crowning of best in show. last night a huge crowd, lots of excitement and energy and tuesday night will be more so. i have goosebumps. can't wait. >> you started showing dogs and then you worked your way up and now the president. a great example of what it is like to be part of this group. >> it is in my blood. i showed the first time at ten years old. i don't think that little guy thought he would be standing talking to you as the president of this event that has been such an important part of my life. >> so proud of you. fox sports, of course, we're at the 149th, 150 next year, so exciting. lawrence, back to you. >> lawrence: i hope to bring my dog one day. i get the skills and that. do you think i can pull it off? >> carley: great idea. over to bill and dana. see you all tomorrow. >> bill: good morning. here we go. slash and burn. the shove el is out and they're digging deep or trying to.

president trump and elon musk digging on doge and democrats aren't happy. beautiful little jacket there, my lady. >> dana: a big theme. a little orange added in. i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." we have a big show for you. yesterday doge announced nearly a billion dollars in cuts from the department of education. the organization has been laser focused on slashing government waste and making some democrats extremely angry. >> he has turned over our country to elon musk. >> elon musk needs to keep his greedy grubby hands off of our government. >> the media is up in arms. opinion column on the hill writes this. musk is fueling a tidal wave of resistance calling his efforts to reduce government a horror show. that was the beginning of that. >> dana: senator kennedy is on

deck with reaction. let's go to alexandria hoff in washington for an update. >> when you look at the legal pushback alone not only delaying the president's government downsizing plans but left thousands of federal workers in limbo. yesterday a federal judge in boston heard arguments whether to allow the administration's buy-out program to proceed. the deadline to accept an offer to resign with pay and benefits has been delayed twice. the judge issued a temporary ruling that puts the program on hold for now. >> we hope that this decision today will provide civil service workers with the assurance that the american people have their backs. >> the lawsuit was brought by unions representing federal workers arguing the administration lacks the authority to make such an offer. the government argued it has the right to manage its workforce. so far approximately 65,000 federal workers have taken the deal. president trump says his plans should ultimately prevail.

>> president trump: i don't know how you can lose a case like that. talking about people -- i got elected on making government better, more efficient and smaller. and that's what we're doing. i think it was a very generous buy-out, actually. >> another judge in rhode island demanded compliance with his order to unfreeze federal funding across the government. trump officials put the funding on pause last month to look for fraud. the judge said fraud has to be found first. this morning doge elon musk replied to a post about presidents versus unelected judges saying we need judicial reform now and sounded off on a federal judge halting efforts to limit spending on overhead costs in n.i.h. research. >> dana: thank you so much. >> bill: on the wall over here these are just the cuts from yesterday, okay? 24 hours on a monday, first department of education you had close to $9 hundred cut with 89 contracts canceled.

then you have another 100 million cut specifically for dei training grants. 29 of those. one was aimed at teaching students about oppression and privilege. we'll dig into that as well. let's move department of agriculture. you have 9 million cut on monday. 18 contracts canceled which included over here the gender consultants in central america. a lot more in this stuff. you have to read deep into it. these are some of the broad details that we're learning. senator john kennedy republican out of louisiana. good morning. i don't know if you thought you would ever live to see the day where washington would go in the other direction. now the judges are slowing it down and may take some time to move through the courts. this is going to happen. do you believe it will be enough to exact change permanently in washington, d.c.? >> certainly hope so. here is what i see.

look, i'm unapologetically with trump and musk, among the blue hairs and opinion writers in washington we're losing. we're winning with the american people. and i think, bill and dana, it is the big picture should not go unnoticed. some people -- mostly my democratic colleagues have chosen to support the bureaucracy and the spending porn over the american taxpayer. these are the same folks who chose to support illegal immigration over the rule of law. who chose to support teachers unions over schools and kids. who chose to support criminals over crime victims and chose to support transgender athletes over women's sports. frankly, who chose to support hamas over israel. now, they think they are winning and they may be in the bubble of washington but not among the

taxpayers. when they tell me we think we're winning i said sure, be on the lookout for flying pigs. i think the justice stick is coming and i think the american people support everything we're doing. >> dana: this is the president's interview. >> trust elon? i wonder how he can devote to time to it. he is so into it. i told him do that. i will tell him very soon maybe in 24 hours to go check the department of education. he will find the same thing. then he will go to the military. let's check the military. we'll find billions, hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud and abuse. and you know, the people elected me on that. >> dana: i can imagine this is actually polling very well in america. we'll know more in a few days when the polls come in. here is what donald trump said about the judicial branch getting involved. certain activists and political judges want us to slow down or

stop. losing the momentum will be detrimental to finding the truth. you are on the judiciary committee. how do you look at that? >> two points quickly. on the prior discussion, the same people who are screaming at trump for auditing federal spending are the same people under president biden who wanted to hire 80,000 new i.r.s. agents with guns in terms of the courts. we have some federal judges who try to rewrite the constitution every other thursday to advance their social and economic agenda. we know that. that's why god made courts of appeal and why god made the supreme court. i won't stand up here and criticize the institution of the federal judiciary. i believe in the federal

judiciary. i believe in article iii of the continues. i criticize my democratic colleagues when they said after supreme court handed down dobbs we needed to get rid of the supreme court and they screamed at gorsuch and justice kavanaugh. i don't like that stuff. we don't need to undermine the federal judiciary. we need to appeal from the bad decisions. that's what we will do and i think we'll win. >> bill: linda mcmahon is hearing on thursday for her confirmation, the department of education now. i imagine democrats will go on offense in that hearing. we'll see how much is heard there. what's the mood in the hallways up there? what has been happening over the last three weeks among your colleagues? >> cliches are true. drinking from a fire hose.

fighting mohammad ali. i'm glad i'm on the side of ali. the punches keep coming from my democratic colleagues. that's good, the only way you'll change this place. i have said before common sense is illegal in washington, d.c. if you depend on washington to develop common sense it will never happen. half -- what i feel -- i look around. some of these people, you know, i've said before, it's like how did they make it through the birth canal? they're not the american people. this is washington. and among the washington pundits, trump and musk and the rest are probably losing. but among the american people we're winning. you know what? they are what counts. we will win this fight. >> bill: senator, thank you for

your time. see how it goes. wear a seat belt. thanks for coming on. >> dana: take care, sir. hamas, president trump gives the iranian terror group a deadline to release all of the hostages or else. >> president trump: as far as i'm concerned, if all of the hostages aren't returned by saturday at 12:00, i think it's an appropriate time, i would say cancel it and all bets are off and let hell break out. >> are you speaking about retaliation -- >> president trump: you'll find out. hamas will find out what i mean. >> mr. president -- >> president trump: these are sick people and they will find out what i mean saturday at 12:00. >> dana: greg palkot is live in tel aviv. greg. >> yes, tough talk from the white house and tough talk back from hamas today. saturday's hostage release fresh

in the minds of a lot of people gaunt figures and three held captive under conditions displayed by hamas in gaza. they're brushing off president trump's message saying it will free the hostages only within the framework of the existing cease-fire calling into question the next planned release. complaining israeli prime minister netanyahu is renegeing on aspects of the deal. israel mobileizing its military preparing for the worst. as president trump flatly says the cease-fire should be ditched anyway and all the hostages should be released on saturday. underscoring the dangers captors are in. 86-year-old man thought taken from the kibbutz is, in fact, dead. others did survive including 24-year-old roamy, she was released last month but suffered from a dangerous wound to the arm and months of horrible

malnutrition. her sister told us today she is on the mend but doesn't think there is a minute to waste to save those inside being held under torture-like conditions. take a listen. >> i wish -- i wish that everyone would be released together, one day. we don't need to stretch it more. >> she did stress to us, dana, that she wishes that the mass release could happen saturday but she is also not positive about it because she says hamas are terrorists. she also did stress as well her gratitude to the white house for pushing this crisis a little bit closer to a resolution. back to you. >> dana: noon on saturday. thank you, greg. >> bill: watching this, too. happening as we speak. the vice president jd vance making his debut on the world stage at this hour. he? paris for a summit on a.i. and we'll monitor that trip for news out of france and then germany.

plus this. >> your initial reaction. >> as i'm sitting here calls are coming through. we want to find out what's going on. >> dana: justice department moving to drop a bribery case against eric adams. what prompted the change of heart. >> bill: musk accusing fema of going behind president trump's back to fund migrant housing in new york city to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. how city hall is responding to that claim when we continue.

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>> bill: so this will knock your socks off. fema suspending millions of dollars in payments to house asylum seekers in new york city.

the city spend $7 billion on my grants bused into the city so far. we have more on that here in new york. what have you got? >> we've some breaking news this morning. the department of homeland security confirms it has fired four workers for circumventing leadership and facilitating a $59 million payment from fema to new york city to take care of and house illegal migrants at hotels like the hotel where we are in new york city this morning. they confirm the payments have been suspended and he thanked doge workers for exposing this. elon musk was the first one to reveal it in a post on x posting sending this money violated the law and in gross insubordination to the president's executive order. that money is meant for american disaster relief and instead is being spent on high-end hotels for illegals. a spokesperson for dhs confirmed the firings with fox news this morning and reiterated secretary

kristi noem's claims that fema can't exist in the way it currently does. that idea has support in congress, bill. >> these funds have been misappropriated going back to the biden administration and new york city, a sanctuary city, has been wasting billions of dollars of taxpayer money. >> so the city is pushing back saying it doesn't pay luxury hotel rates and the money received last week is part of the $237 million previously allocated to new york city under the biden administration. take a look at this. a breakdown of the $59 million installment according to the city. 19 million went to hotels for migrants, 26 million paid for food and security, and 13 million went to the shelter system and migrant services. the city says that's only a drop in the bucket. as you mentioned, bill, the mayor's office claims it has spent $7 billion on the migrant

crisis since the spring of 2022. now the mayor's team will speak directly to federal officials about this fema payment as right now 46,000 migrants remain in the city's care. send it back to you. >> bill: remarkable stuff. nate foye on that. stay on it. big numbers. >> dana: new york city council member. 7 billion sound right to you? >> oh, yes, we've been talking about that number now for months and months and months. it started first at 4.6 and then went up to 6.2, and now it's 7 billion. this is a very real number, yes, absolutely. >> dana: what do you think that the chances are -- let me show the spending on asylum seekers for everyone to look at. nate talked about it. when you look at the numbers on the board and think about what taxpayers in new york are already paying for and the services that have been depleted because of this crisis as well. the money that we need to be spending doesn't feel like it

should be on this. what's the next step? do you get the sense or do you have any reports that people who are here illegally are trying to get out? or even ice is being able to move them? >> at this point in time i think everybody went into hiding. anybody who is illegal. let's stay on subject on point. when we talk about these illegals at $59 million coming from fema for emergency services, this is a misappropriation of funds, as mike just stated in that segment he just said. but here is my point. here is the the rub. the people in north carolina and back right before the holiday i put out a tweet, a tweet that went like this. unknowing about fema at the time. wouldn't it be nice if we were able to take these people who are freezing to death in north carolina and house them in our hotels? but no, we're busy housing

illegal migrants. now, the rub to this is fema is paying for it. instead of it going to north carolina where it should have been going. so -- >> dana: we had a north carolina couple on "fox & friends" this morning talking about that very thing. >> it is absolutely infuriating to see millions and millions of dollars going to someone that doesn't have a social security number, did not pay taxes, is not an american citizen getting all of this money to go live in a luxury hotel in new york when people we're working with can't even get the bare minimum from fema. it is crazy. >> it is so messed up. there is so much bureaucracy in the mix that you are going to be homeless and that's just unacceptable. >> dana: president trump has only been in office for 3 1/2 weeks. have you noticed any differences yet? >> absolutely. look at this. they are taking a wrecking ball and doing what they said they

were going to do, which you are watching here. democrats heads exploding. chuck schumer is our senator from new york state. they are losing their minds. keep going, let's keep exposing this. these migrants -- these illegals that are here will get out. they will be forced out because they are here illegally. but this -- >> dana: i do want to ask you about this. president trump's department of justice has said it is recommending that the charges against mayor eric adams be dropped. lauren greene caught up with the mayor yesterday. >> we were just notified of the possibility of the d.o.j. has commu communicated. we'll find out more information. i don't have much now. i will be -- as i'm sitting here calls are coming through. we are trying to find out what is going on. >> dana: it cannot be ignored

the mayor adams criticized the immigration policy before charges were filed. any comment from you on this? >> once again we said back then as soon as he went down to washington and actually started to make his stand that he is against what's going on and that it falls at biden's doorstep with what we've got coming into new york, and i think ultimately, you know, this mayor is rethinking what he already knew but spoke out loud now. he felt safer with trump in office. here in new york he is disdained for stand up for anything middle or common ground. as soon as he tried to do something, the democrat party knocked him down. i expected this. i thought it was going to go this way. but i thought it would be dismissed, not dropped. we'll have to see. eric adams owes it to the people

of new york now to fire teachers, police, first responders that won't let go. let's do a little payback here mayor eric adams. let's get our people that were fired putting them back to work. you owe it to them. thank you. >> dana: thank you for being with us this morning. >> thank you, dana. have a great day. >> bill: she brings the heat. europe a moment ago the vice president jd vance is in france meeting with leaders from the european commission. the governing body for the e.u. his comments a moment ago. >> welcome, especially the president of the european commission and the former president of estonia who we met with when i was a senator just a couple of months ago feels like. we are talking about trade issues and economic issues and the trump administration has been very clear we care a lot

about europe. we see a lot of economic relationship to build upon with europe and also want to make sure we're actually engaged in a security partnership that's good for both europe and the united states. we're thrilled with the conversation and looking forward to it. >> a pleasure. the speech at the a.i. action forum and i like very much to talk with you [inaudible] i think the same goes for our trans atlantic relationship. optimism [inaudible] and strong bond. very much looking forward to working with you. >> we look forward to it, too. now we've made our public remarks and we'll now meet and you guys have to leave. >> bill: curious to see how this relationship unfolds. how it happened during the first

trump administration with members of the european union. jd vance was in paris talking about artificial intelligence. what he said was that the united states will develop this in a way where it will not have an ideological bent and adamant in expressing that earlier today. >> dana: more to come soon on our show on that. >> bill: meanwhile president trump fulfilling his campaign promise on the sweeping deportations. the first flights carrying venezuelan migrants to venezuela landing yesterday. what that victory means for the trump administration, that policy going forward. elon musk put a lot of money on the table, dana. now in an open feud with open a.i.ceo sam altman. how will this go? stand by and hang on. >> the company is not for sale. we're happy to buy twitter. we can talk about that. we're taking the best fibers our farm can produce, spinning it at one location,

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pete hegseth is in stuttgart, germany, first foreign trip and at a town hall. 500 service members and government civilians there and give a speech on a microphone where we will be able to hear him better and we'll bring it to you as we monitor. >> bill: let's talk about a lot of money. a big battle. billionaires shaping up right now elon musk leading a $100 billion bid to buy a nonprofit that controls open a.i. all about the future, artificial intelligence. the man who runs open a.i. is sam altman and shot that offer down. it was a clever comeback. lydia hu is on that. >> this surprise move by elon musk caught a lot of people off guard. an offer to open a.i. to return it to the open source safety focused force for good it once was. we'll make sure that happens.

but the bid for control comes amid an ongoing legal battle between musk and open a.i.ceo sam altman over the future of the organization that brought us chatgpt. after the bid was made public altman wasted little time rebuffing the offer saying this. no thank you, but we'll buy twitter for 9.74 billion if you want. that post a dig at musk offering him just a fraction of the $44 billion he paid for the social media platform a couple years ago. musk replied calling altman a swindler. in 2019 musk left open a.i. and launched his own a.i. company called xa.i. open a.i. raised billions in investments from companies including microsoft and altman wants to turn the nonprofit into a for-profit company.

musk is asking a court to stop alt man. musk and co-investors want to keep it a nonprofit and where the offer by musk comes into play. it sets the valuation for the open a.i. nonprofit which would lose control over the a.i. technology if a for-profit business took over. a lawyer said the nonprofit should be compensated in the public interest to insure open a.i. ink is compensated at fair market value. it cannot be determined by insiders negotiating on both sides of the same table. bill, musk lawyer said they will match or exceed any higher bids that come in. seems like we're just getting started. >> bill: how high will it go? we'll watch it. lydia hu, fox business. >> dana: doge agendaing is gaining momentum and getting pushback from democrats. i guess they don't watch "the

five" because they had another unhinged rally last night. take a look. >> elon come here and bring that over here. come on over here and face us so you can hear from us. >> for every american who doesn't want some weird elon musk suck-up searching through your personal private data, this is your fight. >> we're here to blow the whistle and say hell no, we'll shut down the elon musk operation. >> elon musk needs to keep his grubby, greedy hands off of our government. >> we will see you in congress and the courts and in the streets. >> dana: i don't know if they need to fire pollsters or go back to the drawing board. this does not seem to be working for them, charlie. >> yeah. even from sort of a professional protesting standpoint what is really interesting about every single one of those clips, every one of them occurred in

washington, d.c. every single one of them occurred in a place where they are surrounded by government bureaucrats, people who work in washington. i would defy you to find one -- a single one of these protests where they can gather up a bunch of people that are not federal bureaucrats. i bet there hasn't been a single regular non-affiliated government to government citizen, innocent taxpayer who attended a single one of these things. as you point out people don't care about this. i think that, you know, what you don't hear from them. they don't try to defend the particulars that we have so much fun sort of pawing through and looking at and highlighting because three so indefensible. >> bill: and so much of it. it is out there every day, charlie. who knows what will come up tomorrow? we just found something from yesterday on monday. listen, put up this, guys, a whistleblower page that senate

democrats are encouraging federal workers to fill out your form and file your complaint and give us your name and we'll come and talk to you. in the meantime over on msnbc here is the echo of the fight that's happening there. >> it's a third category that poses the risk of what i would call autocratic breakthrough, designed to change the government, country and system so they can never be removed from power. musk is hijacking entire departments and agencies and accessing information as he wages an unprecedented and likely illegal assault on the millions of public service. >> bill: or maybe trying to balance the books in the end and what taxpayer wouldn't like that. remember when trump said fight, fight, fight? this is the early stage of the democratic version of that. you have to ask yourself how is it going? how many bullets can you fire? not literally but

metaphorically. >> yeah, although i think you are probably right about that. i don't think it's breaking through for people. i think that was the moment that all of this happened. the moment president trump nearly got assassinated i think he recognized that this was an opportunity to do something very transformative and he doesn't care anymore. he doesn't care what these people say to him. what they try to do to him. he has an agenda. it's the agenda he ran on and wants to accomplish it. it is kind of interesting. democrats have managed to go through every single weapon in their arsenal against him. political weapon in their arsenal against him including trying to put him in jail. none of it worked and so that's why he is not behaving like any normal politician who has ever come before him. he does not care. he actually wants to do things like make the federal government more efficient and get rid of things that don't help the american taxpayer and in fact hurt the american taxpayer.

>> dana: all right. charlie, good to see you on tuesday. great having you on "fox & friends" weekend. >> bill: trump's pick for dni tulsi gabbard got through a major hurdle. all of these may go through. stand by throughout the week. growing concerns for americans as flu cases spike from coast to coast. at a level we haven't seen in decades. dr. marc siegel is in the house with what you need to know for yourself and your family.

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>> dana: the former democrat from hawaii clearing a major hurdle yesterday after the senate broke the filibuster with a 52-46 party line vote. she faced skepticism from republicans but murcowski is now a yes. the final vote will come sometime tomorrow.

>> bill: we'll watch this. it is going across the country. cases of flu are spiking nationwide. you have 24 million cases according to the cdc, some say higher than that. 300,000 hospitalized, 13,000 deaths. 57 of them children. dr. marc siegel fox news senior medical analyst on that. good morning. a few graphs. the purple line that you are about to see here are the out patient respiratory illnesses reported thus far. the purple line is where we are coming up on mid february. another graph want to show you. this is the flu season so far on the yellow line, 9.2 million cases. a year ago it was a third of that. doctor, what's going on out there? >> bill, i just spoke to cdc about this. it is up closer to 35 million cases right now as of today. i'll tell you what i think is

going on. first of all, we came out of the pandemic and we didn't have any blanket of immunity, the flu. we hadn't seen flu. we were locked down and saw covid, not flu. now we're seeing flu like we haven't seen in a while and we're seeing two different strains causing severe illness because our immune systems aren't ready for it and seeing the worst flu season since 2004. we're still just warming up. it is only the beginning of february. 43 states show severe flu and i'm concerned about this. again this is probably worse than the 2009 swine flu. so that's the number one reason. the other thing that bothers me is we see a lot of associated bronchitis and sinus infections. i'm treating both at the same time. it is very hard to do. how do you know if you have the flu? number one symptom is you feel like you got hit with a ton of bricks. fatigue, muscle aches, can't get

out of bed. rsv and covid are on their way down. very low cases. >> i saw a guy in the elevator in my building yesterday. this guy was just -- i looked like he had been through the battle and he was at the very beginning of it. good advice out there. wash your hands, right? that's the first thing you can do is wash your hands. >> wash your hands. the antiviral drugs we have are fantastic. a new one works well. you only need to take one pill and the flu shot if you haven't had one helps with severity. 300,000 hospitalizations is a lot at this point. >> bill: i've never thought about this, never heard of it. it is called micro plastics and there is a new study out there that suggests we have a lot of us inside of our human bodies. less than five millimeters in size. summarily than a pencil he raiser. they consume them.

average grams hat seven grams. what do we need to understand about it? >> i knew about it but i learned something today. it's up 50% over the last decade. recent studies have shown it is clogging your heart and can lead to heart disease and strokes. bill, what i learned today three to four times likely you will get dimension from this. related to this. these are not innocent bystanders. these are coming from places like ultra processed foods and the water battles you have. so look, rfk junior's idea of cleaning up the water from the tap and getting the fluoride out of it and maybe moving away from bottled water might actually be a path forward that makes a lot of sense. the water battles you have are loaded with these micro plastics as are the ultra processed foods. we have to get them out of our diet. >> bill: i think there is more to talk about on this and we

shall. thanks for coming on. to be continued. >> bill, i want to say a nod to william hemmer your father. one of the greatest human beings ever. we mourn his passing. >> bill: appreciate the kind words. >> dana: president trump facing legal head winds as courts block some of his major policy moves. it doesn't look like the president is backing down. plus one california teen facing a tough choice. which prestigious military academy should he attend? he was accepted to four of them and he joins us next. ♪ no games. no fun. there's a great barbeque outside. but don't touch that. meanwhile, at a vrbo... when other vacation rentals make you share your turf with a host, try one that's all yours.

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>> bill: back in stuttgart, germany. here is pete hegseth back on stage. he has been taking questions for a while. he is with the u.s. africa command headquarters in germany.

this is officially his first stop in the new job. we're keeping an eye on this and watch it for headlines. wanted to share that with you and from that we go to a very special person. >> dana: somebody who pete hegseth might want to meet. top student star athlete and leader in his community now this california teen has his choice between four of the country's most prestigious military academies. brock joins us now. how do i say your last name? >> good morning, thank you for having me here. my last name is brock buek. >> dana: tell everybody about your family's military history. it was impressive to learn. >> well, i've been very fortunate to grow up in such a great community. i come from four generations of combat veterans. dad served in iraq through the united states marine corps. grandpa served in vietnam and

great grandpa in world war ii through the army air core and my great great grandfather served in world war i. >> dana: your resume as a young man. high school resume from the civil air patrol to the cadet corp. you played football, wrestling team captain and varsity baseball team captain. is there anything you wish you would have done so far in your little career here? >> well, i'm just really fortunate and very grateful to be part of such a great community. i couldn't have done this alone and i really am happy to be part of all these different groups and have such a great support system from teammates, coaches, teachers and advisors. such a great community and such a great start of my journey. >> dana: i was teasing you a little bit. you have done a ton. i don't know if you have 28 hours in a day to everybody

else's 24. you applied to four military academies and got accepted to all. what was the moment like when you found out? >> it was very ecstatic. when i got the letters at home and everything my whole family jumped up and brated. it was almost like i was dreaming. i was very excited and words can't describe how happy i felt just to be able to accomplish this milestone and be able to achieve something i have had a lot of years preparing for. >> dana: you visited west point so far. you will make other visits in march and make a decision by april. what are you looking for? if any of those academies are watching now what could they do to earn your trust that's where you want to go? >> well, i'm more than happy or willing to serve in any single one of the academies. and i am looking for somewhere to have a great journey.

i know every single one will give that to me. i'm trying to figure out what job and what career field will be best for me and just want to see exactly what exactly sits right with me and what will be the best possible outcome. whichever one i go to will be a great journey. >> dana: i just got this comes in from lucas tomlinson. if you want a social life go to annapolis. i don't know. there is some advice if that's what you are looking for. you are a very impressive young man and honored to have you on fox and make sure secretary hegseth gets a heads up he has a great young man coming to join. thank you so much. >> dana: thank you. i really appreciate this. >> bill: we'll hear from him again. i always thought as a young person they put so much pressure to pick a career. just pick a path and you'll find yourself far ahead of your peers and colleagues i