>> laura: do you ever wonder how many pennies are still in circulation, and couches, cup holders, under your seat? maybe retire the whole debt with how much changes sitting around people's houses. >> exactly! and like i said, call bristol has some value so savior pennies if you have those, but it makes sense considering this is our culture, our culture is saving money. >> laura: always great to see you. i will go check how much change ** >> laura: follow me on social media, it is america now and forever, jesse watters takes it from here. >> >> todd: president trump will be welcoming key middle east allie to the united states after

issuing ultimatum to hamas. release all hostages by is the or all hell will break out. federal charges against new york mayor eric adams being dropped as trump doj says he was a victim of political targeting by the biden white house. and j.d. vance making his debut on the world stage as vice president attends high-stakes summit on ai and concerns grow about how china is using the technology. elon musk making his own big move on ai. we'll tell you about it. you're watching "fox and friends first" on tuesday morning, i'm todd piro. carley shimkus will be on "fox and friends" later this morning. go to madeleine rivera with more on trump's strong words against hamas. maddy. >> madeleine: good morning, todd. the king will meet with president trump as he issues this ultimatum to hamas about the hostages. >> president trump: be returned by 12:00 on saturday, if not returned all of them, not in

drips and drabs, not three and one and four and two. saturday at 12:00 and after that, i would say all hell is going to break out. i don't think they are going to do it. >> when you say all hell is going to break loose, are you speaking retaliation? >> you'll find out and they'll find out, hamas will find out what i mean. >> on monday hamas said it would delay the next hostage release accusing israel of violating the ceasefire agreement by targeting palestinians in gaza and israel defense minister says hamas is violating by postponing release of hostages. issue will likely come up today as the president tries to strike a deal with the joe jordanian k.

the president. >> president trump: think of it as real estate development for the futures, a beautiful piece of land. >> would palestinians have a right to return? >> president trump: they wouldn't, they'll have much better housing. i'm talking about building a permanent place for them. if they return now, it would be years before -- it is not habitable, this is years before it would happen. i think i could make a deal with jordan and egypt. we give them billions per year. >> madeleine: leaders have rejected idea of taking in palestinian refugees, the president said he could withhold money if they do not agree with him. >> todd: private jet involved in

crash has been identified as belonging to motley crue member vince neal. neal was nota board at the time. ntsb is investigating. group of investors led by elon musk offering 97 billion to take over open ai, the company behind chatgpt. the bid was rejected by ceo sam altman who offered to buy x for 9 billion. going back and forth. musk co-founded it with altman. the two are battling it out in court. president trump pardoning former illinois governor rob

blago blagojevich. >> president trump: they were after him, they go after a lot of people. these are bad people. i think he's a very fine person. and this should not have happened to him. >> todd: illinois democrat served as state governor from 2003 to 2009 when he was removed from office and later convicted in scheme to sell president elect obama's vacant senate seat. blagojevich thanking the president last night. >> on behalf of my wife and our daughters, we both together and our daughters, want to express deepest and most fro found and everlasting gratitude to president trump. president trump is a man when he sees things that are wrong, he rights them and puts an end to them. >> todd: and long national

nightmare is over somewhat. no more paper straws. president trump signing executive order to restore use of plastic straws in u.s. government. >> president trump: going back to plastic straws. these things don't work. i have had them many times, they break, explode. if something is hot, they don't last long. i don't think plastic will hurt a shark munching through the ocean. president biden will phase out single-use plastic, this only applies at this point to government. private sector can still use paper straws to your heart's content. trump donald j. trump moving to drop federal charges against new york mayor eric adams saying he was targeted by the biden administration. we'll have exclusive details on

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general believes original charges may be politically motivated. he wrote, mayor adams criticized biden policy before it was filed, we are concerned about pact of prosecution on mayor adams ability to protect the american people from disastrous effect of mass migration and settlement. adams faced charges for accepting campaign contribution from foreign nationals and accepting a bribe. adams attorney celebrating saying, the mayor is innocent and he would prevail adding department of justice reevaluated this case and determined it should not go forward, there is a good reason for that. today is a win for the mayor, he may not be off the hook, charges

could be refiled in the future. >> todd: future being following the mayoral election. bring in constitutional law att attorney, katie, your reaction? >> administration said he would look into what they consider politicized prosecution and mayor adams was the first recipient. this is without prejudice, the justice department will look at charges and determine if to bring them back and look at what hap happened under prior administration. >> todd: he took flight upgrades. if you get an upgrade, you could go to jail. trump administration appealed federal judge's should to unfreeze funds for federal buyout case and number of judges drop trump's policy changes.

as you might imagine, democrats are loving this, listen to what democrats had to say. >> i want to applaud the court, they are doing a pretty damn good job right now. >> thank goodness for the courts, we've seen flurry of court filings because we've seen illegal activity. >> we will fight it out in congress. fight it out in the courts. we will fight it out across this country. >> what is that old expression, if you are shouting, you are losing. i will focus on a few cases. judge blocking treasury department ability to analyze their own data, have you ever heard of anything like that? >> what we have to understand in a large degree, this is lawfare 2.0 against trump, this is the only move democrats have against lawful executive orders and executive functions. these courts and decisions being made are on dubious legal ground

in many respects and executive authority is something courts defer to and many orders incorporate executives authority over their own agencies. they can issue preliminary injunctions, that does not mean they will not lose in the long run. >> todd: take a look at the buy-outs kicks. trump offered buy-outs and they voluntarily took buy-outs getsing paid eight months to not work. they are not being forced. yet, a court steps in. where is harm for a court to step in all litigation in our system of juris prudence, katie? >> the president is in charge of executive branch and has authority over federal employees and court should be deferring to security authority when looking

at whether a president overstepped their bounds. that is dubious reasoning andide logical and pretty political. administration will keep fighting and have good grounds. >> todd: senator mike lee said the white house will prevail on every single one of these cases because of skexecutive authorit. lower judges are overstepping their bound and supreme court will slap them down and that is what katie is saying, too. j.d. vance making his debut on the world stage as vice president attending high-stakes summit on ai. at home, lawmakers considering cr crackdown on the technology linked to china. one congressman on the task force will tell us the concerns every american should have coming up.

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>> todd: president trump delivering a direct warning to hamas after they said they will delay the next hostage release. >> president trump: if all hostages are not returned by saturday at 12:00, i think it is an appropriate time, i would say cancel it and all bets are off. all of them. not in drips and drabs not two and one and four and two. saturday at 12:00 and after that, i would say all hell is going to break out. >> todd: the sister of freed hostage ronnie gonan joins me now. what do you make of the president's warning? >> i'm sorry, didn't hear you.

>> todd: what do you make of president trump's warning we just heard? >> first of all, thank you for having me and thank you for all the americans and amazing people that helped throughout difficult time and thanks from the bottom of my heart to trump and his administration. because of them and him i've hugged my sister again and i wish what he stated would be true, all hostages, all of them, all 76 of them that remain in hamas hands will be released on saturday. i want trump, president trump to be remembered as the one who saved the hostages. i know he can do it. i believe in him. and i thank him a lot of everything he's done and everything that he will continue doing for them and america is

our greatest allie and we really thank for everything you have done up until now and from now on we really need your help. we have a lot of hostages that are still alive and surviving there. we just saw on last saturday the conditions they came out with, how thin they were. they looked so pale, and scared. i know about my own sister, she was shot on october 7 ander had hand was not treated properly. she will need to get a difficult and long surgery and then at least three months of re rehabilitation and recovery and another surgery and only because of hamas it happened. we need all the help to get them out of there as soon as possible. every one of them deserves their life back.

>> todd: of course, of course. do you think this back and forth is actually all part of hamas's psychological torture aspect? not only for hostages themselves, for their families, people like you. >> of course, just think about that. they want everyone in the world to think israel is the problem and somehow they manage to do so for several months. past few days, ever since hostages were released, everyone in the world get to see what we've known for too many days and too many months, a year and four months we're screaming they are torturing all hostages and treating them poorly and badly with any aspect they can and finally the pictures show the truth. so i think that their statement from yesterday was made only to

turn things around and blame israel again. israel done nothing wrong, we have not broke any rule or decide things they want to i sa, it is only hamas. we need to remember who is the problem, who is the evil. i know that president trump chose good over evil. he chose to save lives and he's choosing it everyday to -- it is very hard. we're in difficult time throughout middle east inside of america everywhere in the world and president trump put his foot down and say we have to save all 76 hostages and to not give up on any of them. this is how i want him to be remembered as the one who saved all the hostages and end the war.

>> todd: we thank you for your time. quickly before we let you go, what do you expect to happen come noon on saturday? do you think all hostages will be released then per donald trump's threat? >> this is what should happen. this is what should happen. and at least hamas should continue the deal as it was supposed to be, without any hesitation, without any invented statements. we have to get all hostages back and to not harm any of them. we have too many of them are still alive doing everything they can to survive in the most horrific condition that none of us can imagine and trust me, i've heard my sister's story. none of them deserve what they got there. we have to save them. we have to. >> todd: i can't imagine being a family member going through that and listening to those stories and the family members waiting on word from their loved ones. thank you for being an advocate

for there's hostages. j.d. vance making his debut on the international stage as vice president addressing an ai summit in paris just moments ago. watch. >> our administration, trump administration believes that ai will have countless revolutionary implication and job creation, national security, healthcare, free expression and beyond. i believe we'll facilitate and make people more productive, and will not replace human beings, it will make us more prosperous and free. >> todd: new york has banned the app from government devices linked to ccp. california congressman, chairman of bipartisan task force on ai joins me now. thank you for joining us.

focus on j.d. vance. what deliverables does vp vance need to lead that meeting with? >> i think it is great that the vice met is representing the united states at action summit, underscores trump's commitment to keep united states at the f forefront and he needs to promote regulation to counterparts around the world. we believe to achieve twin goal of people providing protection people need from malicious use of ai and allow it tourflourish. >> todd: it is essential and existential, we need to be leader in ai, otherwise bad things could happen. deep seek is controversial app. red state texas ban today from

their government apps, should all states and government entities ban deep seek? >> i think that would be a wise thing to do. what drives ai is access to vast volumes of data and we do not want to give our geo poli political -- next generation of ai is ai that can go out into the world and act as your agent and book hotel rooms or manage your finances, imagine how destructive it would be to have all that personal information in the hands of a country that does not bear us any goodwill. to start with government devices is appropriate. >> todd: fact we have not done this up to this point shows we're oftentimes too slow in responding. with ai, we need to respond

immediately. speaking of quick action, president trump taking quick action and he spoke about new 25% tariff on all steel and aluminum imports he just issued. listen. >> president trump: this is the beginning of making america rich again. our nation requires steel and aluminum to be made in america, not in foreign lands. we need to create to protect our country's future. resurgence of u.s. manufacturing likes of which has not been seen will bring back industries and bring back jobs and make america industry great again. >> todd: congressman, do you support this move? >> i support move of tariffs to balance unfair trade in other countries and that is what the president doing, talking about sectorial targeting and directing imbalance in trade and enco

encourage production to be done in united states rather than overseas is healthy for us. >> todd: congressman, thank you for joining us, it is early in california, we thank you. president trump doubling down on push to send education back to states ands time is of the eszence. >> president trump: we're last out of 40 states, and number one in cost per pupil. we have toic maa change. >> todd: break down trump's education overhaul next.

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payments were suspended to new york 93, 59 million. city hall did respond to what musk posted and they are blaming the biden administration. here is quote from city hall. >> previous administration left new york city on its own to handle a humanitarian crisis and we took swift action to house thousands of migrants arriving every week, including in vacant hotels. 59 million went to hotels last week, this payment. do the math here. only 19 million of the 59 million went directly to hotel costs. where is the other 40 million from last week? according to city, food and security. >> todd: food that is being thrown out? >> cheryl: i don't know if that is still happening at the

hotels. we have reported on that, the "new york post" has done a lot of reporting on that. end of the day, this brings up issue of beside where is 40 million, this i brings up issue was criticism after hurricane helene that the victims in north carolina were not getting assistance and being kicked out of hotels. that was a brooke singman report. 59 million last week for mi migrants in luxury hotels, maybe divert that money back to north carolina. just a thought. according to the city, they are saying they spent 7 billion on the migrant crisis. 237 million was what they were pledged by biden administration, this was eric adams, who was indicted by the biden doj, who is likely not going to be under indictment under the new trump

administration. again, if we want to talk about the word clawback, a great financial term, we need a clawback with regard to how many has been spent through fema in new york city. i say that as someone who lives in new york tea and taxpayer in the city, we have do forensic accounting for what is upon haing. >> todd: elon musk said we will claw this money back. >> cheryl: elon musk is clawingback. roosevelt hotel may be the beginning. >> todd: not trying to rain on the trump parade, trump was elected because he promised to put an end to this. not just democrats who are saying they will obstruct him, there are deep state forces even in fema, which is controlled by kristi noem and republicans, that are still going to act in interest of previous democratic

administration, that is what we're seeing here, it is not as easy as republicans want. this is going to be a battle in the courts and need to be won otherwise our country is going to teeteron bankrupty and not get what they need while noncitizens get everything. >> cheryl: kristi noem said someone should be fired and karoline leavitt at the white house press briefing yesterday, said that. she did say that this person has g gone -- not obeying executive order, that is the agenda and this person will be terminated. she spoke about leaks with regard to ice raids and fact putting border patrol agencies, fbi agents, you are putting their lives in jeopardy. >> todd: i'll get to that with

senator ashley moody coming up in the next block. thank you. don't miss cheryl on mornings with maria. president trump doubling down on putting education back in control of the states. >> president trump: we're last in education out of 40 states, number 40. we're number one in cost per pupil, that is all you have to know. i want to send education back to states locally. we should have school choice. >> todd: american federation for children senior fellow and founder of black minds matter, de denisha allen joins me now. how does school choice benefit black minds, white minds, all minds that are growing and developing? >> -- >> todd: denisha? i believe we're having a

microphone issue. there we go. do we have her now? do we have you? oh, we're going to try to get her. there we go. we have you. i will start that question again. how does sending education back to the states and school choice benefit all children? >> yes, for sure. like you heard president trump say, thanks for having me on. we're last in pisa for education, only 15% of black kids in this country will graduate knowing how to read on grade level. you have greater chance surviving stage four breast cancer than for a black kid in this country graduating knowing how to read. simple fact of the matter, we can remedy this and across this country when students have opportunity to go to school of their parent's choice, i was one student that got a scholarship

from 6-12th grade and it changed my life. i failed 3rd grade twice and went to graduating with honors and receiving a master's degree. we need policy like this and they have been rampant expanding in state after state. this past week we had a huge bill passed in tennessee allowing for more school choice for students. it helps tremendously. there is a federal bill out right now, education choice for children act will provide more opportunity for students, especially in those teacher union deadlock states like california, new jersey, new york, there will be, they have been closing the door of opportunity for students for far too long. >> todd: one democratic lawmaker from my state, connecticut, making stunning claim about trump's education department

cuts. watch this. >> that is word that has to get out. when you cut education, you cut title one, 72,000 teachers nationwide are gone. your kid may be in a classroom that does not have a teacher. you are denying people school lunches. >> todd: what do you make of comments like that from rocircu rosadelora? >> that is u.s.d.a. there is a lot department of education does handle. congressional member i would think would know what duties department of education does handle. and covid, that was probably biggest exodus for teachers leaving the classroom and these folks have started their own

schools, these teachers went to schools of choice to be teachers because they wanted to get out of this bureaucracy, every level we see how empower ing helps entire system, teachers are taking advantage of this amazing innovation in education. >> todd: ac senior fellow, that is a football reference to the super bowl. we appreciate your time. lawrence jones will look at what is coming up on "fox and friends." >> lawrence: what is upon haing, brother? coming up on "fox and friends," trump telling hamas to release all hostages this saturday or all hell is going to break loose. after terror group said they could delay next release. the father of one american hostage still in gaza is speaking out. could noncitizens become new york city voters?

mike lawler on the decision and what it could mean for deep blue new york city. we are stigmaifiying doge. why democrats allow courts to knock down the common sense solution. we have a busy tuesday morning on "fox and friends." see you at the top of the hour.

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>> todd: the 149th westminster kennel club dog show has kicked off making its return to madison square guardian after five years. fox news senior meteorologist janice dean joins us now with a special previewed from the javits center in manhattan where events are taking place. we know you love this. >> janice: you know i do. starts off with a groundhog and dogs and ten the kentucky. derby. it's the it's the second oldest consecutive sporting event in america. that's why it's so exciting. we had some winners last night. we had a went. win pet. competing tonight in best of show. we have three more groups that are going to be chosen today. we are at the javits center where a lot of this is going to be taking part. they have set this place up. first time the javits center has been a part of madison square gardens. this is a partnership. we are back not only this year but for the 150th anniversary of

the westminster kennel club dog show at msg, of course, the world's greatest sporting event is happening in terms of dogs. and i got talk to paul camp fellow yesterday. he is the director of operations for the westminster kennel club dog show here's what he had to say we are back here we are at the greatest arena in the world for the greatest dog show in the world. this is the stage where best in show tonight will be ultimately awarded so it's exciting, i think a lot of people are really pumped up it's back in the city five years later after covid we are truly back with 149th westminster kennel club dog show. events at the javits center are going to start at 8 c.d.c. a.m. a lot of furry friends and familiar faces on "fox &

friends." we will have the president of the westminster kennel club dog show join us awesome ladies from fox sports. of course, the westminster kennel club dog show will be on fs1 and we will be broadcast on fox sports and of course all the fox apps. i'm just excited to be here, todd. you know it's not very often that we say the show goes to the dogs. in this case today's show is going to the dogs. over to you. >> todd: as long as pugs win. make it happen. >> janice: oh, i don't know if the pug is going to win because we had the toys already. the bichon frise. i'm so sorry my friend. there is always next year. >> todd: i trust you. have fun out there. >> of course. >> todd: key trump nominees headed for votes. r.f.k. jr. fbi director kash patel and dni nominee tulsi gabbard all looking to advance in the process, the democrats are putting up the biggest fight

against tulsi prepared to stand up to shortsighted attacks, to attack our workforce at the expense of our national security unfortunately i don't believe ms. garkd is such a leader. >> this nomination is not just unwise it is dangerous. we are considering her for one of the one of the most important jobs in our intelligence community and for that tulsi gabbard is a walking five alarm fire florida senator ashley moody joins us now. will tulsi gabbard will be confirmed despite the pushback from the left, a party she used to be a part of? >> well, we have been pushing back against their fight this entire time. as you know the motto of the democrats have been to obstruct, delay, and waste time when president trump is trying to make this country safe again.

i believe that if the president is telling us these are the people that can help me get this house in order, that can help you feel safe in your states and cities and homes again, we need deliver that so, as a senator, i have been working with my colleagues to make sure we're delivering. we have confirmed 13 people so far. i believe tulsi, r.f.k. jr. will push forward this week. i think patel will come out of committee this week. as you know i sit on judiciary. so, you know, if they stepped back and looked to see what they were fighting, they might have a different opinion but they are so in the weeds just pushing back on everything this president is trying to do. they are not even looking at what spending he is trying to freeze. it's absurd. looking at the people is he trying to, you know, ship out of our country, many are very, very dangerous. we are going to keep our eye on the ball. we are going to get this done for the american people and get our house in order. >> todd: the democrats are obstructing. the media is promoting that

obstruction. at the end of the day, when all of this is done, do you expect a clean sweep of senate confirmations for every single one of trump's nominees. >> well, you are seeing that so far. i can tell you we have -- we meet routinely with people from the white house explaining why they have selected certain people. why they need certain people in place soon, very soon, rather than later. and i just -- you know, i think it's important for the american people to know that we are having to work through the night. last week i think we kept the senate floor open through the night. they are making us -- they are delaying us, knowing the vote is going to go towards the nominee. knowing that we're going to confirm the nominees, and tall is doing is delaying how quickly we can get this country in order again after the surge of devastation and crime and absurdity we have seen over the last four years. i, for one, am excited to be a

part of this process. i'm elated i have the opportunity to work on behalf of my country and the american people and certainly my state that sent me up here to be there anywhere senator. >> todd: meantime border czar tom homan says the doj is investigating the ice operation being leaked in l.a. and has a theory of where those leaks are coming from. watch. this some of the information we are receiving tends to lead toward the fbi. but i have talked to deputy attorney general all this weekend. they have opened up a criminal investigation they have prom admissioned not only this person lose their job and pension they will go to jail. they are going to criminally prosecute. >> todd: all that said, senator, it seems like leakers are never caught. we always talk a big game. we got get these guys or gals but nothing ever happens. does that change, finally under the trump administration? >> i think you're going to see a lot of things change under the trump administration. and when they say they are going

to enforce the law, they mean it. attorney general pam bondi has already came out and said they will will pursue this and aggressively prosecute those leaking this information. remember, the people they are going after right now they know they have information on them. there's a reason for that nobody wants them in this country. remember, if you obstruct justice, if you try to get in the way of a federal investigation or a federal action that, is incredibly serious, it's a felony. you could spend years in prison. i hope they do go after these folks with zeal. we need these efforts to work. and we need to make this country secure again. >> todd: we need accountability. senator ashley moody says she has no regrets coming up to d.c. from florida despite the weather, i will add, despite the weather. senator moody, we appreciate your time. don't forget to dvr "fox & friends first" with that "fox & friends" begins right now. ♪ >> brian: all right,