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 didn't want

to buy an old phone. >> i think a lot of people are happy. >> bill: have a good weekend. >> dana: happy valentine's day great to have you. >> i called the mayor out many times for not stepping up when it comes to public safety threats. i saw the cop in him when i sat down with him. he wants to do the right thing. he is a life long cop. he wants to make new york safer. >> we need to go after the dangerous people on the street. i have someone that understand that narrative and we're fighting together to get it done. >> dana: president trump's border czar sitting down with new york city's mayor following their agreement to work together to curb illegal immigration and combat violent criminal migrants. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm dana perino. lots to talk about. >> bill: a cooking week. good morning to you. >> dana: i think they will all be like this? >> bill: you are right. i'm bill hemmer. good morning. nationwide crackdown car getting

criminal aliens seeing results in new york city. tom homan and democratic mayor adams announced plans to allow immigration agents on ryker's island, the main prison in new york. significant one at that. a notable shift for the city's sanctuary policies thus far. >> dana: the agreement comes as the d.o.j. moves to drop a corruption case against adams that was opened by the biden administration's justice department. fox team coverage. david spunt standing by in d.c. alexis mcadams with the latest in new york city. >> amazing to see this this morning on the "fox & friends" couch. we saw the border czar and the mayor of new york city. new duo teaming up to get migrant criminals off the streets in the big apple. border czar and adams say they're ready to work together. >> people want to hijack this narrative. i reached out to his team and

said we want to sit down. this has been an issue i was talking about before the election. >> mayor adams met with homan yesterday at the ice office in new york city to come up with a plan that includes this. allowing ice agents back into new york city's ryker eva's island jail for the first time since 2014 due to the sanctuary laws. the mayor will issue an executive order to let the feds come in and locate illegal migrants in the jail who police say are convicted criminals and gang members. the border czar says this is a big step in the right direction. >> getting back on ryker's island is a game changer. now we will get the bad guys before they hit the street. intelligence of how tda operates and where they operate. all the intelligence to gather we'll have access to. >> no secret the city of new york has been hit hard with the open borders for years. adams still wants the city to remain a sanctuary city despite everything that has happened as long as you are not a criminal.

something the trump administration does not support. >> i'm strictly against sanctuary city status because i think sanctuaries are for criminals and -- >> the beauty is we are allowed to disagree. but we do agree on the fundamental. >> dana: the fundamental is getting criminals off the streets of new york. adams is looking to city council to loosen sanctuary laws here to allow ice to cooperate with civil cases, too. not just criminal cases. much of the new york city council is not going to be happy about that. >> dana: thank you. >> bill: meanwhile top u.s. prosecutors who have quit their jobs. they are refusing orders from the department of justice to drop corruption charges against the new york city mayor eric adams. d.o.j. leaders firing back. justice department correspondent david spunt has a day for him today. what is happening? >> the story heated up monday with a letter from washington to new york.

the drama continues to spill out into the public eye. monday acting deputy attorney general bove wrote u.s. attorney danielle sasoon and drop the criminal charges against adams. he is facing federal public corruption charges. as of this morning the case hasn't been dismissed. fox news obtained a wednesday letter from her to attorney general pam bondi saying she wasn't comfortable with it. adams' advocacy could be called out for what it isment. exchange for dismissal of his case. he insists the criminals was keeping adams from enforcing his -- the complaint was keeping him from enforcing his duty curbing illegal immigration. no quid pro quo took place and adams is that on "fox & friends." >> the attorney, 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 -- which i was calling for since 2022, is if you drop the charges. that a crime. it took up three weeks to report in front of her a criminal action? come on, this is silly. >> she resigned. bove wrote her back. you lost sight of the oath by suggesting -- and a senate confirmed attorney general. at least two other top d.o.j. officials in washington also resigned. a judge has to agree to drop this case officially. unlikely he can stop it if both the prosecution and defense want the case thrown out, bill. >> bill: thanks, david. david spunt. we'll wait for more. >> dana: paul mauro, former nypd lawyer and fox news contributor joins us now.

a little bit more from steve doocy pressing mayor adams on past immigration stances. watch here. >> let's be clear, i'm not standing in the way. i'm collaborating against so many others. >> steve: now you are. >> go back to spring of 2022. i was saying we need to get dangerous people off our streets. >> steve: it wasn't happening. >> is that true? we do have crime in the this city. >> 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. >> dana: what did you make of all that, paul? >> it was in the details here. they are leaning hard on the fact ice will have an office in ryker's, that's progress. one problem. ryker eva's is about to disappear. they get rid of it and pushing

the jails to the -- ryker's at maybe a year half. a third in jail beds. we locked nobody up now in in town. now we go down a third. where does ice fit into this? it gets complicated. the laws that are in place were passed and signed into law. mayor is constrained by that. devil is in the details. what does it say? they cannot cooperate on detainers from ice except for a conviction. that's the key word, conviction for a violent felony, all right? so you have to go through all the way the process of getting convicted on a violent felony. let's remember something. most crimes in this town the charges are dropped. what do they drop them to? misdemeanor? that's constant in this town. off the bragg memo. i am skeptical. as far as being for immigration

enforcement going back to 2022, let's just, you know, review the bidding here. remember, when eric adams went down to his credit to washington to press the white house on the immigration issue, it wasn't for enforcement. it wasn't to tighten up the border. he wanted money. that's what the biden administration didn't want to hear. the day he was down there d.o.j. hit the door of his campaign finance person and you know the rest. >> bill: 7 billion it cost the city of new york already. i have a number of questions, so does dana. what's civil enforcement? give me an example of civil enforcement? >> relative to breaking a federal law? i don't know why he makes that distinction. they lean on that. even the new police commissioner said civilly. we drag them to civil court and sue them out of town? these are criminal statutes. it's nonsense. >> bill: here in new york and 19

other states you can't get access to the information at dmv. we try to understand why that is so important and what homan said this morning is that i understand you get a driver's license to an illegal because you want car insurance. i get how it could help a lot of people along the way. if you get pulled over, do you as a cop have the ability to run the license plate for the person you pulled over? homan suggested this morning that you do not have that authority. therefore when you approach the car, you don't know if they are an illegal or not or a felon. >> you are exactly right. you don't know who is in the car. first of all that's a complete misconception that people have you do targeted stops. you don't know who is in the car rarely. you run the plate and not sure the owner of the car. all this stuff about the cops target certain people

specifically. if that person driving a car is a venezuelan migrant who managed to get themselves to new york state driver's license they haven't been vetted. we don't know, venezuela doesn't cooperate with us. you came from venezuela, tda member, got to new york. got a driver's license. once you have the driver's license you can get all kinds of other paperwork. cop has no idea who this person is. you have no idea. this is why some of what they are doing is important because i agree with homan, the intelligence gathering is what is key. he has been harping on this. 300,000 kids supposedly missing. the ice agents are the ones who have to put that together. that's trafficking. they are coming in and getting kicked out to someplace else. if you get into the knickers of these characters and start doing debriefing. pull the phones, etc. get all that over to the analysts we can hopefully find these kids and that would be remit number one. >> dana: so much. we missed having you. thanks for coming on today.

>> bill: there is a new movement taking shape called make america healthy again. have you heard of it? robert f. kennedy, jr. trying to put that agenda in place. let's get healthy, griff, good morning. >> maha movement has begun. as the new hhs secretary says the future of public health is about to change forever. some of what kennedy had to say to laura ingraham last night. >> we need somebody different who can come in and say i'm going to be a disruptor. i won't let the food industry and the pharmaceutical industry run health policy anymore. we are going to turn health policy over to people who are actually concerned with public health. >> secretary kennedy plans to overhaul health agencies with a focus on radical transparency working in tandem with a maha commission created by president trump to reform food policy that

he believes is the root of chronic illnesses. expand healthcare and treatment options and demanding more accountability from the pharmaceutical industry who he believes put profits over healthcare. critics persist. he has been called a quake, villain, anti-vacers that he denies telling laura no one will have their vaccines taken away. >> if people are happy with their vaccines they ought to be able to get them. what we will do is give people good science. we don't have good safety studies on almost any of the vaccines. vaccines are one medical product exempt from safety studies. >> the vaccine worry is what senator mitch mcconnell cited as the reason for being the only republican to vote against his confirmation. >> bill: griff jenkins in d.c. thank you, sir. >> as president trump has made clear, he believes our european friends must play a bigger role

in the future of this continue interest in. >> dana: vice president vance taking the world stage today at the munich security conference. the v.p. standing firm on president trump's demands nato step up its defense spending. >> bill: hamas releasing the names of the hostages expected to be freed tomorrow including one american. how this fragile cease-fire is set to play out by the hour. >> dana: musk spending cut spree roiling the democrats. a member of their own party warning the party's antics are falling flat. >> unelected felon musk. >> we should know that people, the rest of the departments and all the people that they support are getting screwed.

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>> dana: this just in. this is the uss harry truman. that is a big aircraft carrier. it collided with a merchant ship in the mediterranean sea off the coast of egypt. that is significant damage there. we'll keep an eye on it and bring you more when we get it as to what happened there. >> we're not going to fight -- we're not just going to fight it but fight it with everything we've got. >> don't believe the dog whistle. don't believe the fraud, waste and abuse and inefficiency. they are delay until dead. >> let's make sure unelected felon musk, you can't spell felon without elon. the criminality they think they will get away with, they won't get away with. >> that's the line.

democrats fuming over musk and doge doubling down. but the stunts aren't stopping the efforts to try to slash government waste and cut back on t red tape. what are you hearing, aishah? >> at least one democrat now, bill, that raising the red flag for his party and saying hang on one second. you will remember it is dean phillips, former congressman who was really the canary in the coal mine during the presidential primary with president biden's age. no one listened to him and we saw what happened. now he is saying guys, don't fight elon musk. this is a very popular idea to cut waste amongst americans and here is his brutal take this week about what his party is doing. watch. >> i think we're missing the boat as democrats. sometimes it is better to join them and actually play a role in how the strategy works rather than so pathetically, frankly, trying to combat something that

clearly is a steam roller and democrats are being stem rolled. democrats may be too far gone. chris murphy calling for full scale opposition to musk. holding press conferences, rallies and bringing up doge in non-nation hearings. non-stop. republicans are having the opposite problem. they can't keep up with doge. they are preparing to codify doge's impact to make those cuts permanent by law. >> i think the public needs to know that we will have to put those things into the law or just the next president comes along executive order this and that. they do away with all the hard work. >> so, bill, doge is going to keep on working and democrats apparently keep on complaining about it. >> bill: dodge away i guess. follow that for us, thank you. >> dana: let's bring in fox news

contributor and host of getting hammered mary kathryn hamm and another democrat panel member. ro khanna has ideas and thoughts and he wrote this in "the new york times." democrats have a future, here it is. we have to acknowledge that we spectacularly failed to recognize in the last election that the status quo is broken and americans are feeling a righteous anger about the real damage the governing class has done to their lives over the past few decades. he goes on from there. we talked a couple of weeks ago. the democrats haven't found their footing yet. >> it's a struggle to watch to be honest. i'm a democrat and i believe in government. if i was to advise my fellow democrats now i would say you aren't the heroes of your own story or the champions. turn the mic over to people being impacted. look at farmers who are getting screwed out of the contracts they were being owed when they built solar installations on their farms or meals on wheels

administrators or park rangers the grand canyon. these are the people feeling the pain now. use your platforms to elevate them. show working class people being hurt by government actions. >> dana: interesting in terms of communications, right? show, don't just tell or in their case mary kathryn hamm, sing in front of the capitol and make a fool of yourself. the gallup poll showed more democrats favor party moderation than they have in the past. right now 45% are looking for the party to get a little more moderate. do you think that will help? >> yeah, i think it would. i think my friend are oracles in the party to say obvious things to the party and the party should listen. the federal workers gathering in washington on a tuesday taking the day off to protest bosses and saying they should be thrown in jail is not the most

sympathetic group. maybe other groups are a more interesting story to tell. what people are learning as they go through the process is federal workers, and federal bureaucracies have insane protections that most normal workers and workplaces do not have. the way they do business is very bad. irresponsible and thought this was a while. they don't mind it being exposed. the federal government -- swing voters in arizona say we like him cleaning house and don't mind musk in charge of it. part of the u.s. digital service under an actual obama era agency that does have authorities and powers to do these type of things. >> dana: barack obama had this to say back in 2011 on government cost cutting. >> one of the commitments that i made to the american people was that we would do a better job here in washington in rooting out wasteful spending. we haven't seen as much action

out of congress as we would like. that's why we launched on our own initiative the campaign to cut waste. >> dana: what do you make of that? >> i agree. i guess i'm alone among many democrats in that i like an audit of the pentagon. i like an audit of the fed and across a lot of different spent of the federal government. i have get nervous and concerned however when you say delete the agency. we should have a conversation, what do you like about it or not like about it? when you have a wealthy person who says an agency that goes after big banks. let's kill the whole things off while conceding it does nice things. not the way government is supposed to work. you want government standing and fighting against the concentrations of power and why we have a consumer financial protection bureau. i get concerned about the approach. do the audit. cut line items across the government. i'm sure we can find a lot of agreement on it.

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could be my last. president trump, you are the reason i am home alive. >> bill: wow. amazing story. keith siegel american talking about his ordeal in the tunnels of hamas thanking president trump in the video. three more will be released tomorrow. among them is another american far left of your screen, two months after his abduction his wife gave birth to a daughter, who he will meet, we pray, on saturday. stand by. all right. dana. 10:3two. >> dana: trump administration emphasizing u.s. energy security as it would, to renegotiate deals with other countries. edward lawrence is at the white house with this. hi. >> and i just actually got back from kiev, ukraine yesterday afternoon. i'm told -- two sources telling me president zelenskyy's administration will sign an economic partnership related to energy with the biden

administration today that will happen. ukrainians have been looking over this deal over the past couple days since wednesday when treasury secretary bessent went to ukraine to present this deal to the ukrainian president there. ukrainians want more money and weapons, as well as more security guarantees with an economic plan. i wanted to know fresh out of the meeting between the treasury secretary and ukrainian president if the agreement could start something more. listen. >> could this economic deal be the foundation for a larger peace deal? >> this is part of the foundation for a larger peace deal that president trump has in mind. he looks forward to moving very quickly to try to resolve this conflict. >> energy is at the heart of this. any economic deal the u.s. would get a percentage of profits.

ukraine get the rest of the profits from the partnership. mining for rare earth minerals. energy including nation rail gas and oil. not a loan but a joint venture so ukraine and the u.s. both make money. today in munich the vice president was asked about the signing. listen. >> rare earth deal with ukraine today, sir? >> we'll see. >> president trump sees energy as the core of his policies both here at home to lowering prices and foreign policy to help end conflicts as well as increase american security around the globe. back to you. >> dana: edward lawrence, good to have you back, thanks. >> bill: as we mentioned later today now a judge will hear a lawsuit from 19 states suing to stop doge from getting access to the treasury and systems there. shannon bream, anchor of "fox news sunday" with us now. happy friday.

roll the sound bite. number one, trump says i will follow the law. watch. >> if a judge does block one of your policies, part of your agenda, will you abide by that law? >> president trump: i always abide by the courts and then i have to appeal it. what he has done is slowed down the momentum and it gives crooked people more time to cover up the books. the answer is i always abide by the courts, always abide by them and we'll appeal. but appeals take a long time. >> bill: i don't know if this is the right way to interpret all this but it seems like every challenge that is going before a judge or shopping for a favorable court whether you are coming from the right or the left, all of these decisions will be decided by the u.s. supreme court, am i right about that? or maybe not all? what do you think? >> i think ultimately many of them will. as you guys know the supreme court doesn't have to take any case. it is within their purview you have to get the votes together. a number of the justices

thinking it is a worthy case they need to hear. with dozens of lawsuits already filed. some have some common overlap when it comes to subject matter. the court will never be able to hear all of these. three, four, five big issues that deal with executive power are likely to bubble up there very quickly. >> dana: one of the things that could help is tort reform if you think about consumers and business and economic growth. they aren't quite there yet but a bunch of legal challenges facing trump and doge. excuse me. the a.g. lawsuit against doge and trump and elon musk says president has delegated unchecked authority to mr. musk without proper legal authorization from congress. without meaningful supervision of his activities. as a result he is transforming position responsible managing government websites into a designated agent of chaos without limitation and in violation of the separation of powers. i don't know, that seems like a loser to me, shannon.

i'm not a lawyer. i will turn it to you. >> what the trump legal team says he is the executive and has sole authority over the executive branch including federal agencies. their argument is if he wants to give essentially power to someone to go inside these federal agencies to do the work he asked them to do, to root out fraud and abuse, he should be able to do that as the leader of the executive branch. a.g.s, a couple of lawsuits one in federal court heard this afternoon in new york. one in federal court here in d.c. they again say yes, the appointments clause, all these technicalities with how an agency is created or who is given power that president trump has blown through those and has to be a role for congress in these things. we'll see what the federal judges say. it may end up with nine justices. >> bill: i think your point, though, we need to keep that in mind. the court decides which cases they take. they don't take, the ruling

stands with the lawyer courts. john barrasso from the republican side and tim cain from the democrat side. >> tons of foreign policy, ukraine, russia, israel, iran, china. the budget battles and the fact we're running out of money march 14th. plenty to dig through on sunday. >> dana: march 14th is a month from today. happy valentine's day to you. >> to you to, guys, have a great day and a great weekend. >> dana: bye. >> president trump: 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. >> dana: president trump working the phone pushing for peace between russia and ukraine. can he bring three years of bloodshed to an end? a new look for the department of defense. pentagon chief pete hegseth is from behind the desk focusing on strength and mission-first mindset. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks!

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>> bill: there is a lot of news out of europe. defense secretary pete hegseth on the road there. he has made comments to what a future ukraine could look like and what a u.s. role could or could not be after a peace deal came together and running the pentagon with a different look. working out with u.s. troops in the snow. a former member of the delta force is with me now. what do you make of hegseth's start here as he tries to lead the pentagon? >> it's fantastic. truthfully i believe he will be remembered as one of the greatest of our generation because of things like this. other leaders should pay

attention to this style of leadership. we need disrupters at the highest level of government. when front line troops respect you, they will fight for you. it will resonate up. this isn't about a fitness routine but being in the grind with soldiers and using it as an opportunity to understand the real battlefield environment and truth on the ground from men and women experiencing it firsthand. restoring strength to our military is doing the actual hard work to strengthen that military. the numbers don't lie. since hegseth became the secretary of defense the recruitment is through the roof. he has a difficult job recognizing generals at the highest level may not have all the answers to the problems. my experience frankly with generals and admirals with the exception of a few they are used to fighting the last war. used to preparing for conflicts we no longer need to fight instead of rapid innovation, building a military and defense

industrial base to prepare for the next war. i hope at some point these guys are rock stars. i love what hegseth is doing trying to listen to the front line troops telling them what the needs are and seeing it firsthand. >> bill: it is certainly different. right now as we're speaking zelenskyy is speaking as well. he said a number of things. he will meet with only one russian and that is putin when the conditions are right. he says trump is the only one to get this done in terms of a deal for peace. and he said trump gave me his personal cell phone number. do you see a 6 hundred mile line that separates russia and ukraine, a new border that is drawn that can be policeed effectively and maintain the peace for decades to come?

>> this is such a difficult problem that strategically we need to be really smart what we do. the biggest fear over there if there is a peace deal and russia takes land they l come back years later. they've done that before. i head back to ukraine next week and i spent a lot of time there on the ground. we have to have a bit of common sense and understand that putin could really level that country if he wanted to. russia just last night committed nuclear terrorism. they struck the nuclear facility in chernobyl with a drone. putin hasn't given ukraine everything they have. ukrainians are killing russians 10-one. putin may have lost a million soldiers but he doesn't care. he will lose more to prove a point. he is clever regarding using north korean soldiers, prisoners. these are not russian elites and their children fighting these wars.

people the russian population could care less about. i mean their primary tactic on the ground is send waves and waves of soldiers rushing the front lines in hopes of gaining a few more feet of territory. a war meat grinder out there and the russians are going forward into these meat grinders because death waits for them in front and wait behind them if they retreat. the only way is forward. now it's working. my advice to the when dealing with putin vladimir putin is an intelligence officer. understand before anything. it's how he grew up. play the game but trust nothing he says. zelenskyy needs to understand this is not an endless war chest of money from the americans. we have ukraine fatigue. we want it to end and hopefully it ends soon. >> bill: travel well. hope you have a good trip. talk to you when you get back. >> dana: slick roads and white-out conditions leading to

dozens of crashes on a busy highway. check that out there. plus secretary robert f. kennedy, jr. thanking president trump for giving him to chance to improve the future of public health. we'll talk about it next.

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>> harris: the department of government efficiency machine roles out despite democrat his torah and legal roadblocks. liberal media and democrats claiming elon musk had to evidence when he pointed to fraudulent federal spending. surprise, there are receipts from the federal government itself. president trump has his man to make america healthy again. new health and human services secretary rfk, jr. his take on how he plans to do what is necessary. dr. marc siegel, senator jim justice on doge, you don't want to miss him. "the faulkner focus" top of the hour.

>> bill: thank you, harris, dozens of cars and trucks colliding in a white out in a major highway in oregon. backed up traffic 30 miles east of portland. have a severe winter storm reducing visibility to near zero. roads coated in snow and ice and the great midwest is going to freeze real soon. >> dana: 30 miles? >> yes. 30 miles outside of portland. >> dana: wow. >> bill: that was on the west coast. the midwest will get it next. then i think we're in line for that. stand by. >> dana: bundle up. and buckle up. >> president trump has promised to be the president for all americans and he has said to me he understand there is no such thing as republican or democratic children. all of our children need to be protected. whether you are in a blue or red state i will do everything i can to work with you whether you're democrat or republican, to

restore child's health in this country. >> dana: he is the new secretary of health and human services on a mission to make america healthy again. so are many moms across the country. the founder and ceo of daily nore. reading about you today i can tell that one, you also have children's best interests in mind. what do you hope is the first thing he is able to do to try to get some results that you are looking for? >> i think it's so important to jump in here and realize that the issues that we're facing and talking about things like chronic disease epidemic, pre-diabetic children. all these different issues are uniquely american problems. we aren't seeing the rates of autism in children in other countries like in the u.s. what we're hoping he does is pretty simple. we are hoping he promotes the highest standard of science and research and has transparency in that and we get to the root causes of these illnesses. the first 100 days we'll learn a

lot. it is exact will i what we've been promised all along and why moms who by the way historically voted democrat but joined this maha movement because of the president trump's promise to fulfill this mandate that rfk will lead. >> dana: interesting because hhs is one place but the u.s. department of agriculture is where a lot of this takes place. he was on with laura ingraham last night. a couple things he mentions happen over there and have a willing partner in brooke rollins. check it out here. >> the chronic disease epidemics and alcoholism and drug addiction and suicide we need to address all of those things at the same time. we do need a break. we need somebody different to come in and say i'll be a disruptor. i won't let the food industry and pharmaceutical industry run health policy anymore. >> dana: all right. there was that. this is also his list of goals

for food, nutrition and diet. i think all of us are trying to figure out a way to help make our own families healthy. one of them is banning artificial food dyes and eliminating the use of pesticides in consumption of plant based seed oils. he could run up against powerful lobbyists. how do you expect he will handle it? >> they will handle it the same way they handle it in every department whether doge or any other departments we're seeing handle it with transparency. it says in this commission draft evidence what it says is that we have to root out the cronyism. there is a reason why we're at the place we're at. there definitely is a lot of questioning that needs to be done around big food and big pharma. so i think he will handle it head on. the only way to handle this and just continuing to than incredibly transparent with the american people and trust there are good people who will make good decisions and yes, there will be a shift of power and it is really important to remember

that with this healthcare system particularly it is the largest and fastest growing industry in the country. this is not an easy problem. this is a very nuanced problem. and one that will take a lot of ambition. it is important and trump has him here for a reason. he doesn't need this position. he wants this position. he won't be swayed by outside opinions and i think he will do a good an honest job for all of us. >> dana: appreciate you. thank you. >> bill: before we go, have i got something for you, my lady. >> dana: what is it? >> off the coast of chile a humpback whale swallows a kayaker. >> dana: wow. >> bill: the whale then lets the kayaker free. kayaker thought he was a goner. his dad had all that captured. >> dana: can you imagine his dad? oh my gosh, i can't. >> bill: or him. >> dana: have a great weekend. here is harris