>> drama in d.c. the house and the senate are on a collision course about how to

move forward with president trump's agenda. republican lindsey graham says the senate is set to markup a budget resolution next week. mike: the house is hunkering down to finalize its plans and some are still at odds. we'll ask kevin hern how he sees it shaping up. i'm mike emanuel. anita: great, mike. i'm anita vogul in new york. we begin with lucas tomlinson live at the white house with a rush to pass the president's agenda. >> good morning, anita. it was busy on thursday when about two dozen house republicans came here to the white house to meet with president trump. the meeting lasted about five hours. president trump said the meeting went well. he told lawmakers that do not touch the following. >> i listened for a little while and then i said why don't we just balance the budget? why don't we cut certain things

and balance the budget? don't touch social security, don't touch medicare, medicaid, just leave them alone. >> now, that's about half the budget. medicare, medicaid and social security, anita. now, trump met with republican senators to discuss the budget at mar-a-lago last night. and house speaker mike johnson says he'll work through the weekend. democrats, hakeem jeffries and democrats are impatient. and democrats tried to enter the department of education in washington to protest what president trump is looking at possibly scrapping the agency, of course, established in 1979. maxine waters after being told she couldn't enter blasted the security guards saying let the children that -- let his children know he was standing in the way all the children, talking about the security guard. and your guest on the last hour, had a different take. former press secretary for donald trump during his first term said one out of every

three eighth graders can't read, where is the democratic outrage there? president trump will be headed to the super bowl, the first sitting president to watch the super bowl. before that, sometime today, he'll be sitting down with our own bret baier, that pregame interview airing at 3 p.m. tomorrow on the fox network. anita. anita: i'm sure there will be tough interviews there. mike: and will they be able to pass the president's agenda. and the chairman, welcome, congressman. >> good to be with you. you spent more time in the speaker's house on thursday night. >> it's probably the most

productive day since i've been in congress. for the democrats, for keeping the taxes low for americans as we push out the reconciliation package. we have every intention of voting on the budget resolution package this week. we had a great day on thursday, working through things. a couple of small boxes to check with the president this weekend on those. mike: how critical to hear directly from president trump about what he wants? >> it's very critical. when you actually get the staff out of the way and the cell phones put down, you're talking how serious this is. and i'll tell you the seriousness of it. middle class family making $75,000 a year starting next year in 2026, if we don't get this pushed through, are going to see anywhere from 2 to $3,000 increase in their tax bill every year, that's serious. every democrat should support.

this is important, the president talked about the importance of the national security package covering, you know, making sure we're securing the border and making sure our military has the funds it needs to address the issues with china and russia. mike: senate budget chairman lindsey graham who is golfing with president trump today is talking potentially the senate going first. are you worried about that? >> well, i think as you saw last week, it was sort of a backup plan. i think the only reason that senator graham who was former house member many years ago back when you actually passed budgets and you got things done and you actually cared about trimming the size of the government as bill clinton did and then al gore who said there was ridiculous spending in the budget. bill clinton cut 273,000 government jobs and lindsey graham knows how important it to get going on this and we talked about it thursday and a quick path forward for the house and we want to make sure that we get out there and lead like we're supposed to be, like

the american people said on president's trump's agenda. mike: you have a historically slim majority. so what's your pitch to rank and file members to get on board? >> well, if we do one big beautiful bill as we're pushing forward to do then not everybody is going to get everything they want. this isn't a 30 vote majority like we saw back in the '90s or even early 2000's this is one or two on any given day. we're working hard and had all different sides trying to push forward. we know how complicated it is to balance the budget as president trump alluded to. i can tell you right now the difference between this administration and the previous administration, president trump has every i think tension of shrinking the size of government. we're seeing that with doge and with the others that he's wanting to curtail, cut or combine. in a short period of time i believe we'll get it done. mike: i know, obviously raising the debt ceiling, government's ability to borrow money is a

difficult vote for republicans to take. do you expect that will be in any big, beautiful bill to be sent to the president's desk? >> we'll see how it works out. and it's for bills we've incurred. you have to pay for what you spent and a path forward to get our fiscal house in order. you can't have two trillion dollar deficits and debt and think you're doing the right thing. the presidents understand that and i believe the republicans understand that as well as i visited with some yesterday. we're in lock step on this, and when we why in the speak's office we had senator crapo and others on conference calls and we're moving this together and working hard together and i think that's what the most important issue is here that we're moving this together, not one side or the other, and then hoping somebody else comes along. mike: you mentioned your colleagues in the united states senate. obviously, the senate spending a whole lot of time confirming

and vetting the trump cabinet. i'm curious what your observations are in terms of those who have been confirmed and those still to be confirmed to the trump cabinet? >> well, again, i think what's important about these folks, they're wanting to get the dei wokeness that the biden misfits put in place whether our military or transportation or, you in, fbi, doj, the list going on and i think that's what you're seeing time and time again, you're seeing corporations across the country removing their dei wokeness for the majority of them. you're seeing universities do that, getting back to actually educating students how to be engineers and electricians or whatever part of the world they want to go into, but the issue is here, is that we have people in the cabinet that want to bring national security to bear and economic security back to the american people and the inflation we've seen under joe biden, it's still hurting americans every single day and the president wants to get this

under control and going to do it with his cabinet members. mike: house republican policy chair, kevin hern, the great state of oklahoma. best of luck for your work. >> thanks, mike. mike: anita. anita: well, to asheville, north carolina, or chs kristi noem is getting a firsthand look at recovery efforts after hurricane helene devastated the area last year. and later, the doj putting the colleges on notice, leo terrell on the new anti-semitism task force coming up next. eck in t0 it's 2:55. i know. is this what he's doing now? as your host, i have some rules. first, no showers longer than 5 minutes. this isn't a spa. no games. no fun. yes, coach. (♪) meanwhile, at a vrbo... when other vacation rentals make you share your turf with a host,

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>> homeland security secretary kristi noem headed to asheville, north carolina where she'll meet with helene survivors and volunteers and the area still feeling the impacts of last year's devastating storms. madison scarpino has the details. >> hi, mike. it's been almost five months since helene destroyed parts of north carolina, still today thousands remain homeless and massive destruction in the area and secretary nome is getting is firsthand look at that today. she's about to visit a debris site after being briefed on water debris removal according to the dhs. that's a key part in the cleanup process there.

she saw some of the damage in the region, met with your is survivors and samaritan's purse. they're doing a lot of relief work for survivors. today's visit comes as president trump and some of his administration are criticizing fema for its response to helene. during his last visit to north carolina, he said he's considering getting rid of the agency altogether. here is the president just a few days ago. >> fema under biden was a disaster, they were almost not even-- they essentially weren't even there. >> fema says it's continuing to help over 150,000 families in north carolina through funding, temporary housing and other basic needs. local, state and federal lawmakers say it's going to take a massive amount of funding to fully recover, and representative pat harrigan says the long-term major issue

is infrastructure. here he is yesterday. >> you can't live a normal life without roads, bridges, trains moving through, where you live. i think that's one of the key focus points of tomorrow's visit is really wrapping around at the federal level, their mind around what is happening. >> mike, we've been to western north carolina several times post helene. i can tell you that there are roads there with potholes the size of half a football fields, some of them are completely split in half. we do know that transportation secretary sean duffy will be there on monday and we're expecting to hear live from secretary nome any minute now. mike: madison, thanks very much. anita: all right, next to israel where more hostages are reuniting with family today after more than a year in hamas capt captivity, but iz israeli

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>> welcome back. secretary of state marco rubio is headed to the middle east next week after president trump announced major plans for the region. from a takeover of the gaza strip to renewed nuclear talks with iran. stephanie bennett is tracking this from our london bureau, hi, stephanie. >> marco rubio has a jam packed itinerary in less than a week. a lot to discuss and a lot at stake. secretary of state marco rubio will be travelling to the munich conference in germany before heading to israel, united emirates, qatar and sawed raub february 13th through the 18th and his visit comes at a pivotal time as

israel and hamas are staging a cease-fire. earlier this week president trump suggested the u.s. take control of the gaza strip to rehabilitate to livable location. under that palestinians would be temporarily relocated in order to successfully rebuild. it's something that rights groups fear and palestinians fear being driven from their homes. while in a news conference in the dominican republic, rubio says that president trump has offered to be a part of the solution. >> i think that president trump has offered to go in and be a part of the solution. if other countries want to step forward and do it, that's great. no one seems to be rushing forward. a lot of countries like to express concern about gaza and palestinian people, but few are willing in the past to do anything concrete about it. >> meanwhile, the cease-fire

seems to be holding, hamas handed over three israeli hostages and israel freeing 183 palestinian prisoners some of which are convicted of being involved in attacks that killed dozens of people. the three men appeared thin, weak, and pale in worse condition than 18 previously released in the last few weeks. for now, prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the sight of the frail hostages was shocking and would be addressed. anita. anita: all right. stephanie bennett live for us in london. thank you. >> anita, for more now on all of this, democrat house armed services ranking member smith. congressman, welcome. >> i appreciate it. mike: what is your reaction to the hostages looking frail being released and returned to israel? >> it's a good step that some of the hostages are being released and points out the

devastating impact of the war of the last, gosh, 16 months now and the need to stop it. the humanitarian crisis is overwo overw overwhelming. and we need to work on the deal that's cut and make sure the next steps get put in place. >> prime minister benjamin netanyahu was in washington for several days this week. what is your assessment of the coordination between him and the situation in the middle east? >> it seemed fairly close. i think that clearly netanyahu and president trump get along well and will work together. that leads to the more difficult question. what the president proposed is, while it's horrible policy. first of all, we're not supposed to be spending a whole lot of money overseas apparently. it's going to be billions of dollars to rebuild gaza. is the u.s. really going to foot that bill? second of all the u.s. shows up in gaza we are going to have an insurgency that it going to

make iraq and afghanistan look easy. how are we planning to have our military contain hamas in the insurgency. i understand that people say that president trump says things and we shouldn't pay attention until we have to, but it's important for people to speak out about those challenges that i just mentioned and not let this idea sort of bear fruit. the cost would be overwhelming. the fight to be overwhelming for the u.s. military so i hope people will at least make those points so we can think through what we really ought to do with israel in the middle east going forward. mike: on the taking ownership of gaza, in an unorthodox way reveal that saudi arabia, egypt and jordan don't want the palestinians living in their countries? >> well, i don't think you needed -- i don't think you needed an unorthodox way, any way to make that point. i think everyone's been very clear on that for a very long

time so i'm not sure he needed to threaten to annex gaza to make it clear that the arab world doesn't want a whole bunch of palestinian refugees so i don't agree with that point. that's been very clear. what we need to do. we need to do what secretary rubio said, hold the countries what we've been saying for years. saudi arabia, egypt, bahrain. i've met with king abdullah several times with this discussion, they want to get an alternative to both hamas and the palestinian authority. they see leaders in palestine that they work with that can be a future for the palestinian people. i think we should work with king abdullah. work with mbs and other leaders in the region to have them, have the arab world take the lead.

yes, we should put pressure on them. i'm not sure musing the u.s. occupying gaza is the right way to do that. mike: okay. to iran. yesterday there are reports that hamas leaders were in tehran to congratulate the regime on the anniversary of the 1979 revolution. what about the cancer that is iran in the middle east? >> it's the single biggest-- sorry, it's one of the two biggest problems i should say the least. iran is destabilizing a half dozen countries around it. now, progress has been made. hezbollah has been weakened, hamas has been weakened and the collapse of assad, and that should be part of the focus. if we could get the peace deal with the arab states and the u.s. and israel that would be a real check on iranian power if we can help put in a legitimate government in syria and support the government that's there now, that weakens iran and then

president trump has talked about negotiating directly with iran and i think that's a good idea. i think we need to have that conversation, we need to push iran back to being focused on iranians and their own people. their economy is in shambles. they have a horrible government and meanwhile, we're funding the houthis and destabilizing the region. yes, i think that president trump should negotiate with them on certainly the nuclear program and on those broader issues. mike: the top democrat on the house armed services committee. thanks so much. >> thanks for the chance. anita: mike, for more on the fallout as in the region as president trump prepares plans for the u.s. to take over gaza. with me now is former u.s.s. cole commander kirk lippold. commander lippold, thank you for joining us today. i want to remind our viewers

you were in command of the u.s.s. cole back in 2000 when the ship was attacked by al-qaeda terrorists, and 17 people were killed. so you certainly know the dangers of the region. you've been listening. you were listening to adam smith with his view on this potential takeover of the gaza strip by the u.s. he said the cost would be overwhelming, the cost financially and to the u.s. military and he also said it would be a bigger debacle than afghanistan. do you agree with that? >> okay. we seem to be having a little problem with commander lippold's microphone. we are going to work to get that resolved. in the meantime, mike, let me bring you in here on this. that was a really interesting

discussion that you had with congressman adam smith. he had said it would be a bigger debacle than afghanistan for the u.s. to take over the gaza strip and he talked about the costs financially and to the u.s. military. so there's certainly going to be a lot of debate on this and two clear sides on it for sure. >> i wasn't surprised to hear he wasn't crazy about the president's tactics when it comes to gaza, but it was interesting though to hear him talk about negotiating with the iranian regime and trying to make some progress there. a lot of concerns here in washington how close the iranians are to nuclear weapons. anita: big concerns. we'll go back to commander lippold. i believe we fixed his microphone and we look forward to hearing from him on this. hi, commander. i know you were able to hear my question, but you have extensive knowledge of the dangers in the region. do you agree with congressman adam smith this could be an abecle bigger than afghanistan?

>> i don't. when you listen to the congressman, with all due respect, points on iran with excellent. when it comes to gaza, he takes it in literal fashion and as typical people try to point out everything wrong with that which means they are going to be comfortable with the status quo that ultimately led up to the debacle of october 7th and the horrific human catastrophe that's happened in israel and to the palestinian people because of hamas since then. the bottom line is when president trump proposed gaza that we could go in and rebuild what used to be an absolutely beautiful rivera by the sea when they took over, people are capable of thinking outside the box. frankly, the region's countries, saudi arabia, egypt, need to get engaged to solve it

and need to do it in a manner that israel will recognize as having a right to exist and in peace and that they need to take over the security to ensure that groups like hezbollah and hamas are no longer empowered by iran to attack that country or other u.s. national security interests throughout the middle east. anita: quickly, i want to get to another topic, but you believe that the u.s. can play some role there in the gaza strip? it's basically in ruins now. the people have nowhere to go. they need someone to come in there and do something, right? >> absolutely. i think that what the united states could bring to the table on this is especially our ability to rebuild, to reconstruct. all you have to do is look back in history at what we did with the marshall plan in rebuilding europe post world war ii and the success it represents today. we can do the same when it comes to gaza. it's not necessarily going to involve u.s. troops being there

as the congressman referred to, but instead you could have other countries in the region providing military stability necessary to ensure that hamas does not rise again, does not have a role in the government there and that, in fact, can rebuild with the billions of dollars that are going to be necessary to do it. anita: okay. i've got 15 seconds left for you, but i want to ask you about possibility of talks with iran. we heard from the supreme leader that it would be unwise, but didn't completely rule it out. do you think there will be nuclear talks with iran? >> i think it is. but the snap back sanctions need to be put back in place and iran needs to know there is result. if you head to enrichment you will be headed toward war and, forced on them by united

states, israel and our allies. anita: thank you for sticking with us. appreciate your point of view. thank you. >> good to see you. mike: the trump administration taking a stance on faith as the justice department makes plans to combat anti-semitism. new doj leo terrell on what he's hoping to accomplish next.

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i believe it's your first television interview since leaving fox news. we're happy to have you on the program. thanks for coming. >> i left fox news for a job in my opinion, the greatest president a chance to serve this country and working with an attorney general pam bondi in eliminating this dual system of justice and providing justice in this country again. anita: leo, tell us about the task force coordinated under the auspices of the doj's civil rights division. what's the goal here? >> very simple, anita. everyone in the country saw what happened in the last three or four years, jewish-americans were ignored by the government gover officials and couldn't go to school without being harassed

across this country. and pam bondi has created a task force and i'm happy to head that task force. we are going to use every tool in the toolbox. civil, criminal, activities to stop the harassment of jewish students. that means we are going to take criminal action, we're going to cut off funding and do everything and formulating that right now. anita: to your point. we all remember what we saw on college campuses, columbia university to ucla and i believe we have the video where jewish students were literally barred from going to class by pro-palestinian protesters, in some cases pro-hamas protesters. there you go. look at that. no one seemed to be doing anything about it and we heard very little from the last administration on why this was so wrong. how is this going to change now? >> you heard crickets from the last administration and in those protests i was embarrassed to see my law

school, ucla, allow this type of harassment go on. columbia university how it's going to stop, it's simple, we are going to cut off their funding and criminal activity against those protesters and alert blue cities that allow this, you have to get activity involved. this is the mission that pam bondi have given me to proceed with and we have the education department, health and human services involved. this is a joint task force to stop this. and i would tell the jewish community, help is on the way because pam bondi wants to make sure that everyone is treated fairly in this new department of justice and that's what we're going to accomplish. anita: the jewish community still very concerned about the way jewish students, jewish people in general, have been treated in this country over the last year. i want to bring your attention and put up on the screen some statistics from a brand new study that's coming out. this is from the american judiciary committee. they're going to publish a

study later this week. here is some of it, the state of anti-semitism in america. 90% of american jews, they say they believe that anti-semitism has increased since the october 7th tragedy. 61% say anti-semitism has increased a lot, and then look at this next statistic here, 77% of american jews, they feel less safe in the u.s. according to the study. leo, when you look at these numbers, these numbers are underwhelm being. overwhelming. >> those numbers by fbi numbers that i've seen that october 7th massacre is the situation that prompted these increased numbers, but i can't stress it enough. this is going to stop immediately because the department of justice, again, pam bondi said that everything that we have to use to stop this and deter this conduct is

going to happen and it's going to happen now and i tell you right now that is a joint task force by all agencies in the government to stop anti-semitism. anita: leo, while i have you here, president trump says he is going to create a white house faith office and pam bondi to lead on what he calls anti-christian bias. >> one of the greatest things about this country is the fundamental right of free expression and freedom of religion. what's happened in the last three, four years, christians and catholics have been basically attacked by this government and we are going to stop it and that's why president trump tasked pam bondi to take care of it. knowing pam, we'll use all the tools in the toolbox to address this bias against christians,

catholics, everyone should be treated fairly and that's why i'm proud to work in the department of justice. anita: leo terrell in his first interview after his position. >> thanks for having me. anita: mike. mike: coming up, major snowstorms slamming the northeast and midwest. good time to hunker down and tune into the big game, right, garrett? >> absolutely, mike. even here in new orleans where the high is 79, more than 100,000 fans have shown up for what officials say will be the most secure super bowl in history. we'll take you up in an f-15 fighter jet to show you how coming up. you want to do is spend casht g just to see if you qualify for a home loan. yet, some lenders charge you hundreds of dollars in upfront fees just to apply. they keep your money even if they turn you down. call newday. unlike other lenders,

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♪ >> back to the big easy where final preparations are underway for the big game. kansas city chiefs and the philadelphia eagles 6:30 p.m. eastern on fox. to garrett tenney in new orleans. >> yeah, mike, as fans are enjoying the game tomorrow the louisiana air national guard will be busy protecting the

skies against any threats on the super bowl and this week, we got exclusive access to join them on a training exercise for that mission in an f-15. today we're training for sunday's big game with major robert "nomad "shine of the 122nd fighter squadron. >> we train for this all year just like the teams that are flaying. >> and the 30 mile nautical lockdown of the air space around new orleans for the super bowl in his f-15 fighter jet. this exercise highlights a worse case scenario, a plane flying in restricted air space headed to the super dome and not responding to radio calls. >> you're trespassing on a restricted area. >> after maneuvers at high

speeds, a trio of armed planes get the pilot's attention and firmly glided them in a different direction. norad's protection comes a month after the new year's eve terrorist attack and they make sure that nothing like that happens again. >> we have a layered approach to protect the super bowl. rest assured we're protecting the skies so you can watch the game. >> apparently going supersonic and breaking the sound barrier experiencing 6g's of force is their idea of taking it easy on me. and it shows how good the men and women are doing, and keeping us safe every day, including tomorrow on the super bowl sunday. mike: garrett tenney with the best assignment of the weekend. thank you very much. ahead of the big game, catch the big interview. bret baier's exclusive sit-down

with president trump tomorrow, 3:00 eastern, on your local fox station. you don't want to miss it, anita. anita: i'm sure there will be news to come out of that, mike. well, anyway, millions of americans hunkering down to tune into the big game, but a wicked winter storm is set to blast the northeast and the midwest this weekend. fox news chief meteorologist rick reichmuth has the forecast and rick, i guess as long as there's no winter blast in new orleans, i guess we're okay. >> by the way, i don't know if i'm more jealous garrett going into the plane or being able to wear a short sleeve shirt in february. it's been so brutally cold in the north and here is what today looks like, cold again across the northern tier, but it's baking down across the south, broken all kinds of records the last number of days and new orleans today getting to around 80, 81 degrees. it's going to be a beautiful day today. now, tomorrow, not as warm and we'll see some clouds and might see some showers move in around game time. of course, it's covered so not

a problem for the game. maybe getting in and out, a few showers to deal with. you can see on our satellite radar picture, everything cutting across the country, east to west on the north side and the south side of it a little bit of rain, but we have one storm here today bringing some snow right now across parts of the mid atlantic, but it becomes a snow and ice mixture for us for much of the afternoon. watch how that plays out today. starting to see some icing move in, especially across pennsylvania. i think that's the area that we'll see the most ice accumulation and that's going to cause problems on the roads and power outages as well. then we'll see the snow move in across much of the northeast and then probably that mix, that slushy, awful mess across places like new york city down towards baltimore, by the time we're said and done with this, we'll see some spots and this will be out of here by tomorrow, but some spots that will get maybe 6 to 12 inches of snow. it's going to be a bulls eye here across eastern upstate new york and central new england

swath and notice to the south side of this we've got that icing. i will tell you, anita, this is setting up for an active pattern this week, a series of storms that are going to cut across the country and by the time we get to the end of the week, beneficial rain, maybe too much in southern california, definitely northern california rain. central part with some rain and series of snowstorms across the northern tiers. something for everybody, it's going to cause a lot of problems for travel. anita: no kidding, something for everyone, indeed. 81 in new orleans. >> that's nice. anita: got it love it. well, love is in the forecast ahead of valentine's day. the new way your taste in music could lead you to your perfect match. ♪ ♪

♪ >> well, americans are expected to spend a record $27 1/2 billion this valentine's day, but if you're still looking for a date for friday, it might be those silly love songs that help you out. our next guest created a dating app that uses your musical taste to find your perfect

match. rachel is the founder of vinyly and she'll tell us about it. how does this app work? it sounds interesting. >> thank you for having me. the way that it works, we take either sync your spotify or we can have you use our profile generator and from there, we use our proprietor algorithm and that produces matches based on your music taste. anita: wow, mike, what do you think about that? . i think it's pretty awesome. i'm curious why you think that music could be a key to a love connection? >> the great thing about vinylly, it's backed by science and proved that it lowers the stress cortisol, and raises dope amine and helps to strengthen the communication in

as well. anita: i think that's true. in my case, my husband and i discovered we had similar taste in music and bands, train, sting, one republic and the script and we had fun going to the concerts. i think you might be onto something here. >> yeah, yeah, it's definitely-- it's definitely something that, you know, people-- for some people music is their identity, it's their life style and actually, 70% of daters said if they have somebody whose music didn't match with them that it would be a deal breaker. anita: wow, that's interesting. what about for valentine's day? i mean, there's still time, i guess, for people to go on the app and see if they can match up with someone, right? >> 100%. you know, the app is very easy to use and set up your profile and you can start talking music with someone. within our app you even have

the ability to search, suggest and buy concert tickets, so absolutely, you can meet someone before valentine's day or you know, obviously for after as well. mike: and really, there's somebody for everybody, right? you've got to have hope. [laughter]. anita: and music can bring people together like you said, right. >> absolutely. absolutely. i mean, you know, if you think about it, you know, the music you listen to, it's basically sort of like, you know, giving somebody an inside look into who you are, what makes you happy so we believe it's a powerful way to connect. anita: and do you have some good examples, successful examples of how people have connected on your side? how long has it been around and do you have some good data? >> yes, so we launched just before the pandemic, actually, october 2019. we have, you know, a lot of

great success stories, but what i like to talk about is there were two people who lived in the same city and loved the same music and were going to see the same bands play and never bumped into each other and then they both were on vinylly, bumped into each other there and then the two get to enjoy the shows together. anita: that's great. well, thank you so much for bringing us your story of vinylly, rachel, if you're looking for love out there, go check it out. >> thank you. mike: thanks, rachel. anita: mike, that's going to do it for us. i had a great time with you here over the past two hours. mike: a pleasure working with you, anita. anita: yes, and happy super bowl weekend, everyone. mike: absolutely, i'm mike emanuel. fox news live continues with rich edson right now. >> a