana: i will take that. my minute israeli prime minister netanyahu set to meet with house speaker mike johnson and speak to the press. we could hear more about president trump's plans for gaza. we'll bring you the comments as soon as they happen. plus this. >> i got elected vice chair of

the house republican conference during my second term and buzzed around the capital on a 6'5" guys still waiting for dana perino to notice me. >> dana: hi, congressman. he will join us next.

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>> dana: let's have a little fun. a few weeks we were covering the inauguration, you remember that. the events were rapid fire and it wasn't always clear who was attending what. watch. >> we are awaiting president trump's arrival at the washington national cathedral for a traditional post inauguration prayer service. there you see speaker johnson and mike lawlor, the congressman from new york. i can't get a read on the guy to his left. bill? looks like many other people.

we'll be right back and bring you the service next. >> dana: i remember that very clearly. it was blake moore who head lined the washington congressional dinner on wednesday and had fun with that moment. >> so we're clear, everyone zb with all the tall, handsome white mormon guys in the gop who look alike. can't tell us apart from anybody. we're good. i have been a big dana perino fan. not ashamed to admit i had a crush on her in the bush 43 days and that hurt. >> dana: congressman, do you want to hear my kind of excuse about all of that? >> no, because you gave me the best gift i could have. after that clip the whole entire speech wrote itself. always hard to say be funny, you have to be funny tonight. the clip was perfect. it wrote the entire speech. >> dana: a friend of mine, black whitlock said it was one of the

best written humor speeches. they aren't easy to give. let's watch this as well. >> my role as a republican headliner is important to me, a testament how far i've come in the job. when i gave my first floor speech in january of 2021 and who asked who is the nervous kid at the spelling bee? dana retweeted it and she still doesn't know who i am. >> dana: i know who you are now and great to have you. you are part of the doge caucus. tell me your perspective what it has been like the past two weeks. >> a lot of attention on it and a lot of folks back home are having a lot of questions. my perspective on it is simple. two-fold. one is we spend $2 trillion more than we bring in. we have to take a hard look at every budget item that we have. i'm an the budget, ways and means committee. this is a process we need to go through. it is painful and it creates some angst but it is something we have to do. i want to do it in a responsible

way. on the house side we're working on a little initiative for the next few months to help prioritize for elon musk and his team. what are the areas that are the quick wins, the more sustainable long-term goals and doing it in a very substantive way. it creates a little bit of uneasiness. that's the process and we have to be willing to embrace that. >> dana: what are the calls like to your office this week? >> a lot. i represent a district that has a strong federal workforce, right? i have a big air force base and these people work hard and work their tail off doing a good job. this is not why we're in debt ultimately. we have to be willing to look at the entire budget and that's what i'm seeing from elon's team. the calls are just some angst and concern. they've been offered an early out and that is a thing in the federal government. i've seen that happen before. it is met with it might be a good opportunity. no one is forced.

the funding only goes until march. a lot of sincere questions and then some people are really excited about it. getting texts from friends saying i'm glad the federal government is doing something like this. a little give and take. >> dana: how do you feel about the foreign aid question? i think usaid has proven as we look at some of the things we saw them funding you would question it. there are things that secretary rubio has talked about in terms of humanitarian aid that make sense. >> absolutely with secretary rubio on this. when you have a priority and for the last four years you have had a democratic priority they have had the white house and senate. things get in there that are not necessary. the core functions exist. i'm in line with secretary rubio, he is right. there are things -- that's the who process now is getting out what is wasteful and unnecessary and what's core. i think we'll come to a good resolution on it. >> dana: we're showing our

audience here the doge directive and one of them is eliminating daylight savings time changes. do you think that's going to happen? we're in the strike zone here. >> we are in the strike zone. it gets a little contentious. certain industries that like the ski industry. it is important for them to have it to be standard time. if you want longer summer nights, the daylight saving times people. not an easy cut and dry scenario. it is a rough couple of days with sleep schedules and not why we're in debt. the moment now is to make sure we figure out why we have such a large deficit and going after those really important matters. >> dana: it is a pleasure to have you on the show. i'm sure we'll have you back and thanks for the shout-out this weekend. >> thanks for letting me have fun with it this week. take care. >> we are going to get back to the core function of what our

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