million. so far 67 confirmed human cases in the u.s. and one death. but the move from birds to cows has scientists concerned. it demonstrates the ability of the virus, h5n1 to adapt. the new version d11 is the one that killed a louisiana resident in january and infected a 13-year-old canadian girl on life support at one point but eventually recovered. now last fall the u.s. began stockpiling a vaccine officials believe would be effective against bird flu in humans. not used yet given the low number of infections. >> bill: you will stay on it, i'm sure of that. thank you, jonathan. thank you. >> president trump: i would have assumed many presidents came. i think just the spirit of the country. the country has taken on a whole

new life. thought it would be a good thing for the country to have the president be at the game. >> dana: president trump speaking to bret bare before his appearance at the super bowl. he was greeted with applause. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. good morning. the halls are a and streets are quiet and airports quiet yesterday. it's like the country stopped on super bowl sunday. we're back at it now. president trump breaking norms. shattering boundaries, barreling ahead with plans to carry out his agenda at break neck speed. it won't slow down today. the president is expected to announce new tariffs on aluminum and steel as he moves to level the playing field on the world stage. >> dana: it comes after threats against canada and mexico yielded results last no. the president's new plan now. >> we'll be announcing steel tariffs on monday. >> tomorrow?

>> president trump: monday, yeah, tomorrow. everybody, steel. >> including canada. >> president trump: any steel coming into the united states will have a 25% tariff, aluminum, two, 25%. 25 for both. >> bill: 25, give you edward lawrence, fox business. what is going down, edward? good morning from the white house. >> the president uses tariffs as a tool here. the president sees tariffs as a pay for some of the tax cuts he wants but also sees them a as a way to get what he wants out of other countries. the president expected to announce reciprocal tariffs on all countries in addition to those steel and aluminum toews. let's look at autos. european union puts a 10% tariff on every car going into that country like germany. u.s. places a 2 1/2% tariff on cars from germany coming to the u.s.

it makes it more expensive to buy american cars in europe and less expensive to buy european cars here. the president wants to level the trade playing fields with friends. he uses tariffs as a tool. 25% on canada and mexico immediately. two countries pledged 10,000 additional personnel to stop illegal fentanyl and border crossings that are happening. >> you announced tariffs on canada and mexico. you got action from both of them on border security and drug interdiction. >> president trump: a lot of action nobody expected. it is not good enough. >> not enough. he wants more. democrats support the 10% tariffs on china that blocks most u.s. products coming in a variety of ways but say other tariffs might go too far. listen. >> trump's war on our closest trading partners threatens to raise the cost of household basics for every american

family. trump cares about his bank account, not yours. he is focused on his family grievances but not your family's grocery bills. >> the president trump has used tariffs in the past effectively in his first administration. he believes that he can do it again without inflation this time around. >> bill: we shall see. nice to see you from the white house on the north lawn. >> dana: marc thiessen is a former white house speech writer. last sunday i didn't bother getting too in the weeds on the tariff issue. i thought it will change by 9:30. it was 9:50. how do you see this issue playing out and how are other countries viewing our attempts? >> this is a little different from that. in the case of canada and mexico those tariffs was about fentanyl and illegal immigration and using tariffs as a tool to get them to act. here what this is a national security issue. china dominates the global steel

and aluminum market. they produce more than the rest of the world combined. their economy is tanking and they can't use all the steel so they have a steel glut and dumping the steel glut onto the world market at cheap prices and there used to be in these tariffs an exception for other countries like canada, mexico and australia and other neighboring countries. what's happening china is selling them cheap steel that they use and they export expensive steel to us. he is closing that loophole and protecting our steel industry. >> bill: he said simply if they charge us, we charge them. reciprocal for every country. back to air force one. on deportation interesting numbers that came out. i will share the numbers what america is thinking after this. watch. >> deportations, you have been upset there haven't been more. >> president trump: i think they're doing an incredible job.

it is very tough. deportation, finding marred murderers is not easy. they're doing a great job. we're getting rid of thousands of criminals from our country. >> bill: a pew poll came out with a survey. 60% of americans approve of the efforts to deport people living here in the u.s. illegally. they have made a very important point about this. they are going after the criminals and it appears so far that's the plan and can we say whether or not they are being successful on these early days? >> they are. it is hard to find criminals as it is and harder to find them when cities are not helping and sometimes hindering efforts to do it. there was a "new york times" poll earlier this year. 87% of americans support deporting the criminals aliens. people with criminal records.

if you look at all the migrants of the last four years, people who came in during the border disaster, it is 63%. 55% majority support deporting all illegal migrants. the country has come around. amazing what happens when you open our borders and allow millions of people to come in. american people saying maybe we should go with trump's way of doing things. >> dana: there is internal cbm memo shows migrant groups might say maybe we shouldn't go. upon learning about the multi-agency force security on the southwest border on social media and through family members in the united states the migrants decided to return to their country of origin. that's the ultimate deterrent. >> it's how you close a board. don't allow people to come in and deport them when they do come in. people will stop coming. it is also the other thing important to remember, the biden border disaster has reduced support for legal immigration. which donald trump is a big

supporter of legal immigration. i interviewed him in mar-a-lago and wants to increase legal migration. for the first time when he was president super majority supported increasing legal immigration. now 55% want to reduce legal immigration. >> bill: quite extraordinary to think dana and i watched thousands and thousands of people cross the border and the gate was wide open. no more. marc, thank you. nice to see you. more coming up with you. seven minutes past. despite democrats' best efforts to delay president trump's cabinet nominees are moving through the gears with tulsi gabbard due for a procedural vote this evening. aishah, will what -- that vote will happen 5:30 this evening. republicans can only lose three of their own. the filibuster vote.

the first procedural vote that sets her up for final confirmation and watching senators like mcconnell and murcowski. they voted against the controversial candidates. it looks like gabbard gets the 51 votes she needs to get to confirmation. that's thanks to vice president jd vance and tom cotton because fox digital learned that vance was really instrumental here making personal phone calls to senators on this committee that were iffy on gabbard. cotton was setting up a makeshift war room reaching out to sinema and byrd to help bring in some of those senators. a big problem for these folks especially democrats with gabbard was her inability to call edward snow den a traitor. in the end looks like cotton and vance teamed up and worked to ease the minds of these republicans. now rfk, jr. will get a vote this week.

democrats delay the votes by talking, taking up the 30 hour debate rule to bash these candidates. >> families would be the required to rely on his advice. if families listen to him and didn't vaccinate their children. we see vaccination rates are lower in african-american children, you think about how dangerous it is to have a person who even after being shown different information refused to say what was true. >> kash patel will get a committee vote this week. all those controversial nominees they were watching, they are moving forward it looks like. >> bill: aishah hosni on the hill watching that movement there on this super bowl monday. thank you, aishah. >> president trump: i do believe we're making progress. we want to stop the ukraine/russia war. i want toston it just because i hate to see all these young people being killed. soldiers are being killed by the hundreds of thousands.

>> dana: he has spoken to vladimir putin about ending the war in ukraine. how a peace agreement could possibly take shape. >> bill: how democrats in one blue state are fighting to overhaul their parents' bill of rights. plus this. >> if he still believes there is a role for the federal government to help people get back on their feet. there is a lot of fraud and waste and abuse out there. >> dana: is fema headed for a major overhaul. kristi noem endorsing the plan as they try to accelerate aid for storm victims.

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>> dana: lawmakers in washington state clashing over parental rights in education as democrats work to make some clangs, including adjusting requirements

to allow schools 48 hours before they must notify parents if something happens to their kids. washington house gop leader saying when you aren't willing to give notification if there is an issue with your kid at school parents will question what are you doing and what are your motives for not telling me what's going on? tiffany smiley is a former u.s. senate candidate from watch watch state. so what is happening? how did this turn out this way? >> when you have a govern majority who vote against parents being informed if their child is a victim of sexual misconduct, whether by an employee, teacher, someone in authority you could see how out of touch the democrats in washington state are. they are more worried about pushing their woke radical agenda than they are protecting children here in the state. i wish i had better news to share about washington state. we're the only state in the country that went more left

instead of right. so we have a lot of work to do. you know, we just last year legislators passed an initiatives that changed the language in the law that gave parents authority and rights to know right away of the safety of their children. this is all being undone. they are undoing the will of the voters and what is unfortunate about it this is what creates apathy in voenth. we don't have a great turnout in voting in washington state. these antics are what caused that. people like their voice isn't being heard. at the end of the day comes down to protecting our kids and common sense and we have a lot of work to do here. >> dana: this is from democratic state representative who said the 48 hours gave time for school officials and law enforcement, if necessary, to get the facts clear so accurate information is provided to the right adult who is responsible for that child. here is state senator jamie

peterson, this is just incredible. listen here. >> kids over 13 have the complete right to make their own decisions about their mental healthcare. parents don't have a right to have notice, don't have a right to have consent about that. >> dana: is that really what they think? >> yeah, they do. unfortunately i hate to say that. i am a mom of three boys and i can tell you that 13-year-old boys absolutely need parents or a guardian or someone guiding them through life. this is absolute insanity. there is no common sense. there is no adult sitting at the table in washington state. i hope voters realize that it does matter who you vote for. this affects our daily life. it affects the future of our children. i hope that democrats wake up and realize they are undoing the will of the voters. it is a slap in the face to democracy and it whats to change. >> dana: add one other thing.

please call for number one for tiffany here. >> the underlying bill states that schools can wait 48 hours before they tell parents if their children were involved in any kind of criminal action, or if there was any sexual misconduct of staff. we have seen a stunning amount of sexual misconduct and sexual assaults by educators in our schools just in the last year itself. >> dana: that's certainly very disturbing. a quick last word, tiffany. >> you look as a parent we deserve to know right away. look at statistics. kids are more successful when parents are involved. clearly they are safer. what washington state is doing is putting woke ideology ahead of our children. we need common sense and leadership in washington state. i have hope. there is still a chance to turn it around in the future. but we have to put our kids

first and the democrats -- it's a slap in the face for democracy, a party that talks about democracy all the time. it's time to put our children first. >> dana: thank you you are still in the mix. >> bill: kendrick lamarr proving he is not like us. last night new orleans fresh off the big grammy win the rapper taking the stage for apple music's halftime show making history, first solo hip-hop artist to headline that. he brought his friends, too. serena williams, samuel jackson performing as uncle sam and the surprise star was his flare jeans got a lot of attention online. the pants are a viral throwback. some consider that controversial. i think we can debate maybe they look like jeans to me. i have a question for you. what did you think of the halftime show? >> i kind of enjoyed it.

i also there were times what is he saying? apparently i thought he was saying pickel ball but he was saying pick a boo. abby thought that was hysterical. it is better than what it could have been, right? i think that he had a moment and he took full advantage of it. drake is not too happy today. though. >> the younger folks in my family liked it. if it's the super bowl and a presentation it should be as big as the super bowl itself. i thought rihanna did that two years ago. she was rising to the top of the stadium. that took guts. >> dana: he has a beautiful voice. he does. meanwhile the super bowl chaos moving from the field to the streets. the eagles fans, cleanup begins. we're live on bourbon street with more.

>> good morning. all morning long we have had eagles fans slowly trickling out of bourbon street who never went to bed last night. they have been up celebrating since the eagles victory. reason for them to celebrate. this game was complete domination by the eagles from start to finish. patrick mahomes and chiefs offense never got it going. the eagles defense was all over him sacking him six times forcing two interceptions including this one to rookie corner back who was celebrating his 22nd birthday and took it back 38 yards for a touchdown. after the game even the diehard eagle fans we talked to were surprised by how one sided this game was. >> i thought it was going to be a shoot-out all the way to the end, no question. i wanted the chiefs to get emotion bar bare -- i lost a few bets. the chiefs did not perform at

all. >> what went wrong? >> we didn't show up. that's what happened. >> here is what bourbon street looked like last night as thousands of eagles fans packed the streets celebrating their teams' second super bowl victory. a handful of chiefs fans washed away soros after the mahomes magic never showed up and their hopes for a win got extinguished. eagles fans have not stopped celebrating since, including probably jess watters. >> dana: we'll see if jesse is under the table at five. he will be there and we'll have fun talking with him about that. thanks. >> thanks, garrett. >> people don't understand that jeopardizes the lives of our great men and women in law enforcement. if you leaked it we'll find out who you are and we'll come after you. >> pam bondi stern warning after planned ice operations were leaked to the media. details on that and what we're

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able to get the money if that doesn't all work out in terms of the severance pay? kevin mccarthy said when has the government not paid that's the good point. >> bill: two things we learned. they think if you get an extension and buy some time for federal employees to think about it they more get more people to sign up for it. what andy mccarthy said surprised movement he said he thinks trump has standing on all of this. so could be a fight. could go on for a time. i always trust him. >> dana: we want to show you this. secretary of transportation sean duffy is visiting clyde, north carolina to the west of asheville, north carolina, still reeling and trying to build back after hurricane helene. this was a place where a lot of people lost their homes, lost their school and immediately upon taking office president trump said we will not let these people be forgotten so kristi noem was there.

first of all the president went, vance went to the place in virginia and you have kristi noem visiting there last week and now secretary of transportation sean duffy trying to figure out how to deal with i-40. >> bill: vance went to palestine, ohio. they said they wouldn't forget about them. so far that's the case. trump administration now stepping up its showdown with the f.b.i. it is now accusing the bureau of leaking plans for an immigration crackdown in los angeles carried out by ice. david spunt working that story for us. what did you find out, david, from l.a.? >> good to see you, bill. attorney general pam bondi busy on her second week in office dealing with this fallout from the f.b.i. also promising yesterday right here on fox news to go after people who leak to the media that there would be ice raids in los angeles and colorado. watch this. >> if you leaked it we'll find out who you are and we'll come

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they're assigned to cases by their superiors. follow the evidence. enforce the law and do their jobs with integrity. >> lawyers from the agent association and department of justice agreed no names released now as things stay status quo. >> bill: the rubber will meet the road at some point. department of justice. thank you. >> air force one is currently if international waters for the first time in history flying over the recently renamed gulf of america. >> dana: cementing history midair. president trump officially declaring february 9th gulf of america day. signing the proclamation while flying over the gulf. brian brenberg and jimmy failla. history is made. you have kids. they are going to -- me night remember this. >> we put all the maps on the wall and crossed out gulf of mexico, wrote gulf of america. we have a big apartment to put maps on the wall. think about it. when you were a kid at some

point didn't you ask yourself why is it called the gulf of mexico? even if you didn't say it out loud. so it's the politics of the lay-up to me. there is no cost to renaming it gulf of america. it is an easy win and americans say yeah, makes sense, i'm good. let's go with that. >> lincoln said to me can you believe he is signing executive orders on the plane? yes, this is what people who don't drink do on planes. they work. pres president -- the gulf of america is a signal to the world this administration has ambition, thinking big. want to do big things and in doing so instill civic pride in the country again. i thought it was great. >> dana: a question about canada still. president trump still talking about this. michael waltz said this over the weekend. >> i don't think there is any

plans to invade canada. if that's what you are talking about. really what you are seeing is a reassertion of american leadership in the western hemisphere from the arctic to the panama canal and that's what we're talking about. >> dana: this matters from an economic standpoint. >> the way i read this. the president is leaning hard into wanting the make it a state. but as an economist and business guy knowing how much trade happens across the border the way i read it he is saying i want to have a close great relationship with an economy that matters because we need what they have and they need what we have. so look, statehood or not i think he wants to get to a better place. justin trudeau is not a good partner. i think there are better partners and he is trying to set up that relationship and yes it's a little antagonistic. imagine if you have take down trade barriers on both sides and they would buy more of our stuff

and vice versa. awesome for america and canada. >> get a month or three and he will get a better deal. >> 1,000 percent. when you have an economy as big as ours you don't have to tolerate the trade imbalance we're dealing with. he is not really trying to alienate them. trying to acknowledge these are the facts and we can all do better. >> dana: two truth social posts from the weekend. first one is on pennies. for too long the united states has minted pennies that cost us more than $0.02. secretary of treasury will stop producing great pennies. then this. i will be signing an executive order next week ending the biden push for paper straws which don't work. back to plastic. let's see, brian you are on pennies and you are on plastic. >> penny. i think it is possible to live out it. economists come both sides.

i won't probably raise prices. it costs more to make the penny. not a good deal to do it. it costs more to make the nickel actually than it's worth. you might have to do a nickel. i don't know that i will get rid of the nickel. here is what i think. businesses are going to adapt, consumers will adapt. people will want to make a big deal about no, this could be an inflation -- they are doing it with everything. settle down. be okay. we will be okay if we don't have the penny. >> it will be on apple pay and apple will be a bank in our lifetime. >> no business takes cash anymore anyway. >> a taxi driver loves a tip in cash. >> when it comes to straws. trump is serious about mount rus

rushmore. nobody likes a paper straw. nobody got behind this and we have no way to quantify how it helped us. turtles ate plastic straws. i'm sure we could do a better job to let us enjoy our beverages. i'm all trump on this. >> we'll take a call today. take the 99th turtle. >> dana: thank you so much. >> bill: sean duffy is on the ground in clyde, north carolina 30 minutes west of asheville during that area. how the trump administration now is putting new focus on the area about five months after hurricane helene. hostages released by hamas raising new concerns of the plight for those still in captivity. >> it is clear that these hostages don't have time. if these are the hostages that are coming out, it means the

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>> bill: dhs secretary kristi noem fresh on the job weighing in on the future of fema. president trump floating the idea of getting rid of the agency all together. noem supports a dramatic overhaul. >> if the president came to you do you think i should get rid of fema, what would you say? >> i would say get rid of fema the way it exists today. we still need the resources, funds and finances to go to people that have these types of disasters like the fires in california and hurricane helene but need to let local officials make the decisions how it is deployed so it can be deployed

much quicker. >> bill: a common theme from the president to her. fema facing scrutiny after natural disasters in california and north carolina. doge has been given access to that agency's data. >> dana: right now transportation secretary sean duffy is in western north carolina. he is there to get an update on the recovery and see the destruction. you've covered this story from the beginning. >> the department of transportation says this is secretary duffy's first official trip in the new role. he was in tennessee earlier this morning. now in north carolina. and the main point of him being there is to check out the damage done to interstate 40. the d.o.t. tells us he has a major announcement with the recovery process. infrastructure is one of the biggest long-term concerns

there. parts of the interstate are still closed. the intense flooding destroyed several roads. many parts of i-40 are collapsed and it is all extremely expensive to fix. we're told secretary duffy is having a lot of conversations about ways the feds can work with the state transportation departments to speed up the recovery process. we're expecting more details on that very soon. this comes just days after homeland security secretary noem's visit. they're doing everything they can to improving the federal response to helene and other disaster. they say the trump administration is making fema a people's agency. president trump criticizing the agency but fema says it is helping over 150,000 families. >> i want to be clear. i heard from people today that had good stories and positive testimonies of what fema has done. but we also know that isn't true for everybody.

our goal needs to be that it is true for everybody. >> secretary noem says president trump is creating a task force on how to improve fema. >> dana: secretary duffy will be on "the faulkner focus" in the next hour so you will see that with harris. >> can you tell us about your conversation -- >> president trump: i don't want to do that. we're trying to end that war. it is war that would have never happened if were president. would have never happened. but we're making progress. but i can't tell you. >> bill: could this nightmare of a war come to an end? president trump revealing in an exclusive interview with the "new york post" he has spoken with vladimir putin by telephone about ending the war in ukraine. jack keane, retired four star general. good morning. you have been our guide post throughout this entire war. welcome back here on this monday

morning. to miranda devine "new york post" he said i hope it's fast. every day people are dying. this war is so bad in ukraine. i want to end this damn thing end quote. the report this morning is keith kellogg, the general, has apparently said he will give three options to the president by the end of this week on what could possibly happen with the war. how do you see it? how do we end it? can we do it? >> well, certainly to end it obviously the two parties have to want to end it. i know for a fact that ukraine wants to end this war. so do their people. they have made some concessions to accommodate that. in other words, they are willing to give up territory to russia. the territory they are currently occupying. russia doesn't want to enter into negotiations right now. i think he will continue to talk to the president maybe even meet

with the president because it gives putin significant legitimacy to be dealing with the world's number one super power. putin is far from that status to be sure. but putin is going to play tough. likely will want some concessions just to go into negotiations. i think we all have to know and recognize -- i know the president knows it -- that a cease-fire and some kind of agreement would just be a temporary pause in putin's mind to returning to his aspirations to take control of ukraine at some point. and that's what we have to recognize going into it. the negotiations will certainly be tough here. dealing with both sides. but this is -- we're not just arbitrating a disagreement between two sides here. putin started this war. all these casualties and deaths are on his hands. and we want this to come out favorable to ukraine and future

security. that's got to be uppermost. the negotiating team had discussions with them the institute of the study of war is very much aware of that. >> bill: trump says he wants to strike a deal with zelenskyy, $5 hundred million dollar deal to access rare earth miracles and gas in ukraine forexchange for security guarantees. we'll see how that develops. another topic on gaza. roll this air force one, another question on that last night before the big game. >> president trump: i'm committed to buying and owning gaza. as far as us rebuilding it, we may give it to other states in the middle east to build sections of it. other people may do it through our auspices, but we are committed to owning it, taking it, and making sure that hamas doesn't move back. there is nothing to move back into. >> bill: general, is that going

to work? >> well, one step at a time. the step in front of us is hostage release and exchange for prisoners. to accommodate that, prime minister netanyahu is pulling out of the corridor. for our viewers to understand it splits gaza north and south from the israeli border to the sea. so all those troops are being pulled out of there. troops are still in the buffer zone on the israel/gaza border and gaza/egyptian bore corridor where the smuggling has gone on. that's a step to facilitate the release of more hostage. we are on a collision course here. the reason is israel at the end of the day cannot leave hamas in charge of gaza and thousands of fighters still in place to reattack again. the other side, hamas won't give up that governance without a forcibly happening to them and they won't disarm on their own.

these are the end stakes of the second phase of the operation, which obviously are opposed to each other quite dramatically. >> bill: we'll take your advice, a step at a time. jack keane, thank you, sir, for coming on today. >> great talking to you. >> dana: vice president jd vance is making his debut on the world stage as artificial intelligence raises national security concerns in the race for global domination.

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>> harris: an exclusive live one-on-one interview with secretary of transportation sean duffy. he is on the ground during hurricane helene recovery efforts. part of president trump's agenda, all hands on deck. plus democrats and their lawsuits keep flowing from slashing waste they want to fight that, too. federal employee buy-out offers, they want to fight that.

deporting illegal immigrants. the opponents are trying to stop him on all of it. voters have a different idea. they want trump to keep going. new polling. we will share it. "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> dana: an a.i. summit in paris including vice president jd vance. >> president trump clearly wants the united states to be the world capital of artificial intelligence. the president talked about this critical technology with the japanese prime minister on friday. >> president trump: our teams discussed how our two nations can do even more to stay on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence along with the quantum computer semi conductors and other critical technologies. it is obsolete in two days. >> vice president jd vance arrived in france earlier today. he is making his debut on the

worldwide stage. world leaders and focusing on artificial intelligence global security, economy and government. it shows the importance of the summit with the high-profile guest list. >> everyone in the world will look at different countries like the u.s. and china saying who will lead the a.i. race moving forward here? >> that expert tells us china is on the heels of the u.s. leaders will need to continue to be aggressive. >> dana: i wish i could be a fly on the wall there. i would learn a lot. thank you, mike emanuel. >> bill: we have to roll. >> dana: how are you doing back in the saddle? >> i was thinking we didn't have a wager on that thing last night. we'll come up with a better thing. >> dana: we'll find other things to bet on. harris faulkner is next. here she is. >> harris: we begin with fox news alert. president trump's agenda is up against some hardening now