all right. if people would like more information about your club, how do you join the mont claire pickleball club? >> three locations around new jersey. based. check us out online. a lot of people have found relationships. one of our coaches met his fiance playing pickel ball. >> steve: a day of love. give them a hand. you hit that great. thank you very much. go out and have a great valentine's day. my wife is calling the shots. guys, thank you very much. see you next week on "fox & friends" everybody. >> bill: here we go friday. new day for doge and president trump and elon musk moving ahead

now with downsizing federal agencies and routing out waste. will it lead to a leaner and more effective government? we'll find out in time. i'm bill hemmer. >> dana: the weeks go by fast. i feel like it was last friday indeed. good to be with you today. i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." the doge directive designed to cut down on waste. there is a lot to shoot at. the government estimates it loses up to 521 billion a year to fraud. >> bill: a report from the government accountability office released under the biden administration a year ago. meanwhile you have democrats and federal workers protesting mass layoffs that could impact in the end possibly hundreds of thousands of people. >> dana: peter doocy is reporting live from the white house to get us going today. hi, peter. >> dana, as watchdogs crush the

number. the fraud part might cost the feds 233 and 521 billion with a b dollars every single year. the next agency under the microscope will be the i.r.s. >> i don't know what we'll find at the i.r.s. i can tell you with the i.r.s., i have three goals. collections, privacy, and customer service. we will do a big i.t. upgrade and we'll see where that takes us. >> this is where it will take them according to new numbers from the government accountability office. look at this graphic. 23% of the treasury's budget may be going to things considered waste, fraud and abuse. 12% at the labor department. 10% at the v.a. 9% at the hhs. the list is long and it goes on. elon musk took a break from leading the cost cutting effort to meet india's prime minister yesterday. modi says they go way back.

>> today he came to meet me along with all his family. with his children and so we had a nice discussion as far as -- is concerned. >> the modi/musk meeting happened. white house officials say they are confident musk doesn't have conflicts of interest with the doge effort. president trump said the meeting was probably about one of musk's businesses. >> president trump: they met and i assume he wants to do business in india. but india is a very hard place to do business in because of the tariffs. i would imagine he met possibly because he is running a company. >> musk is looking to another billionaire businessman to help with the cost cutting effort at the eeob. "new york times" is reporting he

is bringing in the co-founder of airbnb, a close personal friend. >> bill: katie pavlich, nice to see you. getting details in helping us understand the layoffs, all right? apparently if you are a new hire you are considered to be still on probation. according to government data 280,000 government workers right now are on probation. that would be the low hanging fruit in all this. late last night we found out there was a visit to the i.r.s. roll this sound bite from the president saying he won't shut it down but they will look at it. watch. >> do you expect to close the i.r.s. or what are you expecting? >> president trump: no. but i think that the internal revenue service will be looked at like everybody else. just about everybody will be looked at. >> bill: next in line, right? >> people should expect that no

government -- federal government agency goes unscathed. they are going through line by line through the federal government to find this waste and abuse. they have backup as you guys noted that gao report shows how much waste there is. it's not like this hasn't been tried or pointed out before. admittedly you have former obama staffers saying we knew about a lot of this waste. we have this government agencies playing it out. politicians have failed to do something about it. now you have some of the most successful businessmen in the entire world president donald trump and elon musk coming in as private sector citizens and their experience and saying okay, we will do something about all the things we're finding and what we know about. there are a couple of different categories here. there is, of course, the waste and abuse. there is the fraud. also there are lots of big questions about the corruption given you are seeing that elon musk is finding they are sending payments out without any real

subject line or there is duplication and as you look at the government as we know, more people and more money doesn't necessarily mean more efficiency and this is an issue that democrats and republicans have talked about for many years to try to tackle. elon musk and donald trump are actually trying to do something to solve this problem. >> dana: i'm glad you brought that up. a flashback of previous government officials saying the same thing. >> this report tells us how to cut waste, cut red tape, streamline the bureaucracy and create a government that works better and costs less. >> i've read it. where it says the president should, the president will. >> one of the commitments i made to the american people was that we would do a better job here in washington in rooting out wasteful spending. that's why we launched on our own initiative the campaign to cut waste. >> dana: and right now you have the federal government at its least popular than it has been

in many years. part of the idea is if not now, when? go forward and try to get it done? >> the timing is also great because it is tax season. the average american now is filing their tax returns and looking at how much money they send the federal government every single year. at the same time the white house and doge is being transparent putting out all these programs and blank checks going out the door for the things that americans are not seeing in return. everyone -- it is a taker. every single program is funded by the work of the american taxpayer and that's something that i think you are seeing elon musk and donald trump repeat in defense of respecting that hard work and people's time. they're smart to have this ready to go on day one. very clear they were working on this over the past four years. you are seeing pushback with the judges and courts and a number of members of congress particularly democratic side

complaining and trying to stop this. and maybe we'll see republicans on capitol hill do something about the actual budget here when we get rolling around to march on these issues. but the fact is it is known widely in d.c. there is lots of waste, fraud and abuse. interesting there is so much protesting about the people coming in to change the culture inside the agencies. >> bill: protest happening outside of hhs. this is videotape. that's live, okay. so still underway. i don't know how many people are out there. it will continue. meanwhile you have got a lone voice in the woods here. dean phillips is a democrat from minnesota and he is saying hey, you won't beat them, join them essentially. here is phillips on that. watch. >> democrats are only focused on one thing right now. mr. musk. he is quite popular. i think we miss the boat as democrats. all i'm saying is sometimes it's better to join them and actually

play a role in how this strategy works rather than so pathetically, frankly, trying to combat something that clearly is a steam roller and democrats are being steam rolled. i'm deeply concerned about that. >> bill: last comment on that. >> elon musk was an obama guy. then you have the biden administration come in and basically ignore and punish him for all of the success he has had in business. now he is working for donald trump to make the government more efficient, which is really a bipartisan issue the american people agree with. democrats are choosing things to go after trump on early on that the american people are actually in favor of. so democrats are still doing some soul searching. dean phillips has been sounding the alarm for a long time how far left the party has gone and what their priorities are. but so far you are seeing this panic over elon musk, a special government employee, just like anita dunn was under the biden

administration. >> dana: great to have you on "america's newsroom." thank you so much. bye-bye. new york city mayor eric adams in lock step with the trump administration now. he met with tom homan yesterday and agreed to let ice agents operate inside ryker's island. they joined "fox & friends" a couple hours ago. >> ryker's island is having some of the most dangerous people in our city. by having ice on ryker's island using our intelligence we can identify the gangs inside and outside on the street. >> it is a game changer. now we'll get the bad guys before they hit the street. the intelligence of how tda operates. where they are operating. all the intelligence to gather we'll have access to. >> dana: hard to imagine that wasn't happening before but it wasn't. so maybe now we get more info. >> bill: ice goes out to

ryker's, the prison in new york. dmv is off limits. this green light law is significant. i thought when homan was talking about this we talked with turley about it. if you are a cop and pull someone over and you run the license for you or me and if you've got an outstanding warrant or felon you are going to straight to jail. this law enables illegals to be protected in a way that i don't think a lot of people really understand. i thought it was an extraordinary answer. >> dana: judge janine talked about it on "the five." nobody else can get that deal. maybe they won't anymore either. >> bill: speaking of homan and immigration. quiet on the southern front. illegal border crossings have fallen to near record lows. trump administration on pace to see the fewest crossings in 60 years. fox had an exclusive ride along with ice agents making a series of arrests in houston and brooke

taylor was with them. what did you find out and what did you see? hello. >> yeah, we got this exclusive look at the day-to-day operations here at ice in houston. the ero officers tell me with this added priority to go after criminal illegal aliens they see two to three times the number of arrests in the last few weeks. >> targets coming to the house. >> removal operations officers have been watching his moments and patterns for days now. the suspect, an illegal migrant from mexico convicted for alien smuggling and already removed from the u.s. in 2005 but snuck back in. >> we are looking at public safety threats and national security threats. they had due process. never shown up for deportation. those are the primary targets now. >> how many people are on the target list? >> multiple lists. it's hard to say a specific

number. >> dozens, hundreds? >> thousands on the list. >> next on their list an illegal migrant from honduras convicted of indecency and exposure to a child. >> according to ice the 28-year-old was already deported twice and slipped back into the u.s. illegally sometime after 2022. >> i see an order or something. >> we are trying to keep the community safe. immigrant and u.s. citizen community, everybody. >> in houston, ero officers say they feel sported and it's an all hands on deck approach collaborating with all the agencies. all with a common goal. >> see criminals taken out of the community so they can't reoffend. what crime did you prevent by taking folks out of the community? i try to remind my folks of that all the time. >> right as we were about to go

on air i got a call from one of the ice officers where he told us second illegal criminal migrant you saw is wanted in his home country. he has a red warrant for that child sexual assault conviction. >> bill: a different story in texas than places like new york. good reporting there on that exclusive report out of houston. thanks, good to see you. spotlight on the world stage turning to the vice president jd vance, how he is pushing the trump foreign policy agenda at a critical security conference that is underway today in munich, germany. >> dana: hamas set to release three hostages including an american. will it be okay with trump's ultimatum? >> bill: rfk, jr. taking the reins of health secretary confirmed and taking the oath. confirmations for team trump coming at a breakneck pace. >> we need to really change

policies. it isn't a snap program and food programs. they're the federal government and medicaid is paying fort and we shouldn't be subsidizing people eating poison.

(vo) if you're only maxing out a 401k, you can add a robinhood ira with a 3% contribution boost. (nasa pilot vo) roger that. (vo) robinhood gold gives you an instant 3% match on your annual ira contributions. ♪

(agent) we've always said never sell a house in the winter. that's not true. with opendoor, you can skip the showings and get a real cash offer. you are disguising my voice, right? (director) ahhh, of course. (agent with altered voice) foof, just checking. (vo) it's true. opendoor makes selling easy, in any season. this is the tempur-pedic breeze mattress, and it's designed to help you feel cool. so, no more sweating all night... no kicking off the covers... or blasting the air conditioning. because only the tempur-pedic breeze is made with our one-of-a-kind cooling technology — that pulls heat away from your body. so, the mattress feels up to 10 degrees cooler

all night long. during our presidents day sale, save up to $500 on select adjustable mattress sets. shop now at tempurpedic.com. (♪) what do a neurosurgeon, a country artist, and a television & radio host have in common? they all saw the writing on the wall. big bank sharing your financial information with big government. join them as owners in old glory bank - the pro-america online bank that protects your privacy, security, and liberty. invest today at own.oldglorybank

>> europe faces many challenges but the crisis this continent faces right now, the crisis i believe we all face together, is one of our own making. >> bill: from a moment ago in munich, germany, vice president jd vance at the security conference on tap today, a meeting with zelenskyy out of ukraine. we're watching that today. madeleine, good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. vice president jd vance is meeting with ukrainian president zelenskyy later today and we'll

get more clarity regarding the u.s. approach to ukraine after a whirlwind of developments this week. new this morning vance told the "wall street journal" the u.s. would hit russia with sanctions and even potentially military action if it does not agree to a peace deal with ukraine. earlier this week defense secretary pete hegseth ruled out sending troops to ukraine. hegseth said the u.s. is considering a range of options to bring the war in ukraine to an end. on that he says there was no daylight between him and the vice president. >> we're collective advocates on behalf of the president. he reserves the right to have any option as he discusses troops and partnerships and investment opportunities and front line limits. those are all what president trump will negotiate with his counterparts. >> today zelenskyy said a drone hit the protective shell covering the chernomyrdin power

plant blaming russia saying putin is not preparing for negotiations. russia is denying any involvement. ukraine isn't the only issue the vice president is addressing in munich. vance also criticized what he says has been an effort by european nations to silence or undercut conservative perspective and voices. he is calling on nato members to spend more on defense. nato secretary general agrees. >> europe is stepping up. you are right. it has to be done. we have to grow up in that sense and spend much more. >> secretary of state marco rubio is expected to join vance for his meeting with zelenskyy. he was delayed after a mechanical issue with his plane forced him to go to d.c. and now in munich. >> bill: everybody is there. thank you live in d.c. for us. appreciate that. dana, what's next? >> dana: james rich of idaho, the chairman of the senate foreign relations commission was on that delayed flight with secretary rubio and just arrived in munich. an important meeting.

ukraine and russia, the war very much on everyone's minds. president trump talked about it yesterday. >> when putin says he really wants peace, do you believe him? >> president trump: i believe he wants piece. i believe president putin when i spoke to him yesterday. i know him very well. i think he wants peace. i think he would tell me if he didn't. i would like to see peace. >> do you trust putin? >> president trump: yeah, i believe he would like to see something happen. i trust him on this subject. i think he would like to see something happen. >> dana: where does ukraine fit in here? >> well, look, the president speaks very frankly on this and putin has made a lot of mistakes in starting the war, conducting the war and everything else. i hope he does not make the mistake of not listening very carefully to what president trump is saying. president trump is serious. he wants to see this over.

having said that, you've heard the discussions that have been going on in the last couple of days. nothing is off the table. >> dana: okay. one of the things that zelenskyy said to trump apparently is putin pretends to want peace because he is afraid of you. that might be true. what do you think? >> well, it's hard to say. it's hard to judge what these people are thinking. but right now there is a lot of pushing and shoving because they haven't gotten down to talking about details. the good news is everybody is talking about getting together to talk. that's a good thing. they need to do that. as that unfolds, we'll get more out of this. right now there is a little pushing and shoving going on as happens frequently before these kind of negotiations start. >> dana: now at least there is a conversation happening. the last few years it felt like it was stalled. also i wanted to ask you about this. tomorrow hamas is going to

release three hostages. here are their names, put them on the board for everyone to see. one of them is an israeli american and that is mr. chen. one of the things president trump said is that they would all be released by noon tomorrow or all hell would break loose. doesn't look like that will happen. do you have any thoughts or information about what we might be seeing if tomorrow these hostages are released and in similar condition as the ones from last week? >> well first of all, let me say that when you listen to president trump what he said -- i know this because i have talked to him about this. he is getting really im patient with hamas. they never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. and they really should not mess around with president trump. they are messing with the wrong guy and getting to a point where he is getting pretty disgusted with this. they need to listen carefully to what he says. >> dana: would you -- would you anticipate some additional

action or allowing israel to do what it needs to do if they make that decision? >> well, if they don't keep the agreement that they made. the president was very clear on that. that he will encourage the israelis to do what they need to do to bring this thing to a conclusion and bring it to an end. again, everybody wants this over. hamas has shown really no inclination to play ball and like i said, the president is getting pretty impatient and disgusted with it. >> dana: we all are and pray for their safety and for the hostage families who are waiting on pins and needles to see their loved ones. thank you so much, senator, glad you got there safely. >> thank you. >> dana: take care. >> bill: so the pentagon takes on a new look. defense secretary hegseth working out with u.s. troops again as he begins to implement the trump agenda on the world stage. have a look at that. might see him in a couple

minutes as well. president trump sounding off on new tariffs. who they target and how they could lead to more american-made goods sold around the world. >> now we can see that are your friends taking advantage of you? president trump is talking about reciprocal tariff? what is wrong with that? if you have a tariff, we'll put in the same level. if you take it to zero, we'll take it to zero.

it's time to feed the dogs real food in the right amount. a healthy weight can help dogs live a longer and happier life. the farmer's dog makes weight management easy with fresh food pre-portioned for your dog's needs. it's an idea whose time has come. do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy - even a term policy - for an immediate cash payment. we thought we had planned carefully for our retirement. but we quickly realized we needed a way to supplement our income. if you have $100,000 or more of life insurance, you may qualify to sell your policy. don't cancel

or let your policy lapse without finding out what it's worth. visit coventrydirect.com to find out if your policy qualifies. or call the number on your screen. coventry direct, redefining insurance. are you looking for a walk in tub for you or someone you love? well, look no further. a safe step walk-in tub is the best in its class. now, for a limited time when you purchase your brand-new safe step walk-in tub, you'll receive a free safety package! and if you call today, you'll also receive $1,500 off your entire order. yes, $1,500 off! call today and receive a free safety package plus $1,500 off!

♪

(male vo) big. (female vo) small. essential. (male vo) big. small. essential. (female vo) big. small. (male vo) essential. (female vo) grande. (male vo) pequeño. (female vo) esencial. no matter what business you're in, verizon business has the network and solutions you need to power it. >> president trump: i tell you what i think reciprocal tariffs, two words. reciprocal, reciprocal makes tariffs refilly fair. we think interest rates will be coming down because of things that happen and they go hand in hand with the tariffs. we think that -- we think that the prices for some things, many things could be all things will go down. ultimately will go down. >> bill: he said it was the big

one, reciprocal tariffs they apply to a number of countries now. the mark-up on wall street trading slightly lower. .10%. come here and i will show you the board what trump did yesterday and kind of how the economic world reacted. the announcement comes around 2:00. you see the big jump on the dow. maybe it stays, maybe it doesn't. we'll see day-by-day. the reason this deal, they are not immediate. maybe they happen in a month or two months or three months. one date thrown out that suggested april 2nd when the tariffs would be enacted here. this is what we talk about when we talk about reciprocal trade. two countries, two business partners. they're in this deal with mutual tariffs. one for the other. they tax each other's goods. when one feels the other is not in fair trade you start to get retaliation. that's where trump is at the moment. then we measure the impact. will the costs go up? he argues maybe in the short run

in the long run he believes more jobs will come back to the country and prices will go lower. that's trump's argument now on the impact. now we get to the negotiations stage which could happen at any point. something very interesting here on the world map. there are a lot of numbers behind me. think about two numbers for the sake of this argument, all right? the deeper the red, the higher the tariff you charge. the lower the color, the lower your number. united states is at 3%. globally that's about as low as you can go. i look at countries like ethiopia, iran, up around 20%. look at india. at 17%. just yesterday you had the prime minister there visiting the oval office. no doubt talking about this. steve moore knows it well. good morning to you. trump is making -- i will let him make the case about this. roll the sound bite. watch. >> when do you think you will raise tariffs on an annual

basis? >> president trump: that's the most interesting question. i think it will be a staggering amount. it will be the external revenue service. that was the name that was devised by a few of us. i think it will be a staggering amount. >> bill: short term prices may go higher. does that bother you? >> i don't like inflation, nobody likes inflation. let me commend you. your analysis was excellent what is being proposed here. you have known me a long time. i'm a free trade guy and believes low tariffs are a good thing for the united states. so i don't like the steel tariffs. i think that's a bad idea. what trump is talking about here is a brand-new paradigm on trade. he is simply saying look, as your map shows, we have the lowest tariffs in the world war. we're down here and the rest of the world is way up here. so he is saying to sees other countries that have to trade

with the united states, we're the alpha male economy either you lower your tariffs or we'll raise our tariffs to your level. now, that is something that i think trump is going to win this fight because i think at the end of the day, bill, i'm not certain about this but i think this is the way it will work out. china and japan and the u.k. and the europeans with very high tariff rates will be forced to lower their tariffs on america and that will be a good thing for everyone. incidentally, at the end of the day if this works out, we'll have freer and fairer trade all over the world. >> bill: we'll see how that goes. i mention april 2nd. that was a date that was put out there by howard lutnick. you could start negotiating this weekend with some countries if you wanted to. "wall street journal." tariff stress test, markets rally as he delays reciprocal levies but

they will be back. speaking of coming back hakeem jeffries is coming for trump and guys like you, okay? here is his argument from the democratic side. >> republicans repeatedly promised to lower the high cost of living in the united states of america. yet they have failed to do a single thing to lower housing costs, lower grocery costs, lower insurance costs. in fact, inflation is going up under this administration. and republican complete control of government, it is not going down. >> bill: it is mid february. we know what the trump team is saying. this is biden's inflation. what is the the window, steve? how much time does the administration have right now? >> well, what hakeem jeffries said was truly laughable. it is true that the inflation

rate is creeping up. i've been saying this for six months. watch out for inflation. where did it come? it came from the $7 trillion spending spree under joe biden and they printed all this money and day lugeed the american economy with cheap money and the prices went through the roof. now the last three months of the biden presidency showed that inflation is going up again. trump wasn't even president, hakeem jeffries, when the inflation went up. you are talking about what happened under biden, not trump. now i believe there is a reason they call myself a supply cider. you have others, we want to increase the productive capacity of the united states so we produce more goods and services so prices will fall. now think about this. we'll cut taxes, that will increase production. we'll produce more oil and gas and coal and nuclear power. that will reduce energy prices. we deregulate the economy.

all those things will bring inflation down, not up. we know it will work. it worked in trump's first term when the average inflation rate was 1.9%, not 9% like we had under biden. >> bill: next time we get hakeem jeffries and we'll go toe-to-toe. >> let's do it. i'm ready to rumble. >> bill: appreciate that. have a good weekend. >> dana: tiktok returns to several app stores. why the social media platform is back, baby, it is back. republican lieders throwing their support behind trump's effort to cuss wasteful government spending. john thune is next on the g.o.p.'s plan. . 30%! as a veteran family, you can use your va cash out benefit to get the newday 100 that lets you borrow up to 100% of your home's value. not just 80% like some banks. 100% means you get more cash to pay off your high rate credit cards and your car loan.

no one approves veterans like newday. call now: -844-980-2907. ♪ ("born to be wild" by steppenwolf) ♪ ♪ get your motor runnin'! ♪ (car horns blare) come on! ♪ head out on the highway! ♪ crowd: hey! hey! hey! b-12. bingo! (buttons snap) (inhaling furiously) (explosion) (car revs) (cheering and laughter) (♪) don't worry, girls! i've got weathertech. all together: ♪ born to be wild! ♪ for whatever comes your way, there's weathertech.

still congested? nope! uh oh. mucinex 2-in-1 saline nasal spray. spray goodbye. aaaaaaahhhhh! mucinex 2-in-1 saline nasal spray

with a gentle mist and innovative power-jet. spray goodbye to congestion. it's comeback season! ♪ ♪ ♪ your own personal jesus ♪ ♪ ♪ someone to hear your prayers, ♪ ♪ someone who's there. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ reach out and touch faith ♪

>> bill: this afternoon a federal judge in manhattan will hear arguments whether or not doge should have access to treasury payment systems. you have 19 democratic state attorneys general suing the administration and bryan llenas is waiting for an order. outside the courthouse in lower manhattan. >> good morning. just in few hours lawyers representing president trump and his treasury department will try to convince a federal judge to lift a temporary restraining order that is currently blocking elon musk and doge from getting

direct access to a majority of the u.s. government's spending. they want access to the treasury department central payment system called the bureau of fiscal service accounts for 90% of annual federal payments for $5 trillion. according to government accountability office estimates, up to 10% of that money could be lost every year to fraud. the payment system is how most money is disbursed to federal agencies including social security payments, veterans benefits, tax refunds and federal grant money given to states like for medicaid. new york's attorney general james and 18 other a.g.s argue it is unlawful to give access to americans' most private financial data to doge political appointees rather than to the career civil servants who have security clearances. the attorneys general also argue that doge's access is unconstitutional. this is one of at least 14

lawsuits, bill, against doge nationwide. president trump's lawyers, bill, argue it is actually -- this is an unconstitutional encroachment on the power of the executive branch. >> bill: it's a battle, man, wow. bryan llenas, thank you. see if they decide this afternoon. thank you for that. >> dana: republicans seem to be all on the same page at least for now. axios reporting g.o.p. leaders in both chambers on capitol hill vow to turn doge's spending cuts into real legislation. senate majority leader john thune is with us today. i'm curious about the calls you get from home into your office about doge. >> at least by and large people are very supportive. we are, too. it is a scrub long overdue. there are so many systems in our federal government that are antiquated. people operating in silos, bureaucracies built on top of

bureaucracies. modernizing the federal government. using technology to make it more efficient. this is a long overdue process. i'm delighted it is happening and we want to do everything we can to be supportive. >> bill: numbers this morning i shared it with katie pavlich when she was on. what we're getting thus far. 280,000 government workers on probation level. they have been employed fewer than 24 months and they could all be out of a job. at the veterans affairs they think they could save $98 million. they would take that money and not put it back in the government coffers but put it toward healthcare benefits and services for the v.a. which would be good as well. you won't save that money. at the moment, 3% of the civilian workforce, about 75,000, have volunteered to take the buy-out if that buy-out holds up in court. that's a lot but as you look at this right now what do you think the real number could be in the end or the percentage?

>> it is hard to say how many will actually take up the offer on the buy-out. i don't think there is any question, bill, there is an enormous amount of room for reduction in force. the fact borne out by a study done not long ago and reported by "the new york times" that only 6% of the federal workforce is back in the office full-time. think about that. there are some offices or jobs you can do remotely. but the federal government, the federal workforce, this like i said is long overdue. it will take somebody probably there the outside, somebody like elon musk to be able to do it right. obviously they will identify some things that perhaps can't be changed or fixed but a ton of stuff out there, i think, that could be run better. think about it. the inefficiency is our federal government is baked in over decades. >> dana: you probably ran on the issue when you first ran for office. >> bill: everybody does. >> dana: the other thing is that

president trump is going to get his cabinet. >> right. >> dana: one of the reasons he will get it you were able to shepherd that through. the pace to some people might not make sense. given the rules in place for how long you have to have debate seems to me you've done a pretty good job. >> we have tried to manage the clock. you are right, it is hard and particularly you have a lot of democrat resistance, which we do. we have to work through that. but we've figured out ways to manage the clock in a way i think maximizes the ability for the president to get his team in place as quickly as possible and we'll continue to do that. >> dana: if you look at the chart we can see the red line is the number you have been able to get done in the same amount of time. >> but it takes -- it takes a team effort, which we've had. members have been good and the president will have the team he wants to implement his agenda that we fully support and do everything we can to see that gets done as well. by supporting him where necessary with legislative

initiatives and activity as well. >> bill: you will have a big battle. what you will do on the budget. how you will reconcile that with the house and whether it's one, big, beautiful bill or break it up in two. i don't know when that debate is decided. >> we're in the process right now. we have the same end result, end goal. we want to get to the same destination. the house and senate operate differently clearly and we have procedural issues in the senate we have to deal with. these efforts are going to merge at some point. we'll link up with the house and get something to the president that he can eventually sign into law. but in the meantime obviously what i tell people when they ask me how much of this can you do. i tell them the two numbers most important numbers, even with the use of budget reconciliation which enables us to do legislation in the senate with a 51 vote majority instead of the usual 60 vote majority. 218 and 51 are the numbers.

218 to pass anything in the house and 51 to get anything clue the senate. what are the limits and opportunities and possibilities out there what we can do? those are the numbers most important. >> bill: it is about the math. we've heard that before. >> dana: always the math in terms of the future for the senate. you are going to -- i know you aren't the chairman of the nrsc but try to keep the majority and grow it. we have the senator -- democratic senator from minnesota saying she won't run again and i know that's also the same case in michigan. are those two possible pickup opportunities for republicans? >> i think they are. those are open seats. minnesota is arguably slightly harder than michigan. both are states that we haven't elected a republican senator from in a long time. but i think that these are different times. people are looking for change in this country. i think even states that have traditionally been blue states present opportunities for us. if we do things right, put up a

record of accomplishment and support the president in what we're trying to get accomplished here in the house and senate, the map which typically in a mid-term election, a president's second term is generally harder. we'll do everything we can. it's the right candidates and right time and i think things could be -- i'm a scandinavian, i try to understate things but it would be great to win a couple of places we haven't won before. >> bill: let me squeeze this in. you are proposing a bill that would remove the tax credit for electric vehicles. the tax credit is $7500. instead you want to impose a $1 thousand tax on the e.v. buyer to pay for roads and bridges and the like. can that fly? is that something that elon musk will go for? >> elon can probably take the hit. but honestly, if you think about that whole issue, e.v.s don't

pay the gas tax. if you drive a gas powered vehicle in this country you pay for the repair of the roads. the highway trust fund and the highway gas tax. the tax credit for e.v. is something that was put in the so-called inflation reduction act, a massive spending bill on the part of the democrats, and frankly it was an ill-advised thing in the first place. where we're from in wyoming and south dakota in a cold weather climate with long distances e.v.s don't make sense. we're subsidizing that to the detriment and expense of everybody else in the country. so yeah, there are things that can be evened down. good to be with you. >> thank you. >> dana: welcome to new york. >> bill: have you seen this video? check this out. this is a day on the water. a kayaker has a whale of a time out of chile.

if you haven't seen it already, we are talking like a story right out of the bible. >> dana: his name was jonah, did you know that? >> with a capital j. >> dana: his name was jonah. >> bill: you will meet him and see him next. ooh la la. because a romantic hotel works for some... is that a mirror? but not others. find exactly what you're booking for. booking.com booking.yeah tempur-pedic designed the ergo-pro smart base, to help you fall asleep — more easily. it's gentle massage and relaxing sounds... help calm your mind, every night. during our presidents day sale, save up to $500 now on select adjustable mattress sets. between molly leaving and mom's osteoporosis, i thought life was gonna slow down. boy, was i wrong. if you have postmenopausal osteoporosis and are at high risk for fracture, evenity® can help you rapidly build new bone in just 12 months. evenity® is the only bone builder

that also helps slow bone loss. and it's proven to significantly reduce spine fracture risk. she said the evenity® she's taking builds new bone. builds new bone! (squeak) so...yeah...we still bike, babysit, and brunch with the ladies. evenity® can increase risk of heart attack, stroke, or death from a heart problem. tell your doctor if you have had a heart attack or stroke. do not take evenity® if you have low blood calcium or are allergic to it, as serious events have occurred with evenity®. signs include rash, hives, swelling of the face or throat, which may cause difficulty in swallowing or breathing, muscle spasms or cramps, numbness, or tingling. tell your doctor about severe jaw bone problems, as they have been reported with evenity®. report hip, groin, or thigh pain. unusual thigh bone fractures have occurred with evenity®. ask your doctor about building new bone with evenity®.

when winter season hits emergen-c supports your immune system with so much more than vitamin c. be ready to fight back with emergen-c and for on-the-go immune support try emergen-c crystals. no water needed.

>> bill: so now tiktok is back in the app store. this after the justice department assured apple and google it would not take legal action. fox business's lydia hu is on that story today. >> good morning. that's right. tiktok not only is it back in the app store it is number one on the list of the top three apps in the app store now. excitement that it returned. the popular social media app can be downloaded in the united states after it was taken off the app stores last month to comply with that tiktok ban that ban enacted to address national security concerns. president trump issued an executive order on his first day

in office pausing enforcement of the ban by 75 days. tiktok returned to anyone who already had the app on their phones but it remained off the app stores as the big tech companies apple and google potentially face steep fines and penalties if they continued to offer tiktok in stores. with this reported assurance from the trump administration to big tech they will not face any legal action for making tiktok available once again the app is now back for downloads to new users as well. google declined to comment. apple did not immediately respond. trump also had spoken about the possibility of further delaying enforcement of the ban to get more time to find the buyer, a u.s. buyer. it would address the national security concerns. he talked about possibly using the sovereign wealth fund he wants to create. other buyers being discussed as well. frank mccourt and kevin o'leary who made offers to get in on the deal. >> bill: one of my nieces will be happy with this news. she deleted it and d