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>> 7:00 a.m. on the east coast, valentine's day friday the 14th, and i am brian. steve and i -- hold on i'm yeti. >> ainsley: you didn't get your name on yours? >> steve: i do but i took it home to wash it. >> brian: i send it out. border czar tom homan and new york city mayor eric adams are both sitting down with us together on the curvy couch in a matter of about 35 minutes after their meeting yesterday. we will get the reflections. >> steve: that's right. we're going to ask mr. adams about this story on the cover of the "new york post" it says we need him alive. feds drop weaponized case against adams so he could fight migrant crime in new york city. >> ainsley: plus, president trump's delegation is in munich today, trying to bring an end to the war in ukraine. general jack keane is live with brian like he is every friday.

the second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ >> steve: happening today on valentine's day coincidentally. a federal judge in manhattan will hear arguments on whether elon musk department of government efficiency or doge should have access to treasury payment systems. >> ainsley: peter doocy joins us live. good morning to you, peter. >> peter: good morning. there are a lot of lawsuits happening. this white house is getting sued by a lot of people unhappy with the things president trump has done in the first three weeks. and for now. a federal judge here in washington, d.c. is actually siding with federal contractors suing the trump administration claiming freeze is hurting them. for now the trump team cannot cancel any of the foreign aid contracts that were here when they got here. a different federal judge is also slowing down the president's plan to wind down usaid until at least

february 21st, a week from today. the trump doj is arguing that president trump's winning campaign was one that promised to reduce certain foreign aid and the justice department lawyer arguing on the president's behalf said in the end, plaintiffs want a federal court to put usaid back to where it was under a previous president's foreign policy. they are panicking and elon may be triggering a little bit of insecurity. they are worried at us looking at exactly what they have done and exactly how much they've made. and this is now stopping. and it's a panic. it's very simple. >> peter: there is going to be a hearing whether or not doge workers can keep accessing payment treasury systems. why doge guys need that kind of access he basically said they don't but they can get it very easily because the treasury department does not have very good security systems in place. back to you. >> steve: i was going to say,

peter, following up on that, i think you asked karoline, the press secretary whether or not people had access to the systems and would they have write only or read and wright, right, you d it was read only. gave one person the power to change stuff. but that was an accident. >> peter: that will all come out in court today. i'm sure they will have every statement that president trump and karoline leavitt and anybody else from scott bessent, anybody else from the administration has made and they're going to have to sort it out with people testifying under oath later on. >> brian: i know they are going into the department of education to cancel some contracts there. now they are going to the irs. but, peter, they said the treasury can look at this stuff. so, isn't there a compromise there where there's a treasury person present goes through with their expertise? does that -- does that seem like a possibility? >> it seems like there is going to be some kind of a compromise.

and the doge people, who other judges have ruled, donald trump can go in and freeze federal funding as long as he is not breaking any laws. and, elon musk is saying that they are finding people receiving payments from social security, as part of these treasury payment portals for 150 years old. so the trump team will go in and argue look, there's money being wasted every week with these payments. that's what we need to go in and stop. if they are able to assure federal courts they are not just going to go in as chuck schumer would say with a meat ax and start messing up with people's social security systems, that is going to be probably result in some kind of a compromise. i have seen floating around there, one of the defenses of elon musk is what do you think is he going to do social security number. world's richest man open up a credit card and max it out at

600 bucks? we will see what the argument is. >> ainsley: thank you so much, peter. >> steve: stay tuned. >> ainsley: yesterday our border czar tom homan met with our mayor here in new york city eric adams to talk about our immigration problem. not only in the country but specifically new york city. because we have taken in 230,000 migrants. that's costing new york $7 billion. so they met to discuss that. both of them are coming up in about 30 minutes to talk about that meeting and what they came -- what their terms are. adams said yesterday, because tom homan was upset with him as you have been saying, steve, he said you are listening to me but you are not doing anything about it. yesterday, mayor adams said i plan on working on an executive order to allow his ice agents, tom homan's ice agents, country's to operate on rikers island. that's where the worst criminals and gang members are being held. people who have committed heinous crimes. and he said now i'm going to allow -- once i sign this executive order for ice to go in and to arrest these violent criminals or if they are already

arrested. but be able to retrieve them and deport them. > >> steve: right. the 90 minute meeting yesterday actually happened at the ice headquarters. the last time they got together it was at gracy mansion. this time it was on tom homan's turf. we will get into it with him have agreed the mayor has agreed to reopen rikers. the cover of the "new york post" though is the big story everybody is talking about regarding mr. adams. feds drop case so he can fight migrant crime we need him alive. down in the corner see that plus? prosecutor resigns in protest. that is an image of danielle says sown. she is the interim u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york she did not think she should be ordered to drop the charges so she resigned and essentially said they dropped the charges for quid pro quo. we'll drop your charges but you got to help us with the migrant

crime in new york city. she quit. and then two people in the public integrity unit at the doj quit. three others after that. so, the whole suggestion is this was a deal that adams struck with the trump administration, okay. we're going to get you off the hook meeting with tom homan. we can refile those charges any time we want so you better help us. >> brian: lt. governor delgado position on adams the new york deserves a mail accountable to the people not to the president. the acting attorney general said i'm not saying he is innocent or guilty, it's not about the case it's how this effects the election. this seems like annual aggressive prosecution for a mayor that stood up to a president who refused to give any funds 230,000 people there in and out, hotels, food, tent cities, soft-sided facilities,

they weren't writing any checks. when he spoke out, biden iced him out. joe biden was at the united nations. the mayor of new york, u.n. building is here, he asked for a meeting. biden wouldn't even make time for him. that's how bad it got. i believe on some level trump said this remimedz minds me what i went through so he acted. al smith dinner he said you are the worst mayor ever. mr. mayor, i know what you are going through. did it to me. >> ainsley: did it to you because you stood up against the biden administration. >> brian: kathy hochul could decide to remove the mayor just like. >> steve: she has the power. >> brian: she has the power. she is a governor. just like she could get rid of the attorney general. so she was asked by rachel maddow are you going to do that? listen. >> this is not supposed to happen in our system of justice. the bondi administration in that department of justice is already show are they're corrupt. the allegations are extremely concerning and serious. >> yes. >> but i cannot as the governor

of this state have a knee jerk politically motivated reaction like a lot of people are saying right now. i have to do it smart, what's right, and i'm consulting with other leaders and government at this time. >> ainsley: he is up for a very tough primary. he's running against the mayor. and there's talk that maybe he will run as a republican. we can ask him about that and see if he is willing to change parties. i don't know if he would because the chances of a republican really winning in our city pretty slim. we're a very liberal city as you know. there is talk that andrew cuomo might be running against him and might put his hat in the ring at some point soon. so we'll see. but, earlier today, vickie paladino, who is a new york city council woman on "fox & friends first." she was asked about it and she said i just hope he continues to stand up for what is right. she a republican. hard to wins a a republican. she said he just needs to keep fighting the fight because these are violent criminals and she said it's a great day for four

our city. >> steve: remember, the reason the acting attorney general said to the doj dismiss the charges, is specifically because of two things. one, it would interfere with the upcoming election that you just talked about, but, also, he needs to be helping this administration with the war on these criminal migrants in the city and in the country. the woman who resigned from the u.s. attorney said in her resignation letter that apparently new charges were about to be brought against mr. adams, and they included that he destroyed evidence, and that he was telling people to lie to the fbi. is, he is going to have plenty of time on "fox & friends." we're going to ask him about all of this stuff because i know you are very interested. >> brian: said he never did anything wrong to hurt the city. is he on the record saying that ainsley, just some perspective as you know, rudy giuliani republican. moderate republicans back then and mayor bloomberg was

successor, he originally ran as a republican, went to independent, and then went to democrat. and then w what the people have said to me why could bloomberg and giuliani win and why don't you think a republican could win now? infrastructure is not great here. he said bloomberg has so much money that's how he was able to overcome it. the question is with the maga money, with the super pacs, with the momentum the president has here, with how well he did in new york to other republicans and seeing how zeldin got within five points of new york stated made inroads. i don't think you can rule it out. i don't think money would be an issue for republican candidate if the republicans decide they had a shot at this. >> ainsley: you are right. it's common sense. and there is a common sense caucus with some republicans and moderate democrats that serve on city council. so we will see. >> steve: 7:11 in new york city and carley joins us with news about a drone. >> carley: big news out of eastern europe. a big blast rocking the chernobyl nuclear power plant overnight. ukrainian president volodymyr

zelenskyy says a russian drone hit the protective shell on the reactor but the kremlin denies that claim. thankfully radiation levels have not increased. chernobyl is, of course, the site of the deadly 1986 nuclear meltdown. the area around that plant is considered the exclusion zone and is essentially uninhabited. today closing arguments continue in the asap rocky trial. the rapper is facing two felony asalt charges related to a 2021 shooting. this comes after a. lister rihanna spotted bringing son to the courtroom yesterday. authorities claim they got into a fight that turned violent before the rapper opened fire. if found guilty, he could face decades in prison. and take a look at this wild video. a humpback whale off the coast of chile swallowed a kayaker kae and spits him out. he thought he was going to die. formafortunately he made it out

unharmed. frightening encounter of biblical proportions. guys, those are your headlines. >> steve: that's crazy. >> ainsley: see, when you don't believe jonah was swallowed by the whale. >> steve: are we sure that's not ai? >> carley: it's not. it really happened. i watched the interview of the guy. >> steve: all right. thank you, carley. >> brian: a little bit of a negative what is it about me that i got rejected so quick. >> ainsley: he didn't taste good. shot of the morning valentine's day and perfect spread of cupcakes for you and whoever you are sweet for. co-founder and ceo of baked by melissa, melissa ben that shy, what an honor. we see your stores all over manhattan and i love your story take them. >> i started baked my melissa after job. i was baking my tie-dye cupcakes i love baking my love language.

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called him first, i know for a fact is to find out if putin really wanted to negotiate. is this real for him? and, if that wasn't the case, the united states' position would be to apply some pressure you heard the president talk about that. sanctions and military presence and all the rest of it. continue to give ukraine all the weapons they need, et cetera, and build them up to put pressure on putin coming to the negotiating table. i think the president has got his answer. as of right now. putin is willing to come to the negotiating table: other thing is i know for a fact that the call with president zelenskyy was very positive in the mind of president zelenskyy. that's between president trump and president zelenskyy. talking about here. i can't speak for the details of it. in summary, zelenskyy got some assurances from the president. and that's what he wanted.

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there's no agreement. and clearly he is having major equipment short falls. there is a huge amount of pressure, plus, he has got everything on the table here in terms of his ability to continue in his presidency and his own personal survival. there was a strategic mistake made with the invasion. it didn't work. it failed. and here we are going into the third year as a result of the ukrainian stiffness, the innovation. the determination to fight for their people. and the fact that they could be doing so much better if biden had given them all the stuff that they actually needed when they needed it. but, all of that said, yes, putin -- putin is -- everything is at stake and on the table for him here. there is huge amount of pressure here. and that gives the united states and zelenskyy leverage in negotiations with him. >> brian: absolutely. they are going to meet face-to-face in saudi arabia. don't panic it. doesn't mean ukraine is out. it just means russia is first. general jack keane, thanks so much. >> yeah, great talking to you,

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britney, good morning to you. >> good morning, thanks for having me. you know, i went to the store yesterday a dozen eggs cost me 4 bucks $99 it's about bird flu, right? >> it is. we are losing a lot since we haven't gotten this quite under control yet. >> steve: indeed. how are you protecting your flock? >> at our farm we are kind of limiting visitors changing our clothes out when we go in and out of the bird enclosure. practicing good sanitation. >> sure. >> we have been stories, it seemed like once a day we talk about a different retailer. limiting the number of eggs that they will sell to people and there is a graphic right there, limit two cartons per customer

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>> steve: it has been a very busy week for new york city mayor eric adams, the department of justice earlier this week dropped corruption charges against him and yet he met with border czar tom homan about the next steps in fighting new york city's migrant crisis. >> brian: how did it go in mayor adams and tom homan join us now. guy, great to see you. good morning together. making news. mr. mayor from, your perspective, how did this meeting go? why was it necessary? >> good. i think and tom can speak for himself. i think he had a real level of frustration and he was trying to figure out a what's going on, eric? what is happening? we were able to get in a room and really articulate what are my powers? what are my authorities? and what are some of the things

that we need to legislatively address that is preventing us from doing what he would want to do and that is getting dangerous people off our streets. >> steve: right. tom homan, as you know, mayor, a couple days ago said he was angry at you and new york city because sounds like the last time you got together at gracy mansion you said some stuff maybe we would like to do this and that. mr. homan and, tom, can you start with this. you were frustrate that he had wouldn't doing enough. he wasn't keeping up his end of the deal? >> look, you know i have been on this network four years and camentd called the mayor out. i sat down with him i saw the cop in him. he really does want to do the right thing. is he a lifelong cop. he wants to help take public safety streets off the street making our streets safer. he also wants to help find these missing children many are here in the city we know that would will be working with his intelligence division, his

officers to save these children. many of these children are forced sex trafficking, many are in forced labor. we need to save them. i think everybody can agree to that i don't care what side of the political spectrum you are on. >> people want to hijack this narrative and turn it into a political narrative. where they are saying we need public safety. i requested a meeting i reached out to his team and said we wanted to sit down. this has been an issue. i was talking about before the election. the spring of 2022, you look at these quotes over and over again. we need to go after these dangerous people in our street. and now i have someone that understands that narrative and we are fighting together to get it done. >> ainsley: i know tom has been on our network so many times he felt like isis hands were tied under the last administration. you agreed to sign executive order to open up ice office at rikers island so dangerous criminals here illegally can be deported. tell the folks at home they will hear this and say oh, they will come after he next. you said these are the worst of the worst. who is at refresh my recollection island that will be deported? what have they done? >> you bring in two points where

the far left has hijacked this narrative. ice is running in our schools. ice is running in our churches. and they are bringing, creating this frenzy of they are not in the business of just grabbing children. and we need to, you know, just stop all this noise. rikers island, particularly after all the reforms, rikers island is now having some of the most dangerous people in our city. and by having ice on rikers island part of our gang intelligence, using our intel with nypd, correction officers who can identify those gangs inside and outside on the street, there was no reason they were removed from rikers island. and as i sat down with tom earlier, i said that we're going to look at all the legalese, i'm able to do an executive order to put them back on rikers island which they should be as part of our criminal justice apparatus. >> brian: you have a left leaning legislature. to nobody votes in new york so the same left wingers get never

time. if you had your druthers, would new york city be a sanctuary city? >> we will always be. this has always been a city of immigrants. >> brian: you think it should be. >> no, no. let me explain. this is getting conflated all the time. sanctuary stated is stated if you are in this city, and you are paying taxes, you should have access to the services. what i asked the city council to do, change the bill that was already in place, and modify it that if you are committing a crime, that we should be able to collaborate with ice even on civil enforcement, if you have committed a crime. that part of the bill. every day people here and moving to be documented. if they are going to school, working, paying taxes, then they should be able to provide police services, hospital services, children should go to school. >> brian: you don't agree with that, tom? >> i don't agree. i think a sanctuary city is a sanctuary for criminals. we walked out of the meeting yesterday. getting back in rikers island is

a game changer. we can get -- not only get the bad guys before they hit the street, the intelligence how tda operates, where they are operating. all this intelligence that gathers at rikers island we will have access to. no, i'm strike thely against sanctuary city status because i think sanctuaries are for criminals. >> steve: right. >> brian: they are a magnet. >> but the beauty is that we are allowed to disagree. ha ha ha, but we do agree on the fundamental that no matter who you are, it should be safe. that's what people are missing. my life is sitting down with people i don't agree with 100% of the time. i don't agree with myself 100% of the time. when tom and i are in a room, we're both saying one thing, no matter who you are, if you are hurting innocent people in this city, and in this country, you don't have a right to be in our country. >> steve: here's the thing. can you disagree on things but tom has made it very clear that if a politician stands in the way of the federal government executing the law, they are

going to bring charges against people like you and, in fact, we have seen the attorney general, pam bondi go after officials already. walls that part of the conversation yesterday? >> we talked very frankly about -- first of all, getting in rikers island, step one. that's the first step. we are working on some other things that we don't really want to talk about on open air because the city council will be putting road blocks upon us. the mayor and me have committed to several other things make the city safer. further collaboration, again, city council, i don't like them and mayor adams is dealing with sanctuary law, right? eo can't override. so we are working on some things to work around some of these things. >> steve: you are being very careful. >> i have to be very careful. the city council hate me. they don't want immigration enforcement in this city. >> ainsley: not all of them. >> collaborate on in a smart way

to get bad guys off the street. >> that's the goal. you said something very interesting. elected officials are stand standing in the way like me. i'm not standing in the way. i'm collaborating against some others that don't want to collaborate. >> steve: now you are clarkting. collaborating. >> go back to the spring of 2022 i was staying we need to get dangerous people off our street. >> steve: it wasn't happen. >> that's true. crime in our city remarkable levels. >> steve: did you help ice? >> in the level of enforcement for criminal actions, yes. the law says eric, you cannot do it for civil enforcement. for criminal actions, yes. the police department we have increasing number of officers assigned to our task force. every morning we meet with our representative city state and federal level public safety number one i always pursued. this everyone knows that's what i said. >> ainsley: what is city council

saying about you wanting to change the wording where we could go go after the illegals, even if they are paying taxes if they commit a crime? i saw vickie paladino, i know she is a new york city city council woman she is a republican. robert holden is a moderate democrat. >> both of them if you were to talk to them with that change they would tell you we agree with eric. the overwhelming number of council members made it clear they are not going to modify that law. >> ainsley: why? what is their reason? why would they protect the criminal? >> i think you look at many of the policies that are put in place antigun union. 20,000 guns removed off the street. 20,000 cops back in the subway system to bring down crime. all these initiatives i do around public safety is a constant fight with them because i think many people are articulating their personal reason and not the feeling that the city has. 78% of new yorkers stand with me and stand with what tom is doing about getting these dangerous individuals off the street. >> brian: the problem is we don't know they are dangerous

until they kill like this guy who put this woman on fire fell asleep on the subway. he will didn't have a record, after he lit up the woman on fire, now he's a problem. he will didn't belong here. same thing with laken riley's killer who was housed here, went to georgia and killed. even though you say we want to be open to people. we don't know these guys are criminals until they act. and then it's too late. then they become a problem. if they never got here, they wouldn't be a problem. >> that's what's good what we are doing right now what tom, the border czar has done. i have said it over and over again. we need to control our borders and not allow people to come into the country, gang members coming into the country, people who are here to commit crime i think what we witnessed the border czar has done, we have seen a substantial decrease in that flow. >> brian: tom, you know the nypd, how frustrated are they that they can't fully have your back be able to tell people exactly where these guys are, be able to go into these raids with you? >> they are frustrated. i mean, the nypd wants to

protect their streets, too. they want it enforce the law and collaborate with us. i don't think i met a single uniform four years i come to the studio sit out front i shake every one of their hands. we had dinner with officers last night not only from nypd. we had dinner with officers from newark. and from philadelphia. we had a whole table full of officers that want to do the right thing. they want to collaborate with ice. i think yesterday's meeting -- i came to new york city. i wasn't going to leave without nothing. i did the last time. i told him i'm not leaving until i got something. and we got -- back into rikers that's huge. other things we are working on. i'm hoping and now i got him on the couch in front of millions of people he can't back away from this now. right? i think you are going to see things move in the right direction. i really truly believe that. >> we don't want to impression there is no collaboration around criminal justice. we collaborated with ice to take down a very dangerous gang member trying to put grenades in our city. fought with a gun.

there is real collaboration with hide da, our criminal justice apparatus on the city state and federal level. we want ice to be part of that as well. >> steve: you have been in the news all week. >> yes. >> steve: the department of justice dropped the criminal corruption charges against you the u.s. attorney here in new york city southern district she quit yesterday, the acting u.s. attorney and so did five members of the department of justice because they felt like being forced by the department of justice to deron the corruption charges was inappropriate and they should not have asked. what she said was she said you offered to help with the migration problem and the immigration agenda in exchange for the case being dropped. >> think about that. think about that. think about my attorney alex spira one of the top trial attorneys in the country. imagine him going inside saying

that the only way mayor adams is going to assist in immigration, children services calling for since 2022, is if you drop the charges. that's quid pro quo. that's a crime. it took o her three weeks a rept in front of her a criminal action? come on, this is silly. >> brian: said -- they said when they gave you -- when they dropped the charges, says it's not because we think he's innocent. it says we think it effects elections. it's going to effect his re-election. and we think that was wrong? >> i'm sorry who said that? >> brian: when the department of justice dropped the charges, they said it's not because they think the charges were unjust or that you were innocent, but they were doing the charges they feel affected an election. >> go deeper into what they wrote. they articulated exactly weaponization. when you looked at leg room turning into bribery because i asked for a governmental entity to do a building inspection. we needed to be clear on the

root of all of this. and the. >> brian: turkish embassy. >> exactly. main justice i learned so much through this whole process. they review cases to determine moving forward or not. as my attorney articulated. heart what i was being charged with. i was the at the time. not say pass someone can do you an inspection. >> ainsley: came out of out of retirement twice to work for him and not making that much money. you are fighting for this country and keep it up. you talked to the president. the president was asked if this was quid pro quo, if he had anything to do with it and he said he didn't. >> i believe the president. look, the president is doing a great job. i want to say, look, i worked for six presidents. i think president trump is the greatest president in my lifetime. he proves it every day. every day he proves to me why he is the greatest president of my lifetime. border snubs are down over 90%

in three weeks. think about that. i worked hard at it, kristi noem is working hard at it. the chief patrol agent working hard at it. it was president trump's executive orders that was a game changer. we got over 16,000 people arrested interior. that's three times more than joe biden had a year from now but it's not enough. we got to do more. with president trump's leadership, when he had 90% less people coming across the border, how many women aren't being raped by the cartels? how many children aren't drowning? how many women and children aren't being sex trafficked in this country? president trump is a game changer. every day i will say it a hundred times every day he proves to me why he is the greatest president of my lifetime. >> steve: you know, tom, one of the reasons in addition to not interfering with your election coming up. one of the other things was they needed you to essentially assist tom with the migration problem here in new york city. >> what does that look like? people need to say what that looks like.

what that looks likes a i say every morning we meet with hida. federal state and law enforcement agencies. >> we have a seat at the table. >> steve: that's good because, as you know, mayor, the way this particular case is being handled right now. they can refile the charges at any time. if you don't help them, they could refile the charges. >> that's not what they said. >> they can refile the charges. >> no. >> steve: right? >> first of all, i don't get into the legalese. i have an attorney to do that and i pay a lot for that what we need to be clear on, if the mayor of the city of new york is unable to collaborate or deal with intelligence information, sit down about federal and state agencies and sit down to coordinate. we are still under terrorist threat. illegal gangs in our community bringing did you know b. destruction that ice has attempted to weed out. if i can't coordinate that, that's a public safety issue. we should put public safety first. >> brian: governor hochul said last night with rachel maddow

that she would consider removing you. how would you feel about that? >> she has her role, i have my role. and throughout this entire ordeal, which i think no american should have to go through, to to torment a 15 month that my family and i had to endure for something i didn't do. i didn't do anything wrong. throughout the entire ordeal i said one thing, my attorney will handle the legal part. i'm going to handle running the city. we returned jobs to our city. our cities are getting safer, we're building housing. i think this is a great american narrative i stood focused on what i was elected to do. >> governor hochul is an embarrassment to the position she holds. she stands media after someone is burned alive subway and stands in front of a tv camera i think criminal alien should be removed, too. when they pull a vehicle over, law enforcement, you are in law enforcement your whole career what's the first thing you would do run license plate. is there a warrant for these people? are they dangerous? car stolen?

all these things, right? do you know ice and cbp can't run dmv data on license plate. pulling people over. >> steve: green light law. >> green light law. one point she is saying i think criminals should be removed too, she locks us out of dmv data. fed zone. would we do that? no, officer safety is paramount. putting the men and women of ice at risk every day. the job is already dangerous. governor hochul needs to be removed. need to be removed needs to be her. she supports sanctuary policies. >> brian: i don't know anyone who thinks she is doing a good job. she is an embarrassment. >> ainsley: mr. mayor, thank you. migrant shelter mega migrant shelter built in the bronx. we interviewed a representative from the bronx. he talks to everyone on the street not one person wants that facility built. what's the status on that? >> that's a great -- you know what's interesting? if i go to anywhere in the city, when i had 20 or 20,000 migrants here, anywhere in the city and ask who would like a shelter there? not one elected would raise their hand.

then you ask them the next question, how many of you went to washington, d.c. previous administration and said you need to stop this? i took 10 trips there so you cannot reap your concern merely from the sterilized environment of your office space. they should have been with us saying we need to stop this flow. and they weren't. and so the shelters have to go somewhere. >> steve: how long is the federal government going to be paying for the roosevelt hotel or any of these other sanctuary hotels? >> we're continuing to close them down because of the job that we did. 180,000 out of our system. we closed down floyd field. more than one at a time. we have to close down as the population decreased. we put in place a 30 and 60 day plan. no one could stay longer than that. workers re-election. call for help iced you out. >> right. that's the good plan. ice. >> the days of the federal government paying these migrant centers are over.

>> brian: good. mr. mayor, you are going to run for re-election. >> run on the democratic line. we petitioned him to start, started soon. running as a democrat, there's a many democrats look at the 78% that believe what we do ice is doing about getting dangerous people out. i think we have to get people out to vote. that is the problem. >> brian: you are losing by about 25 points to former governor cuomo who wants to be mayor cuomo. >> listen to this. i had another andrew in my previous race. he was beating me by double digits in february. we don't call andrew yang mayor. we call eric adams mayor. never give up. new yorkers never give up. people had me gone months ago. but you know what? i'm sitting on your couch with friends. >> steve: talking about the new alliance between ice and adams. thank you very much for coming. >> thank you. alliance was never -- >> brian: up early anyway. >> if he doesn't com