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today. to that end she has been given the mission of dismantling the u.s. department of education. >> dana: president trump explaining why he wants to shut it down and when. >> how soon do you want the department of education to be closed? >> president trump: i would like it to be closed immediately. look, the department of education is a big con job. >> dana: aishah hosni tracking the action live from capitol hill. hi. >> good morning. linda mcmahon walked in. this is the elephant in the room today during this hearing. essentially asking the senate to give her this job she will eventually have to put herself out of the job. aside from questions about a number of things, senators will ask her about her experience, allegations that she covered up abuse at the wwe, and her commitment to civil rights office. everyone will want to know today does she support president trump's plan to dismantle this department of education? there are meanty of republicans on capitol hill i can tell you

who want to see that happen. the white house is reportedly thinking about starting with executive action and then asking congress to seal the deal. oversight committee chairman james comer, who oversees the doge committee in the house and agrees with president trump's plan told me it won't be a problem for house republicans. this might be a big problem for senate republicans. watch. >> if we are going to pass something like that, we've to figure out a way to get it through the senate. the senate is always a problem where it takes 60 votes to pass anything. certainly i would hate to defend the mess in the department of education. >> yesterday democrats led a rally against mcmahon along with the american federation of teachers, president randi weingarten announced the group is talking about taking elon musk and doge to court to prevent them from gaining access to the department of education and dana we've seen a lot of

folks here from the national education association in the audience. the largest labor union in the country. of course, it helps educators, teachers, schools get grants and programs which might now be on the chopping block. they are inside. we're waiting to see if there are any protests that happen during the hearing. >> dana: i'm fascinated by this whole thing and appreciate the update. thank you. >> president trump: we had a great call and it lasted for a long time, over an hour this morning. i also had with president zelenskyy, a very good call after that. and i think we're on the way to getting peace. i think president putin wants peace and president zelenskyy wants peace. and i want peace. >> bill: a chance we may be going into a new era. president trump engaging in telephone diplomacy looking for a way to end the war in ukraine. his push for peace comes as defense secretary pete hegseth lays out the trump agenda at

nato. lucas tomlinson is in brussels today. >> good morning from nato headquarters in brussels. it appears new era began right here yesterday when president trump's defense secretary told ukraine to abandon any hopes it had of joining the alliance and president trump says he could be going to the middle east soon to negotiate with vladimir putin. >> i will be dealing with president putin largely on the phone. we ultimately expect to meet. we expect that he will come here and i will go there and we'll meet also probably in saudi arabia the first time we'll meet in saudi arabia to see if we can get something done. >> here at nato headquarters hegseth said they need to be more to the lethal. not make it a diplomatic club. asked if his remarks on ukraine

were a betrayal and giving any land back here is what he said. >> there is no betrayal there. there is a recognition that the whole world and united states is invested and interested in peace. a negotiated peace. as president trump has said, stopping the killing. >> hegseth meeting with nato secretary general here this morning who said russia makes more ammunition in three months than the entire 32 nation alliance makes in a year. hegseth urged nato members to ramp up their own defense spending to deter russia. finland had this warning about russia. >> they have every five years they have attacked some country. so you cannot believe putin if he says this is lasting peace. >> hegseth will hold a press conference at nato headquarters within the hour. expect questions on ukraine to

dominate that press conference. >> bill: we'll be waiting and listening for that. nice to see you live in brussels there. thank you. >> dana: joining us "new york post" contributor douglas murray and a question about nato member and ukraine. president trump yesterday. >> president trump: i don't think it is practical to have it personally. i know that a new secretary of defense who is excellent made a statement today saying that he thinks it is unlikely or impractical. i think probably that's true. >> dana: how does europe take that? >> i think this is a very big stumbling block is nato membership. for the ukrainians in order to end the war they have to have some kind of security guarantee. the most obvious one, the main one is simply nato membership. it will be vetoed by certain nato members, hungry, maybe others. the question is, is there any other security guarantee to reassure the ukrainians? i see that as being very

difficult. don't forget in 1994 ukraine's security was guaranteed by america, britain, russia. in the budapest memorandum. ever since that was broken, ever since ukraine was invaded by russia, they basically don't believe that anything other than nato membership could possibly protect them. and they are possibly right about that. this is going to be a big stumbling block for the trump agenda in ukraine. he has to give them some kind of security guarantee but other than nato membership, what is it? >> bill: fair question. i think a lot of this stuff is very complex. putin would argue you were threatening to pull ukraine into nato anyway and why i went into. he will argue that. >> the funny thing about that is putin's claim that nato is encroaching on his territory. if his aim in invading ukraine was to stop that happening he blundered. there have been more members of

nato since his invasion than before. >> bill: you go back to the blinken document they signed in late 2021 i do believe. it is 75 pages long and one sentence on page 34, don't quote me on it that says we recognize your desire to one day join nato. all putin looks and says got it. couple other things going on. i want to give 35,000 foot perspective. you are so good at this. trump says he will go to saudi arabia and meet with vladimir putin and mohammed. he is trying to move all the chess pieces at one time. pulling russia on ukraine. pulling saudi arabia, maybe israel in the middle east peace negotiation. maybe that's the way he is thinking. what do you think about that? >> they are all connected. there has been an alliance. strengthened during the biden years of russia, iran and there

has been this greater cooperation between them, including enough in arms sales in the last year i've been in israel, gaza, lebanon. russian munitions as well as north korean munitions and iranian munitions given to hamas. so yes, if you can pull that alliance apart, if you can stop it now, that would be a great thing to do. >> dana: you think meeting with the crown prince is -- you said ksm. >> mbs. >> dana: a lot of initials there. here is another fyi if we're doing this. adam bowler helps the president on hostage affairs. an amazing week after a dismal four years. listen to him here. >> i fully believe the president in following through on the what else because he has done that multiple times before. i think iran found that out the

hard way in our prior administration. if hamas wants to test that will i think it is a big mistake. >> dana: i think all of us are watching what is going to happen on saturday with the state of the hostages last saturday. it was so horrible to watch and so i can understand the sensitivity of the families saying we have to get the others that are alive out as soon as possible. do you think it will happen? >> it is going to be very interesting to watch both president trump and prime minister netanyahu have made it clear midday saturday everyone has to come out. the question really is what happens if that doesn't happen? hamas are holding onto the hostages because the only way they can survive at this point. there may be some thousands of hamas fighter, 10,000 still going in gaza. they know they hold onto these jewish men, women and children, alive or dead, in order to sustain their own existence.

if they don't release everyone. this is one of the great what ifs of the last year and a half. can you imagine if on the 8th of october 2023 an american president had gone to qatar, everyone else and said you make sure your friends of hamas give over all the hostages now, now. you do not get to take americans. >> bill: you don't get to dribble them out. >> that's one of the great what ifs. we are where we are. the question now with saturday is, if iran -- if iranian proxies, hamas, don't release all of the hostages, what is there to hit? this is to me one of the great questions. i've been in gaza plenty. there are not many targets left and not many places to bomb. donald trump talked about afghanistan and running out of targets. there aren't many things to hit. everyone knows where the hostages are. israelis know where they are and

americans know where they are. they know that they are being surrounded. they are surrounded by hamas fighters and terrorists. and you can't strike there but what do you do? trump has said all hell will break loose, prime minister netanyahu said all hell will break loose. do they go above the hamas terrorists and if so, what does that look like? to my mind, it is the key moment to exert pressure on the backers of hamas. the backers of hamas are qatar and iran. and if you say to them -- all it needs is america to lean on qatar to say you know what? our base, the base you have that protects you, you know, that's up for grabs. everything is up for grabs. and with the iranians, it's a very clear route for president

trump to do something great with this, which is to say to the iranians you know what? you have to cut it out not just in gaza but the whole region. we have been through this weird year in which iran has been the big colonialist power in the region. iran has colonized the middle east. it took over iraq, yemen, gaza, everything. put iran on the back foot. put qatar on the back foot and hamas are totally alone, which is exactly where they should have been. >> bill: word out of cairo earlier today that said hamas would agree to the deadline. we'll wait and see. >> dana: ice conducting major immigration raids in colorado. violent histories of some captured. >> waiting on this meeting between president trump and prime minister modi of india. a big deal and big press conference. we'll watch that. why investors will watch that closely. >> dana: plus elon musk pushing

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>> dana: ice announcing more arrests of criminal illegal im granulitis including several with gang affiliations or violent history. many were put back on the streets thanks to sanctuary city policies. bill melugin is live in los angeles with more. tell us about these guys, bill. >> it is hard to believe there are any jurisdictions out there

that wouldn't cooperate with ice when it comes to illegal aliens charged with forcibly raping children. but in massachusetts it is just routine. look at this case. ice boston announced they arrested this guatemala illegal immigrant. three counts of forcible rape of a child. why was he on the streets, right? ice says their detainer request on him was ignored by the because of sanctuary policy. locals released him without bail without notice to ice. the director of ice boston says jose perez has been charged with some horrific crimes against a minor. he is the the type of alien we're targeting with our worst first policy. he poses a significant danger to the children of massachusetts and we won't tolerate such a threat to our community. they announced the arrest of this turkish illegal alien charged with assault and battery against a disabled person and

witness intimidation. ice says their detainer on him was also ignored by the sanctuary city of summerville. he had also been released into the public. elsewhere around the u.s. ice seattle arrested this illegal alien. in los angeles there was this one arrested charged with sexual assault and rape with a gun. in colorado d.e.a. announced arrests of illegal immigrants in recent days several affiliated with tren de aragua and others with crimes like kidnapping. child sexual assault and fentanyl trafficking. i was talking to a law enforcement source in massachusetts about the child rape case i referenced and there has to be a catch here, right? forget about cooperating with ice, how does somebody charge with so many counts of aggravated forceible rape get released on bail in the first place? the response was welcome to the

commonwealth of massachusetts. >> dana: they are finally on their way out. thanks, bill. >> president trump: i want to commend elon. he doesn't need this. he is abused by you people every day. he has found more things than anybody could find. i think he has the credibility to do it. >> bill: elon musk getting praise from the trump administration and now setting sights on an old limestone mine used to manually process retirement for federal employees. >> there is a limestone mine where we store all the retirement paperwork. it looks like something out of the 50s because it was started in 1955. it looks like a time warp. and then the speed -- the limiting factor is the speed at which the mine shaft elevator can move determines how many people can retire from the federal government.

elevator breaks down sometimes and nobody can retire. doesn't that sound crazy? there are a thousand people that work on this. >> bill: james fishback is with me now and outside advisor to doge. you have offered to take vivek's spot on doge and you are an outside advisor. a lot of people on the outside, you know what democrats are saying. they feel like you guys -- doge is taking pot shots at programs important to people. what would you -- how do you get to be part of doge? who says let's go get james fish balk and put him on the job? >> it is president trump's decision. i have to tell you that limestone mine in pennsylvania is maybe the perfect analogy for this rotten federal bureaucracy. think about it. it is burrowed deep, antiquated. hard to find and harder to hold accountable until now. it's why president trump and elon are doing this incredible

work with doge. they have uncovered a $2 million pottery class in morocco, 7 million e.v. charging station network in vietnam. taxpayers sent $5 trillion to washington every year and they demand respect and transparency. doge is delivering exactly that. >> bill: so here is an article from the "washington post" 11 years ago on the mine specifically that you just mentioned. it is real, the process inside belongs to a stubborn class of government programs. building mistakes that require -- the folks who work there may not feel that way. they tried to digitize this in the late 1980s and gave up on it. now you think about what usaid is doing and i just want to share this with our viewers. we have heard a lot of noise out of the continent of africa this week. two hours ago on reuters nigeria says they will make a provision

in their budget for $2 hundred million that would fill the gap from the missing usaid money. and the reason i bring this up is i just -- for those who believe this is moving so quickly, how would you as wage them they won't be the victims in the end? >> the thing the focus on here, bill. these countries are already making provisions because they never relied on this money in the first place. it was the fraudsters and swindlers squandering taxpayer money. nigeria is a successful country and resources to prioritize their own people like we prioritize our people whether in western north carolina or southern california. wasteful spending. no questions the countries recipients of this money will find a way. the ev charging station in vietnam or d.e.i. musical in

myanmar are not requirements for the vietnamese and myanmar people to succeed. they need a government that works for them. president trump is forcing the governments to reprioritize what is needed for their country's success. >> bill: each country will have to make decisions here. columbia says it is loseing $70 million. last question. is it practical to think we can save a trillion dollars or in the end is it more likely if you get halfway there you will be satisfied with that? >> put it to you this way, bill. in 2019 we spent 4 1/2 trillion dollars as a country. federal budget was 4 1/2 trillion. it is now 7 1/2 trillion. all we have to do is to get back to where we were just five years ago. it is 100% doable. doge is the beginning of that. congress has to act as well. good to see u.s. congressmen on the doge subcommittee step up.

>> bill: james, thank you. i guess you have the thumbs-up from the president and how you get on the team. that's what i take away from that first answer. james live in tampa. thank you for your time today. >> thank you. >> dana: in moments the senate will hold a confirmation vote for robert f. kennedy, jr. for health secretary. we'll bring it to you as it happens. a partisan divide in learning loss. the education deficits in blue states. if you have heart failure or chronic kidney disease,

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>> dana: we are waiting for a senate confirmation vote on rfk, jr. he was initially seen as a long shot. republicans are falling in line and democrats couldn't keep up their outrage. chad pergram is more from capitol hill. >> administration and supporters of rfk, jr. had to do some work behind the scenes to salvage this nomination. several gop senators had issues

with kennedy but they righted the ship. republicans will confirm him. administration expects it. >> i think we're greatly disappointed in any republican who chooses willfully to vote against the president's exceptionally qualified cabinet nominees and picks to lead his america first administration. not a single democrat swayed from voting against president biden's nominees. >> susan collins of maine and lisa murcowski of alaska will vote yesterday. bill cassidy of louisiana was skeptical at one point. the wild card is mitch mcconnell. he suffered from polio as a child and questions kennedy's position on vaccines. all democrats oppose the nomination. >> wasn't that long ago that he spread vaccine conspiracy theories in somoa where his misinformation contributed to a measles outbreak that got 83

people killed. mostly infants and children. >> georgia democrat warnock represents the centers for disease control in atlanta. he has special concern about kennedy. >> mr. kennedy, who would manage a budget of nearly $2 trillion, $2 trillion, including the cdc's budget has compared the cdc's work to nazi death camps and sexual abusers in the catholic church. >> once the senate finishes with kennedy senators will vote to confirm brooke rollins as secretary of agriculture. make 16 confirmations by the senate. senators will vote to break a filibuster on howard lot nick to serve as commerce secretary. the democratic senator from oregon is on the floor now. top democrat on the finance committee that deals with this

nomination. they should be going to the roll call vote imminently, maybe after his speech. back to you. >> dana: thank you. >> bill: hans nichols, political reporter. welcome back. a month ago think of all the daggers thrown at some of these nominees. as of right now it appears that everyone will be approved with one exception and that is the 24-hour short-lived nominee of matt gaetz. besides that it looks like everybody will go through. what does it mean for trump? >> it means that he can get wins on binary votes. a yes or no vote. it is clear that he can put pressure on senators. it is giving donald trump a great deal of confidence that he has a fair amount of influence on capitol hill especially in

the senate. here is the danger and potentially challenge for the president. when we get to the next iteration of his presidency, trump 2.0, it will be much more difficult especially on these very thorny legislative issues. how to get tax cuts and spending cuts through? there is much more complicated than a yes or no vote. on the yes or no vote donald trump and his team have done a lot of spade work and looks like they will run the tables. i say that. the usual comments, a few more to go. they look less controversial. bill and dana. >> dana: let me ask you looking ahead to just a few hours from now president trump announced there will be some opportunities for the press to ask questions at 1:00. he will do an oval office commentary about the reciprocal tariffs. here is what he said yesterday. watch. >> president trump: we'll be signing reciprocal tariffs. the world has taken advantage of the united states for many years. they've charged us massive

tariffs that we haven't charged them and as you know i just did something on steel and aluminum, 25%. that will go up at some point. so we will be doing reciprocal tariffs. whatever they charge, we charge, very simply. >> dana: a truth social this morning in all caps with lots of exclamation points. three great weeks, perhaps the best ever. today is the big one. reciprocal tariffs, make america great again. what do you hear on capitol hill about this? >> cautious sort of give the president wide berth to do this. you have not heard republican senators really take aim at trump on tariffs. they are holding their fire. not to say that can change. i like your use, dana there of we'll have an oval office commentary. we need to develop a new word for what these oval office free wheeling press conferences are. when he left on the helicopter we used to call it chopper talk.

this is something entirely new. i would offer the more important development today is how trump is going to explain this, what the actual numbers are, and then shifting over to a broad how european allies and partners respond to it. jd vance is in munich at the security conference and pete hegseth. trump will weigh out the markers today and suspect it will be quiet on capitol hill on the republican side in terms of criticism. >> bill: the counter tariffs will affect oh lot of countries in africa and southeast nations. we'll watch the fallout. chopper talk again, hans, once the snow melts. thank you, sir, for watching on the hill. tune in later tonight when rfk, jr. talks with laura ingraham exclusively at 7:00 eastern time on the fox news channel. check it out. all right. this.

>> woke d.e.i. c.r.t. is gone now. we make education the way it should be. we should not have children who can't read. we should not be weak in math. >> dana: president trump looking to shut down the education department as his pick to run it faces a confirmation hearing on capitol hill today. plus the trump administration scoring a victory in court over its federal buy-out program. the far left watch this are still melting down. >> the oligarchs and billionaires want to do is cut program after program, including education in order to give massive tax breaks to the very richest people in this country. richest people in this country. when you ride, right? makes me feel safe and protected out there. that's why i never leave home without a photo of the little ones. bracelet from my husband. lucky rabbit's foot. lucky rabbit named sfoot. it's swedish.

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>> bill: follow the bouncing ball live on capitol hill. the vote now is underway on the senate on rfk, jr.'s nomination. we expect that to go through. there be will a little intrigue on the republican side momentarily. happening now on the senate judiciary committee they are holding a meeting talking about kash patel, f.b.i. director. we expect him to be approved as well. for education, linda mcmahon's hearing is underway and a moment ago she made this statement in her opening remarks.

play this and we'll react out of it. watch. >> the latest scores from the nation's report card show achievement in k-12 math and reading at their lowest level in years. more than 2/3 of public colleges are beset by violent crime on campuses every year. the most tragically student suicide rates have dramaticically increased. we can do better. >> dana: we want to go back to chad pergram tracking all this breaking news. what is happening on the floor of the senate right now? >> they are in the middle of the roll call vote to confirm rfk, jr. old school manual process they do in the senate. everybody comes into the chamber and sometimes stand in the back and get the attention of the clerk and signal thumbs up or down. you don't have to vote when you hear the clerk calling the name. they went through the entire list so far and we're expecting

robert f. kennedy, jr. to be confirmed. right now the vote is eight in favor, six opposed. so far a part line vote. we keep an eye on mitch mcconnell. former republican leader who has expressed some reservations about rfk, jr. but we probably will know the disposition, the outcome of this vote before they actually gavel it down. looking at the clock here, this should take probably until almost the top of the hour. maybe a little past that. we'll probably know right before 11:00 eastern time if he has the votes to be confirmed and then they will go directly into another roll call vote to confirm brooke rollins as secretary of agriculture. the other thing to note here, the reason it might take longer potentially to get everybody rolling in there is a lot going on right now on capitol hill. there is this mark-up right now on the kash patel nomination to be the f.b.i. director where members of the judiciary committee will report out and send his nomination to the

floor. not for consideration today, probably sometime next week and he will have to overcome a filibuster. that meeting has been going on since 9:00 this morning. a couple other senate hearings going on. sometimes the first vote of the day takes a little bit of time for people to get to the floor. they usually allocate about 15, 20 minutes for this. this is always, as i say, like soccer. they keep the time on the field and there is always injury and booking time at the end. this probably will wrap up around 11:00 or after. >> dana: i think that on saturday morning when peter is watching the premier league. want to bring in carroll markowitz. rfk, jr. likely to be the next health and services secretary and linda mcmahon is saying i want to head the department of education but she will be in a position of basically dismantling or talking herself right out of a job. play this for you. this is president trump talking about closing the department of

education soon. >> how soon do you want the department of education to be closed? >> president trump: immediately. the department of education is a big con job. you have a department of education where people from washington, d.c., who in many cases don't care about the kids out in the country. they don't care about the farms and the farmer's daughter and sons. we have a massive bureaucracy in washington, d.c. >> dana: carroll, in our first hour senator tuberville said in the last four years from bernie sanders was chairman of the education committee there was one hearing in four years about education. now you have the democrats who are protesting linda mcmahon. your thoughts. >> the department of education spends 82 billion a year and around 70% of american children can't read on grade level. what are they spending their money on? donald trump is correct. the president called it a con

job. that's exactly what they are. funneling money to special interest groups, to their friends' projects, contracts that don't mean anything. we need to get away from the idea the department of education is a good thing for us. it is not. linda mcmahon cares about education of the american child and i think what she said about continuing programs, for example, is what the message should be. these programs are not going away. they are just not going to be the boondoggle they've been for the last four years. not going to be throwing money away. it will be spent on the education of children because making america great again means making children learn again, making our schools great again. >> dana: we first connected over covid and your concern about children and especially students who were basically shut out of schools because they were closed down episcopal will i in blue states. now we have this new information that the -- if you pull up here the math achievement. you can see the ten states that lost the least amount in math

and lost the most amount. that's also true for reading. we can pull that one up as well. in both cases, carol, students in blue states lost more ground since 2019. even though the schools opened back up eventually they can't seem to catch up. >> right. i recall those days, dana. i was so grateful to you for ringing the alarm. it was so obvious this would happen. they became -- schools became something that wasn't relevant to people anymore. teachers unions were pushing the idea schools were unnecessary. politicians like my governor at the time cuomo was saying we need to rethink education. maybe we don't need school buildings. maybe kids don't need to be in person. we knew at the time this was going to cause major damage. we were calling it out on obviously this is going to happen. so sad to watch. i knew even then the main thing was the people who could afford to get their kids extra help

would be okay. those kids would be fine. the people who were trapped in these schools closed because of teachers unions refused to go back to work would be the kids who suffered. that's exactly what we're seeing in the studies. kids are having the hardest time recovering. people in blue states having the hardest time recovering because schools closed the longest. it was obvious and exacerbated the problem of decline in our schools that began before covid. covid made it so much worse and teachers union caused this problem going forward. kids suffering now is all at the feet of the people who kept the schools closed. >> dana: and walking away from the science of reading and phonics, all of that. carol, thank you for being here with us. a lot of breaking news. great to have you. >> bill: we are live now at nato headquarters in brussels and expect pete hegseth to be at the podium and we'll carry his comments when they begin. stand by for that as we said at

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>> dana: right now secretary of defense pete hegseth is in brussels at the nato meeting giving a speech and taking questions. rfk, jr. vote is happening, too, let's listen to pete right now. >> nato great again.

it begins with defense spending but must also include reviving the trans atlantic industrial base rapidly technologies and establishing real deterrents and legisand -- after world war ii president eisenhower was one of nato's strongest supporters and believed in a strong relationship with europe. however, by the end of eisenhower's presidency, even he was concerned that europe was not shouldering enough of its own defense. nearly making in eisenhower's words, quote, a sucker out of uncle sam. like president eisenhower, this administration believes in alliances, deeply believes in

alliances. but make no mistake, president trump will not allow anyone turn uncle sam into uncle sucker. thank you and we're glad to take questions. >> let's start with the u.s. traveling tv pool. >> thank you, secretary hegseth. you have focused on what ukraine is giving up. what concessions with putin be asked to make? >> that's -- i would start by saying the arguments that have been made that somehow coming to the table right now is making concessions to vladimir putin or that the president of the shouldn't otherwise made i reject that. a reason negotiations are happening now a few weeks after

president trump was sworn in as president of the united states. vladimir putin responds to strength. in 2014 he invaded crimea not during the presidency of donald trump. there was no russian aggression from 2016 to 2020. in 2022, vladimir putin took aggression on ukraine. once again not while president trump was president of the united states. so any suggestion that president trump is doing anything other than negotiating from a position of strength is on its face a historical -- >> dana: secretary of defense pete hegseth answering a question what russia would be asked to give up in the deal. >> bill: we'll watch the senate floor, too, on kennedy's vote. >> dana: a lot going on. the president at 1:00 in the oval office. harris faulkner takes you through the next hour. >> harris: a lot o