administration. unprecedented for a new president to come in and change things so quickly just by his presence. his administration, his message throughout the campaign, having a direct result on these companies. i mean, we are talking amazon. we are talking g.m., mull son, coors, pepsi, target, walmart, u.s. military, countless others have all done away with their dei programs because they get that maybe this crazy concept of a merit based system of giving a job to the best person, the best candidate, regardless of color of their skin or sexual orientation, maybe that's the better way to go or the best person for the job actually gets the job because dei in the end, guys, should stand for didn't earn it. americans don't like it. get another item at donald trump elected on. >> todd: got to run. "fox & friends" now. ♪

>> brian: #:00 a.m., wednesday february 12th this is "fox & friends." get ready a fox news alert. we are watching for another hostage release today after mark fogel, the teacher from pennsylvania, an american wrongfully detained in russia for more than three years, out of nowhere, finally returns home. >> lawrence: so mark fogel's sister ann and trump's special envoy to the middle east, steve witkoff will join the show this morning. >> emily: and president trump and elon musk taking questions from the oval office, and there was no shortage of news tied to how much waste doge is uncovering. watch. >> i had no idea we were going to find this much. it's open. it's not like complicated. >> your tax dollars need to be spent wisely on the things that matter to the people. >> steve: how cute is that kid? just saying. plus, canada is making new moves to fight against drugs flowing over our northern border.

we're going to tell you what this is all about because "fox & friends" hour one with emily compagno for starts right now. >> steve: best story in the country right now fox news alert, mark fogel, that american teacher is back in the united states after spending years locked up in a russian prison. >> brian: it seemed so hopeless but suddenly he is out. president trump welcoming fogel home after working out a deal late last night from his release from moscow. >> emily: doug luzader is live from washington with the details. >> the president described this as a very fair and reasonable deal. the terms weren't clear but the images were very striking. american teacher m mark fogel ws released from being held hostage in rush three years. first stop the white house where he thanked president trump and his team. >> i feel like the luckiest man on earth right now. [clearing throat]

and i want you to know that i'm not a hero in this at all. and president trump is a hero. these men that came from the diplomatic service are heroes. >> mark: obviously a very emotional fogel there. he was detained in russia 2021. sentenced to 14 years in prison after being caught with what his family described as medically prescribed marijuana. the secretary of state marco rubio spoke last night about his release. >> none of this is possible without president trump. this is the tenth american that's come home after being detained somewhere overseas in just three weeks in the white house. it's an extraordinary achievement. >> i can't release until the person is release. obviously could endanger a hostage release and that, i can't could do. i can say that we expect another one tomorrow. and hopefully a lot more through that because the president made

it a priority to get all americans home. >> okay. so we're waiting to learn more about this. maybe more to come today. both the special u.s. envoy we heard from there and the secretary of state say another hostage could be released today. again, because this is still in the works, they did not release any additional information. back to you guys. >> steve: doug luzader, thank you very much. >> brian: what an amazing scene last night. i think the most dramatic thing and interesting thing i would see is elon musk sitting in front of the press with the president of the united states and his son. this is the way the night ended with the president of the united states sitting there with marco rubio and senator mccormick and the speaker of the house as well as steve witkoff, who engineered this whole thing after meeting three-plus hours with vladimir putin, he leaves with a teacher, who was in a penal clone, who had bad back problems, was suffering from all types of debilitating illnesses throughout his time in prison. and he comes home. the president greets him.

they walk into the white house. and then we get the details on the drama and impromptu feelings, emotional feelings of fogel as he comes home to see his family in pennsylvania. >> lawrence: it's extraordinary you see this president working all times of the day. morning, night, he is being briefed on things. then you got steve witkoff who is already having to deal with a deal when it comes to hamas and israel and now he's focused on this deal? i mean, i just wonder why this wasn't already done, especially since this guy was imprisoned before brittney griner for a similar charge. >> brian: microcosmic medical marijuana. >> lawrence: just incredible. >> steve: that image right there. you don't see it every day. there he is just released hostage with the american flag draped around him, he is holding in his hand, at first i thought it was a diet coke e is actually holding a iron city brewing company beer, because he -- you know, you always wonder, okay

you have been in prison for a number of years, what else the first thing you want? first thing he got iron city brewing company beer. but, lawrence, to your point, about donald trump, donald trump met his mother at the now infamous july 13th rally in butler. and he made a promise to her that he would get her -- get him out if he was elected. and she has told people in the past, you know, i don't know -- she is 95. she said i don't know that i'm going to be alive to see my son released. he was released yesterday. the family is saying hallelujah, donald trump. >> emily: let's take some sound of that where mark says how indebted he feels to the trump administration and president trump brings up that 95-year-old mom. watch. >> knowing i had the support of my fellow pennsylvanians, my family, my friends.

it was so overwhelming that it brought me to my knees and it brought me to tears. i will forever be indebted to president trump, to steve over there, and secretary rubio who met my son a while back. i'm a middle class school teacher. [clearing throat] who is now in a dream world. and i love our country i'm so happy to be back here. >> he has got a great mother. when i saw the mother at a rally, she said will you -- if you win, will you get my son out? and i promised -- she is 95 years old. we will get him out. we got him out pretty quickly.

>> she told me that exact words. >> she made quite an impression. >> and you also did. i'm in awe of what have you done. and your team. >> it's great to have you back. you are going to have great life. >> steve: how great is that? >> emily: emotional moment for those two and all of those at home it's incredible. >> talk about the symbolism. comes out draped in a american flag and holding a beer his eagles just won the super bowl. there is, without question, unilateral global support for this. and you contrast that with the brittney griner situation where there were headlines that said, quote: did biden make the right call as he exchanged the merchant of death for brittney griner's freedom the same year she was arrested he was sentenced to 14 years. the point is when president trump, what did you do in exchange? he said nothing much. the point is that we got an

american home we didn't have to exchange a violent terrorist in exchange. we exchanged based on goodwill the strength. the after the the deal and the strength of this president. >> brian: why the president said i'm not going to talk to you. i'm going to talk to vladimir putin. i'm not going into detail what did you give up for? not much. this is all a play for the ukraine, russia war. all part of the bigger picture. stay tuned. he will be trasht when he can. he has proven that and if it hurts the deal, he's not going to. why did vladimir putin give it up initially looked like for absolutely nothing. one, i think it's a show of respect. number two, i think it shows he knows things have got to change because he is losing tens of thousands of guys every single week costing a ton of mobile and global isolation outside of his band of bandits that are around him. i'm very curious what happens in the next couple of days because zelenskyy is not the problem. he said flat out i'm going to -- let's talk land swap kinks for kurtz for whatyou want.

$500 million? let's talk about it, mr. president, anybody anyone who thought maybe six months ago zelenskyy was going to be the problem. not the problem. putin showing is he looking to play ball. this is going to be an exciting, i think, within the next seven days something big is going to happen. >> steve: i will tell you what, it's exciting on this program, because we have got ann fogel, mark fogel's sister. steve witkoff the guy who flew his own private plane to moscow, trump said it was to save money. is he going to be joining us live as well. and i love the fact that is this american teacher who had never been to the white house before from pennsylvania, he is there in the white house we see him in the diplomat i can room. he took him upstairs to the lincoln bedroom and gave him a tour of the white house. after a gigantic day and donald trump was on tv all day long. this guy shows up. he has been in moscow. he has been in prison for a couple years. i don't know what?

i don't know if you will be back any time soon, mr. fogel, let me give you a tour of the white house. how great. what a capper to a day that he will never forget. >> lawrence: brian alluding to the big deal. the president went into that yesterday. let's watch. >> you could be a big part of it, actually it. could be a big, important part of getting the war over with ukraine. and we appreciate president putin's -- what he did. he was able to pull it off for you, right? he was able to pull it off. we think. and you are here. so it was great. we'll tell you a little bit more about it tomorrow. but i think we have made great progress on the war, also. getting the war -- i want to get the war ended. >> lawrence: to brian's point, i think russia and putin realized that they have to give a little. i mean, anybody that thought there was going to be this animosity between zelenskyy, remember, during the first was

it the second impeachment? he backed the president back then. he said he didn't feel pressure before. they have a relationship. zelenskyy made little errors during the campaign or his people did, ambassador. but it looks like they have repaired their relationship. and he is negotiating with the president. put putin in a different -- a precarious situation because now he has to negotiate. he is giving a little right now. i think -- i'm hopeful for the ending of this war with the start of this, releasing americans out of russia. >> steve: it's a goodwill gesture. >> lawrence: i'm hopeful. >> brian: you know the rhythm. since he went into georgia during the bush administration, every two or three years he tries to take more land from eastern europe while cutting the wires, cutting the cables, to the baltics and try to harass them into going back into his orbit. so we have to stop that rhythm. nato needs that. so you need security guarantees. let's get it going because as the president says, whatever you think of him, death and destruction hit him to his core. he will can't stand it.

when he saw those emaciated hostages come out of gaza, hears the kill and sees the numbers he wants to take action. meanwhile, the other big drama happened yesterday in the afternoon as elon musk made it clear. he knows he is the center of attention. he is the reason why everybody on the democratic party learned to curse real time in front of their podium. he went out and said being transparent on that doge is doing and what they are not doing. what they have discovered in looking at the budget, how he has nothing personal to gain from this while bringing his son to show that he's a dad and you see that this is almost a family atmosphere. he has with donald trump. where they are dying to say that trump and musk are coming apart. there is no evidence that they are doing anything but getting closer. >> steve: so here he is. >> what is the goal of doge and i think significant part of the presidency is to restore

democracy. really just talking about adding common sense controls that should be present that haven't been present. you know, crazy things like, just the examination of social security and we got people in there that are 150 years old. now, do you know anyone who is 150? i don't know. okay. and then we are told this is actually a great antidote the most number of people that could retire possibly in a month is 10,000. we're like well, is that well, because all the retirement paperwork is manual, on paper. manually calculated written down on he's poof paper. then it goes down a mine. what do you mean a mine? like, yeah. there is a limestone mine where we store all the retirement paperwork. and we also got to address the deficit. so we have got a $2 trillion deficit and if we don't do something about this deficit, the country is going bankrupt.

that what are the two ingredients really necessary in order to cut the budget deficit in half from 2 trillion to 1 trillion? it's really two things. competence and caring. and if you add competence and caring, you will cut the budget deficit in half. >> steve: he is leading up the department of government efficiency. and when he just brought up the story about that limestone mine this goes to show you exactly how inefficient the government is back in 1958, the federal government was looking for 30,000 square feet to store personnel records. they wound up there in boyers pennsylvania. north of pittsburgh, and to this day, they still have 700 opm workers who work about 230 feet underground, and what they do is when an application for retirement comes in, they process it. and they keep it in a manila envelope there in that particular spot. it's owned by iron mountain

today, apparently. and they lease out the caverns where hollywood stores films and stuff like that. it goes to show you. elon musk would love to automate that process so that if you want to retire, you just fill out a form online and next thing you know you are retired. instead is it is this very long process. that's why the federal government is only process 10,000 retirements a month. >> lawrence: it's embarrassing. it's 2025. why are we still doing things this way? we would have never found out about this if it wasn't for elon musk and his workers and the president sending them off going to department by department. i just wish the democrats -- i mean, there is an easy strategy to this. pick some things that the american people don't like we're spending money that the republicans like. that's how you can get a win with the american public. but, every single day letting donald trump, the president of the united states, and elon musk have a p.r. victory by showing inefficiency every single day.

i don't think it's going to help their case at all. >> emily: guys, i was a federal attorney in the social security administration. so here you have to your point the libs coming out, outraged at daring to look at the books. when we have confirmed. >> steve: the books are in a mine. >> emily: $3 trillion in improper payments proven across federal agencies over the last 10 years. a billion a year in the social security administration alone. so, when the "the washington post" comes out and says we're cutting the workforce by 25%, that's just 1% of our budget, sure, that might be salaries that, is not even touching that waste, fraud, and abuse. the inefficiency, the manila envelopes in mines, me having to spend months putting someone on a detention program to terminate them only to have them sue and come back reinstated. i can't overestimate -- i can't overstate the amount of money that your tax dollars goes toward securing and insuring

that waste, fraud, and abuse. now, no more, thanks to doge. >> brian: here's what he said. this is the most important thing he said. i got to the point where i stopped some things that were necessary. i made a mistake and i fixed it. so if we do something, we fix it right away in real time. number two is, we don't have a choice. we have to cut the deficit. and there is fraud and abuse. not only fraud and abuse, this stuff is going overseas so at least if you are going to defraud the government. at least american. is anyone for allowing foreigners abuse our system? he says there are invoices that go out with no name on them. where is this money going? let alone what fema is doing behind closed doors and the lack of efficiency there. the lack of efficiency with usaid. a judge is federally block the buyout offer. doge's access to the treasury data. you need official there. birthright citizenship on all u.s. aid worker layoffs has been stopped and federal spending

freeze has been stopped all by judges. we have to figure out to work this with the system and for those people who are protesting, you are pro-fraud. run on that. >> lawrence: this is what they are pushing back. i know it's hard to keep up with this. you can see at the bottom of your screen a little ticker right there. telling you the initiatives that are being cut and it's showing you per taxpayer how much money you're going to be saving. so they hold. >> lawrence: going to uncover more throughout the day going through department. every single day there is a protest. this is what they are preventing from you, the taxpayer, how much money you would have in your pocket. >> emily: you brought up the federal judges. the waste, fraud and abuse. you can't claw that back. you can't claw back those trillions. consider that sort of sunk costs, which means that this is a ceasing now to the future. but those judges say that the error the concern for error

means they want to stop the audit and spending for fear that the greater error would be -- do you realize how backwards that is? the big errorrer spend too much. hey, let's just stop all spending and make sure someone doesn't have my credit card fraudulently. >> steve: blame congress because they appropriated all this money and that's one of the problems. inadvertently the doge people wound up with a little p.r. problem. we had heard that the treasury officials working with the doge guys, they could only read it. well, they accidently granted, i think on february 5th, one spacex engineer the ability to read and write. so he had the ability to change the federal payment system. it was just one day. he resigned the next day. that's the social media inappropriate comments guy. but, nonetheless, they got explain we thought -- we made a mistake but it's been fixed. >> brian: other thing is, just

show us. if you could see a few examples of the 1 auto-year-old getting social security payments. if we could see some. >> steve: they need it. 150-year-old would need social security. >> brian: especially dental and things that come along with being 150 years old and need knee replacements. can't get to the airports. we can go on. i would like to see that immediately i flip around and say who is pro-fraud? well, he says this. but where's the proof? like he would sit there with his son giving up his free time sleeping in the eisenhower building in a cot to make up things about social security. >> lawrence: he doesn't need it. >> brian: the ticker is awesome. comes from the federal government, i guess. that is fantastic. just show us some of these examples. and it's going to be really hard to be a democrat and curse at those rallies while you stand on the other side of that. >> steve: elon musk's son, his name is x. and carley shimkus joins us right now. carley, do you think elon named twitter x as a kid or the kid

after twitter. >> carley: got to think for the letter x clearly. i think his son's name is much different. >> steve: starts with x. >> brian: xavier. >> steve: an x and some other letters. >> carley: he is so cute though. elon musk takes him everywhere with him. >> brian: some day he is going to be running the long lawrence the kid? yeah. >> emily: before that carley is going to run the world with headlines. >> carley: you are fantastic. >> steve: brock is going to run the world. >> carley: that's other news. israel's prime minister is giving a stern warning to hamas. benjamin netanyahu says he'll withdraw from the cease-fire deal if the terror group follows up on its threat to delay saturday's planned hostage release. israel is now mobilizing its troops in and around gaza. all while aid convoys continue to move. in we will get update from u.s. special envoy to the middle east steve witkoff next hour.

the trump administration has resumed deportation flights to venezuela. two planes flying illegal immigrants and gang members flown back to the socialist country this week. arranged 200 people were on board those flights and sent home. the first deportation flight to venezuela in nearly a year. and a big few days for some high profile trump cabinet picks in just hours. the full senate is expected to vote on tulsi gabbard's nomination for director of national intelligence. that's scheduled for around 11:00 a.m. eastern time. gabbard is expected to be confirmed after winning support from hesitant republicans. and it comes as the judiciary committee prepares to send kash patel's nomination for fbi director to the senate floor. that's expected to happen tomorrow. and a good boy is now dog. monty the giant schnauzer crowned best in show at the west kennel club dog show. monty making his mark at madison square garden after losing by a hair the last two years.

he is the first joined schnauzer ever to finish in first place. and we are thrilled because monty and his owner sandy will join "fox & friends" later this morning so we get to pet monty, guys. how thrilled are you? janice, you did a great job yesterday as always covering the westminster dog show. >> janice: you know how much i love it. it's one of my favorite assignments. >> steve: absolutely. >> janice: the groundhog every year and the dog show and up next is kentucky derby. an animals. >> lawrence: was the competition close? >> janice: i think. so there was really amazing stories with all seven of the groups that were in the dog show. the winthe whippet. came out of retirement. 9 and a half years old. >> steve: came out of retirement. what is a dog's job it could come out of retirement? >> janice: there were a lot of people excited for the different groups. giant schnauzer has never won best in show 149 years since the

westminster kennel club dog show. what a great seen. people should go at least once in their life to enjoy the dog show. number one question i get is it like best in show the movie? and it is. it's identical. >> emily: i was watchinged from the gym and crossing my finger for the debar man. >> steve: doberman? >> emily: yes. is it really about the dog? >> janice: i don't get into politics when it comes to dogs. you will have to ask the president dawn skirts. it wasn't for dawn i wouldn't have my dog lola. great community and family. >> brian: talk to politics when it comes to politics but won't talk about politics when it comes to dogs. more on this later as the show progresses. meanwhile, doge in the oval. how the cost cutting crew is cleaning house, exclamation point. maya knows how quality care can bring out a smile. but it's been a few dog years

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>> lawrence: so president trump and elon musk shredding bureaucracy laying the ground for large scale government cuts bringing total transparency back to washington. it's a complete 180 from biden's constant refusal to answer people's questions. watch. >> i'm not supposed to take any questions but go ahead. >> mr. president, on afghanistan,. >> i'm not going to answer afghanistan now. >> in particular. >> you guys are bad. i'm not supposed to be answering all these questions. i'm supposed to leave. >> i'm supposed to stop and walk out of the room here. >> lawrence: with reaction "new york post" column miranda devine. -mile-an-hour carrasco good morning to you. i was struck by there was a moment in the press conference where elon musk says, look, because they were talking about the condoms and all that he said, look, we are going to make some mistakes. but, we're not going to bat 100 you, but at least we are going to get to the transparency aspect of things. i think that was truly telling, right? >> it sure was, lawrence. good morning. >> lawrence: good morning.

>> i think it's so refreshing to see, you know, just that moment yesterday when had you elon musk and his cute little son in the oval office and donald trump sitting at the resolute desk watching on as his kind of protege tells the entire world what nobody else other presidents have tried to do this and only elon musk and his little team of whiz kids, you know, very high iq whiz kids have been able to actually figure out what the government spends its money on and how it spends it and wastes it. the corruption, the abuse of the taxpayer money. and, the fact that he is saying that he could save a trillion dollars is truly amazing. and this is something that we are seeing open up in real time and, you know, elon has just

discovered this stuff. he is obviously coming to tell the president about it, he is in there. he was in there last friday. is he obviously in there quite a lot. and donald trump really enjoys it. finds it very interesting. and, also, very important. and elon musk has told him that this is the most important thing he thinks he will do. and he is basically neglected all his companies to come and spend 24/7 for no money, not that he needs it, being the richest man in the world, but to do the business for the american people. and to see it all happening in real time, as you say, is such an incredible departure from what we saw under joe biden who, you know, joe biden and his administration felt that the american people deserved no information. and, for some reason, the media went along with it.

>> lawrence: yeah, miranda, no one has been able to explain to me what is elon gaining from this? he doesn't need the money. he doesn't need the pr, he doesn't need the power. he doesn't need any of it. you. >> the headaches? >> lawrence: exactly. i think this is a guy who loves projects and taking on things people say cannot be done, right? >> i totally agree. i think he loves the project. but i also think, i mean, he is an immigrant to this country from south africa. and he really does seem to love america with a huge passion. and i guess, as a businessman, and, obviously, very successful one with several businesses, he sees how dysfunctional this place has become. and so he wants to fix it. >> i'm glad about it and we got a little ticker on the right so our audience can follow. you can see how much you are saving every single day and it's going to be updated throughout the day as they find more

information. >> wow. >> lawrence: miranda devine, thanks so much for joining the program. >> thanks, lawrence. >> lawrence: canada making good on promises to trump. how our northern neighbors is now fighting the deadly flow of drugs coming into america. that's next

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threatened heavy tariffs 25% unless they get their border and drug flow under control. last fiscal year alone border agents caught 43 pounds of fentanyl at the canadian border that could kill 9 million people. next guest battling the drug problem at his own very own border, seen it firsthand over 23 years. david favreau joins us now. sheriff, thank you so much for being here. people want to talk about what is happening on the border. they don't want to diminish the dangers of the northern border. put it in perspective. how big a deal is fentanyl? how big a deal is illegal immigration in the northern border? >> a lot of times it would depend on who you would ask how big a deal is fentanyl? only takes that one family that loses their child, their loved one from it and it's a huge deal. we are seeing more deaths than we certainly want to see and should see. we are hoping we can be able to slow it down, significantly. a lot of people are focused on the southern border because of the vastness of the border, the openness, so you can see the

volumes of people coming over and smugglers coming over. up along the northern border, it's not so much so. the numbers are significant. probably 300 or 400 times what we have seen over the last five years. but the problem is they are much more hidden in the wooded areas because the northern border is all thick dense woods and water swampy areas where they are actually traversing from canada into the u.s. >> brian: so now do you welcome the president's emphasis on the northern border. do you welcome trudeau decades the royal mounted police for this fentanyl czar position? >> i looked quickly at his resume and it is impressive. i think he has got some really good experience. and he certainly seems motivated. so imauto really hoping that he does reach out. we can have some good law enforcement team communications and strategize. but the key to success is going to be whether or not there is a full and truthful sharing of intel. what are they getting? what are they seeing? what is happening?

that's going to be the key. it's not going to be the after effect. it's not an us against they. we are on the same team and need to be work together on this to be able to combat the problem and we can be successful. with his resume and what he has done in the past, we certainly should be able to accomplish that. >> brian: so, sheriff, you need to talk to the border patrol in the north you need to be having conversation with american law enforcement as well as canadian law enforcement. has anyone done that with you yet as sheriff over in plattsburgh? >> absolutely. we have the best partnership with the border patrol you can ask for. >> the northern border mane out to the here we are in the swanton seeing tore the most active sector most apprehensions on the entire border of the united states. and we work hand in hand with the border patrol. they are in my cell phone speed dial. i'm on their speed dial. >> brian: good. >> we communicate literally various hours of the night and day. we have a program operation stone garden that's very effective where we have patrol

officers that are actually working with border patrol agents. >> brian: good. >> searching and working the northern border. the relationship is very strong on this side. and we get along well with our counterparts in canada. but, it doesn't seem that there has been a central repository for communications. what can be communicated and who is going to communicate it. this is a little bit different than what we have seen. >> brian: sheriff, i just get the sense if you tell that to the border patrol they will tell the white house and they are going to sol it. you have been doing this 23 years. you have never seen it quite as bad as this. you also say 50 different countries are coming through. and now it's mostly india, right? real quick on that. >> yes it does fluctuate and change a lot of it depends on the weather. there is scientific fact behind that but it's extremely cold. this coming weekend it's going to be double digits below zero up here. >> brian: all right. good luck. you guys can handle it. you are a lot tougher than people downstate in new york

city where we get 2 inches and the world comes to a stop. thanks so much, sheriff. we're hoping you have some good reports. we will check in with you again in a couple of weeks. >> very good. >> brian: they have one month to get their act together. doge deranged democrats ready to defend reckless spending on capitol hill and their fight against the war on waste. >> democrats are ready to fight. we are fighting back to defend and to serve our people

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♪ >> steve: happening today, house oversight is going to hold its first doge subcommittee hearing on government waste as elon musk continues to reveal where our tax dollars are going. >> a bunch operating in the united states and taking advantage of the federal government, especially in the entitlements programs are foreign operating in other countries and actually exporting money to other countries. we should stop that big numbers. 100 to $200 billion a year. >> steve: is he right we should stop that some democrats are saying that they are showing up to fight against the war on waste. what? >> democrats are ready to fight. we are ready to show the american people what is actually happening and how we are

fighting back to defend and to serve our people. >> steve: okay. well, one of the witnesses today, at the hearing is, chief executive officer for alexis nexus rich solutions government haywood tall co-joins us now. haywood, good morning to you. >> thanks for having me we heard elon musk talk about how much criminal activity is involved in who we are paying and so much of the money is going overseas. explain how this is happening. >> so, during the pandemic, what happened was these transnational criminal groups, return, china, nigeria, romania, stole over a trillion dollars from taxpayers and harmed beneficiaries, and they use that money for horrible things. they use it for terrorism. they use it for child trafficking. they used it to harm our

communities. >> fast-forward to today as you look back at the ppp program you are talking about with all that waste not in the midst of a pandemic. the agencies with a lot of the entitlements and we were just chatting during the break. if the entitlements tighten things up and got the money to people who deserve it and earned it, you could save how much money? >> i think we could save a trillion dollars a year between federal, state and local government. >> steve: explain how. >> we have to do front end i'd tid verification. the second thing is we have to stop allowing self-certification and the third thing we have got to do is monitor the population.

a lot of times these criminals use stolen information that they get from the dark web. they pretend to be you and me and getting benefits that they're not entitled to. if you do those three things, you're able to stop the fraud. right now, in the public sector, in government fraud rate is 20%. fraud rate only 3%. we got to get that fraud rate down. >> that's one of the things that the doge people are looking at you think if they updated the 1974 privacy act, things would change? the privacy act the way it's written allows transnational criminals and organized criminals in this country data sharing, data matching are very difficult to do under the current law we mention the ppp loans if you had simply done a check between the internal revenue service and the applicant, you would have realized that probably 40% of

those initial loans were fraudulent. >> steve: right. well, when you think about it, haywood, a lot of these government agencies are in charge of sending money out to people who need the money for whatever reason. it seems like the government should have a mandate, all right, if you're gonna send the money out, you got to be sure the person is entitled to it it's that simple. >> common sense. during the pandemic i was talking to insurance director i explained to her we were seeing massive amounts of fraud going on on the dark web and her particular state she explained to me there is no fraud here. go away. three weeks later, you had more people applying for the benefits that they had in the state over the age of 18. the problem that we live in today is criminals have data and technology. >> right.

>> government needs better data and better technology to thwart them. >> steve: amen to that. haywood talcove is going to testify today on capitol hill. have a good day. >> you too. thank you. >> steve: president trump welcomes american teacher mark fogel back on american soil after years in russia. his sister anne fogel and steve witkoff joins us on "fox & friends."

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