city. at the same time, philadelphia has a fantastic ♪ gravy train for a lot of these folks biscuits wheels and about to run off the dadgum tracks. >> do any of these reporters make a case 2.5 mill for fat lens reduction. >> cow you mustard moo moo. >> bret: one week. one week. monday on "special report," the doge team heads to the pentagon. be sure to watch "fox news sunday" shannon bream. her guest will be national security adviser mike waltz. john barrasso and democratic virginia senator tim kaine, also sunday don't miss the daytona 500 on fox sports. daytona international speedway with the threat of rain. they have moved up the start time to 1:30 p.m. eastern time. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight fair, balanced and unafraid. here's laura. >> laura: good evening, everyone. i'm laura ingraham.

this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. happy valentine's day and thank you for joining us. all right. speaking in munich today. j.d. vance gave our european allies a much needed wake-up call it was 180-degree departure from biden's weak and wasteful we will give you anything you want approach to europe. calling out the eu increasing hostility to free speech. >> if you are running in fear of your own voters. there is nothing nor for that matter is there anything can you do for the american people who elected me and elected president trump. you need democratic man diets accomplish anything of value in the coming years there is so much of value that can be accomplished with the kind of democratic mandate that i think will come from being more responsive to the voices of your

citizens he. >> donald trump is doing in the united states. europe peep leaders need to do the same thing. they wanted him to speak about russia and china not so much about china and yourself own approach to these issues. i think my favorite part of the speech is when the cameras panned to the audience. face of the elites that were use to the getting their way and taking us all for fools. >> may disagree with your views or fight defend your right to offer it in the public square agree or disagree you cannot win a democratic mandate bison soaring your opponents or putting them in jail. i believe dismissing people. dismissing their concerns or worse yet, shutting down media, shutting down elections, or shutting people out of the political process protects

nothing. >> laura: like what do you mean the voice of the people matter? we are used to running the show. this was a doily pro-american speech. because we don't apologize for who we are or what we believe. president obama kind of did that during his first european tour but that's not us. >> and then in the interest of comedies, my friend, but also in the interest of truth. >> i will admit that sometimes the loudest voices for censorship have come not from within europe but from within my own countries where the prior administration threatened and bullied social media companies to censor so-called misinformation. misinformation, like, for example, the idea that coronavirus had likely leaped from a laboratory in china, our own government encouraged private companies to silence people who dared to utter what turned out to be an obvious truth. any fellow citizens suspected guilty of thought crime.

and britain and across europe free speech, i fear is in retreat. >> laura: he is right about that. now, one of the most powerful parts of vance's address today were his comments on the self-harm that europe has done to itself to satisfy the myth mythical global order. i believe there is nothing more urgent than mass migration. no voter on this continent went to the ballot box to open the flood gates to millions of unvetted immigrants. but you know what they did vote for. england. they disagree they voted for it. and more and more all over europe. they are voting for political leaders who prom missed to put out of control migration. >> what is he getting at there is that europe, and their elites there, their old cabals, tried everything they could, everything in their power to malign it's populist movements.

populist leaders, but vance perfectly assessed where this will lead. >> but what german democracy, what no democracy, american, german or european will survive, is telling millions of voters that their thoughts and concerns, their aspirations, their pleas for relief are invalid or unworthy of even being considered. >> laura: and this is how the maga folks felt for years. even before they were called maga, before there was a donald trump on the political scene. they felt ignored, they felt dismissed. looked down upon. eventually, the people will have their say. and today j.d. vance did america proud in having the brains and frankly the guts to tell the truth to those who presided over europe's steady decline. joining us now glenn greenwald pulitzer prize winning independent journalist. glenn, what i love are reading the comments from those back in the united states, politico

today basically saying that j.d. vance attacked his -- our european allies, attacked them by focusing on the cultural issues like free speech, instead of focusing on how we need to, i guess, i don't know, spend billions of dollars more in continuing the killing fields in ukraine. >> if you go back and look at when the real hostility toward donald trump really emerged from establishment media and establishment politics, it was when he began questioning the foundational premises, orthodoxies, almost the religious foreign policy particularly when it comes to our relationship to europe. why is it that we continue to pay for europe's defense when the original purpose of nato, which was protecting against the soviet union obviously doesn't exist anymore, because there is no communist soviet union, wanting to invade western europe. and so so many of these premises that have been off limits from debate so long and created so

much destruction. these are the things that have got us into the wars, including regime change in libya, at nato want demand, into syria, this destructive regime change there all throughout the world these wars and massive expenditure of military spending that comes at the expense of the american people, all of it is now being questioned because the foundational ideas and premises of it are completely false. the idea that the united states and the eu worked together to promote democracy when so much of what the eu does is antidemocratic from canceling outcome or censoring their political speech was amazing to hear j.d. vance go and tell them that in such blunt and unapologetic ways. >> glenn, i'm sorry, i kept going back on the computer on my feed to look at the faces, the faces always tell the story. they loved it when obama went over and said we are dismissive and derisive and we're arrogant. they loved that they loved obama, obviously for a lot of reasons. he was a powerful politician.

but, they loved the idea of america kind of being on her knees. but, in this case, j.d. vance had just a different approach. let's watch more the threat that i worry vis-a-vis europe. not russia or china or external actor. what i worry about is the threat from within. the retreat of europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the united states of america. >> laura: your reaction to that because the global security conference that was taking place were urgently hoping that he, you know, corrected the record on what hegseth had said earlier about russia and ukraine and that it was going to be more of, you know, doubling down on failure and the war in ukraine. and like, wait a second, why are you talking about free speech. >> what he is saying there so

true. if you wake up as an american citizen, citizen of germany or france or ubleg, you are not really worried about russia. you are not worried about china. these are the things they learned. the democrats in the media tried for years to say russia, you are scared of russia. you can't vote for trump. that isn't what people wake up and think about. they wake up and think about their economic security that's threatened by a lot of these policies that their own governments have implemented and about their freedoms to the say the things that they always thought they had the right to say. so when you have europe adopts a posture of authoritarianism and oppression afraid of the own people and afraid of the outcome of free elections and we are supposed to base our foreign policy and security on a partnership with them. when we have our own forces insides the united states that have been doing the same thing that kind of censorship that attempt to manipulate elections. these are the real threats the most proximate and immediate threats. again, it's amazing to h hear a senior american leader saying it's not china and russia threatening our way of life at

least not immediately. it's people within our own countries the one who have governed these countries in a way that have turned so many people off. >> laura: if they had been successful, there wouldn't be the rise of a populist movement, right? if the elites had done a better job, there wouldn't have been a donald trump. they only have themselves to blame here. but germans, minister of defense, glenn, did come out to respond to vice president vance's speech. check it out. >> he spoke of the annual labor relation of democracy and if i understood him correctly. he compared conditions in parts of europe with those in authoritarian regimes that is why i strongly oppose the impression that vice president vance has created that minorities are being suppressed or silenced in our democracy. >> laura: glenn, they took great umbrage to what he said and before that, this idea that, you know, ukraine was not going to become a member of nato. they were upset about that only

fact we have populist movements in the europe and the united states and aroundth world is because these institutions have failed. they have lost control of how people perceive them. they have no more faith or trust in the people that they want to rule over. and the amazing thing, laura, is that you never hear them look in the mirror and ask why that is? what is it that they did that caused it? the only thing they want to do is blame oh it's russia deceiving our people. too much dissent and hate speech and misinformation tricking people into not liking us j.d. vance to say you know what? a lot of this is your fault. that makes them so angry and alarmed. that is the truth and they don't want anyone pointing that out. >> laura: glenn, as he said, friends don't let friends continue to traffic in lies and half truths and censorship. if you are friends, you have to give your friends sometimes friendly advice and constructive criticism. glenn, great to have you on. we don't have you on enough. thank you so much.

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imro are grow. >> laura: this is a serious question on a friday night. are there any sane democrats left in washington do any of them care about the billions being stolen from the u.s. taxpayers, stolen through waste, stolen through negligence, fraud, abuse? now presumably their constituents, i don't care what party registration they have are not happy that their hard earned money is being flushed down the toilet. today doge announced that it was saving americans $115 million african selling 167 contracts, including a 2.3 million contract for, quote: equity assessments of existing program policies at hhs. now, over at the department of education, there are more equity scams robbing the taxpayers of money. and they are being zeroed out with doge noting that the department of education terminated grants to the four equity assistance centers there,

totaling 33 million. this is my favorite and included a workshop titled "identifying and disrupting your whiteness" by, quote, addressing power and privilege towards ante racist spaces. now, remember, biden's team, they love the word equity. they could make it mean anything they wanted, right? and they were obsessed with race, and antiracism fraud centers, basically making them rich. and those people cashed in huge post george floyd. of course, these efforts did nothing to help black america, but it did make the hucksters rich and briefly famous. now, after trump won, after he improved his standing among black men, latino, young people, do democrats really think defending this stuff is really a path to victory for them? what's their evidence for thinking that? their justification for believing that? the management of your money

already identified by doge is staggeringly bad it's indefensible. we learned a little bit more a few hours ago. we will get to it. trump's new epa administrator has only been on the job for less than three weeks. he has already found waste in the billions. >> roughly 20 billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution by the biden epa. this p pot of $20 billion was awarded to just eight entities. the days of irresponsibly shoveling boat loads of cash to far left activist groups in the name of environmental justice and climate equity are over. >> laura: again, equity. every time you hear that, watch your wallet. now, when we're -- 36 trillion in debt; is that right now? when we spend more than a trillion dollars a year just on our interest payments on that debt, how do democrats justify

any of this? to answer, they don't even really try, but what they do do is attack the messenger. >> not just going to fight. this we're going to fight this with everything we got! >> let's make sure that unelected felon musk because you can't spell felon without elon understands that the criminality that they think they're getting away with will not get away with. >> get your muskie hands off of our money, moo moo moo. >> laura: still trying to understand the moo moo musk. still trying to get that. so how is that -- how is that possibly the future for the democrat party? and the entire party been captured by left wing reactionaries like we just heard? i would like to ask the federal reserve chairman that question after he was confronted by them this week. >> when musk comes knocking at the feds' door are you going to

let him in? >> i don't have anything for you on that. >> would you like to tell us today that you won't let doge into the federal reserve, have access to the systems and the data? >> so we don't -- i don't have any -- we have had no contact and i don't really have -- i have nothing for you to report today on that. >> well you know what happened to treasury. and you know what happened over at the cnpb and the people ofs this country are being violated because all of our privacy is being taken up by elon musk and trump and we don't know what all they have on us. >> laura: okay. he is thinking inflation blamed on me. and a root canal rather than sitting across from that woman, anything. again, why don't the democrats care about the waste? they keep asking us. they don't have a good answer. >> could there be the argument that might be missing the will

of the voters who support doge and might be too hung up on the process? >> the american people are alarmed about the possibility that elon musk and his far right extreme minions have access to their personal and financial information. >> laura: okay, that's lame, lame, lame. democrats have willful blindness here. has hakeem jeffries not seen trump's approval numbers? now, it's not like democrats though have never cared about reining in big spending, cost of furniture in his wife's hospital room. >> did you see the this morning? see that fellow pictured by the bed? >> yes, sir. >> you see that furniture they bought from jordan marsh? why the heck did they let the reporters in there for. throw $5,000 away on this. let's cut them another billion dollars. you just sank the air force

budget. you're crazy up there. they are crazy. that silly picture next to the bed? >> laura: he was worried about $5,000. and bill clinton cared so much about spending that he worked with republicans to balance the budget. >> the plan i offer you seeks to earn the trust of the american people by paying for these plans first with cuts in government waste and efficiency. second, with cuts not gimmicks and government spending and by fairness or a change in the way additional burdens are born. >> laura: al gore touted a report that showed how to cut government. >> this report tells us how to cut waste, cut red tape, streamline the bureaucracy, change procurement rules, change the personnel rules and create a government that works better and costs less. >> laura: sounds like doge. sounds like trump. sounds like musk. that wasn't so long ago. what on earth happened to the

democrats? dean phillips has some advice for them. >> sometimes it's better to join them and actually play a role in how the strategy works rather than sow pathetically try to combat something that is a steam roller and democrats are being steam rolled. >> steam rolled indeed. because protests don't create jobs or prosperity at some point they all look like bad street theater. bank into agencies, day after day to make what point? because doge is inside working hard, a lot harder than members of congress by the way, a lot more hours. to find waste. that's money that could be in the taxpayers' pockets or used to pay off the debt. now, democrats end up looking like the defenders of waste. even the guy who recommended the protest strategy now think it's backfired. >> i was wrong because it looked more like a senior's home and jell-o night. it wasn't optically a good

moment for us. >> not a good moment. look, in the end, will voters identify more with what musk and his crew are trying to do? try to bring efficiency to the government? or will voters identify with the democrats who don't care that the government is literally bankrupting us. bankrupting us for diversity, equity and inclusion. bankrupting us for climate change and, of course, for illegal aliens. but i think our democrat friends might want to consider asking themselves what will the average american appreciate more? the cost savings and the mission of trump and musk or whatever this viper is spewing? >> it's important that attorneys general representing our respective states stand up and enforce the rule of law because elon musk, individuals at the treasury, and the president of

these united states is not above the law. >> laura: isn't that like ripped from what she said five years ago? same thing. but, trump and musk want you to be free and prosperous. democrats prefer that you feel like victims all the time. they want you in that victim state mentality. relegated to posting all day on tiktok. >> don't let fascists it out. ♪ i'm going to let it shine ♪ don't let fascists it out ♪ i'm going to let it shine >> laura: you should have heard the crescendo at the end. joining me matt lowery and breitbart pollster. alex, we found out late today doge recovered 1.9 billion in hug money that was somehow this is their word misplaced under

biden. if they are capable of losing almost $2 billion and this is just, you know, the first three weeks or so? what comes next? >> oh, this is never going to stop, laura. it's so glorious. i got to talk to senator ernst who runs the doge caucus in the senate who caucus this week. 2 trillion going to get cut easy. already at a quarter of a trillion now. they have been at this three weeks and this is going to be a year and a half long project. they got the democrats completely cornered to your point here. check mate. in a position where they are defending every single insane expenditure that they have h doing stuff all these people who we found out working at home from their bathtubs and posting on instagram about it federal government undermining trump's agenda and defending that we need to keep supporting those people? one of the best soundbites i ever saw in my life was when musk was in the oval office with trump. and one of the reporters tried to dunk on musk and say you lied and said we were paying for condoms in gaza.

it was really condoms in mozambique. first of all i'm going to get stuff wrong and can you correct it. totally mature, adult response. then he said come to think of it and you see the machinations of the brain, condoms of mows beak why are we paying for those? now the democrats are all 100 percent unilaterally on the sides of condoms mows beam people. thank god we have this moment. >> laura: matt, i'm trying to figure out what the democrats' plan is here. we know they are doing the lawfare that's a separate craft. >> i event tree -- i think they are event actually going to get goose egged on a lot of these decisions that might slow down trump for sure. did you, again, what are they offering people, except a lot of bad chants, a lot of t thee tree at tricks and blaming the messenger with musk? i mean, we have a couple polls out that show that people are

pretty, you know, pretty fine with what musk is doing they don't have a problem with that and i don't know if you have any polling on that, too matt, but people seem like they are pretty glad, you know, 42% plurality, favorable opinion of doge that's what the media coverage. matt? >> well, laura, we did a poll with entire vantage our company and robert trafalgar this week it. showed that when you ask the approval rating for what musk is doing and his approval rating, not should he have so much power in the white house, which is how the other pollsters ask it, you find that musk is up by 5 points overall. he is up almost at 80% approval among republicans, whereas last week, you gov and 538 tried to say that actually musk was almost upside down with republicans. we have two alternative worltsd stuck in own world of the old legacy media the pollsters can never get it right when it comes to trump. and then the rest of the country

slowly coming to great publications like breitbart, like i look at every day now to know what is really going on. pollsters like ourselves get the presidential elections right and can find the trump voters and i think slowly but surely they are running out of people don't know about something they don't know to vote against it. now we are to the point x putting information out. trump being as active as he is. many more publications like breitbart coming along, with the job everyone is doing and the numbers proving that they are right, these guys are beginning to look like fools, the democrats are and they truly don't realize it because they are still in that little echo chamber of talking about, you know, isn't this terrible in the privatization? >> it's a simple message. they want to spend your money and waste your money we're trying to save your money. i think the 2026 election, if

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>> this is a fox news update. i'm kevin corke in washington. a preliminary ntsb report suggest the black hawk helicopter crew in last month's deadly mid-air collision may not have heard a crucial instruction to pass behind the american airlines plane. the preliminary analysis also suggests the black hawk's altitude meter may have been inaccurate. the january 29th crash in washington, d.c. killed all 67 people aboard the two aircraft's. at least two women shot near the eagles super bowl parade

celebration. phillie police say they are both in stable condition. you may recall last year a shooting at the chiefs' parade killed 1. the pope is being treated for respiratory tract infection. in good spirits. all of pope francis' events have been canceled through monday. hope he gets better, soon. i'm kevin corke. now back to the ingraham angle. >> laura: call him donald the dealmaker in the three weeks since president trump took office, he has already secured the release of 11 americans held hostage and among them were six in venezuela and a teacher jailed in russia. >> i feel like the luckiest man on earth right now. president trump is a hero. these men that came from the diplomatic service are heroes. >> laura: joining us now is one of the key, key people who have been deeply involved in these

releases, steve witkoff, special envoy to the middle east very busy on a number of fronts. steve, we haven't gotten into the hamas hostages. if you could, for the people watching tonight, take us inside these negotiations why was trump able to do so quickly what other administrations, you know, took a while or never got accomplished? >> peace through strength, laura. as you know. it means something out there. and everybody understands it. we had to reach out and we understood that it was possible that marc fogel, we could get him home. and the president, we pursued it. he instructed us to pursue it. and we determined that maybe there was -- there was a good opportunity. and he sent me on an airplane to go to russia and hopefully figure it out on his behalf and

thank god we had a good result. >> laura: was there a lot of set up, groundwork laid before your trip to russia, presumably you didn't just show up and like i want to talk to someone. you had to have conversations before and how did that go? >> >> it was quite a bit, yeah. we had a really good back channel. and owe turned out to be credible and enormously helpful. that led to a lot of trust building between the trump administration president putin, and maybe that will even pay some large dividends in the future as they begin to discuss other things. >> obviously you are talking about ukraine and i think goodwill, putin wanted to establish some goodwill with this administration for sure. steve, the reports tonight are that a u.s. citizen has been detained in russia for attempting to smuggle a significant amount of drugs into the country?

i don't even know how anyone would be that stupid, given what's happened in russia on the drug front. but, can you tell us anything about this tonight? >> i really don't know much about it. i was just informed about it. but, i have no facts. i'm not sure exactly what happened i think after the marc fogel release there is a lot of positivity in the relationship between the putin administration and the trump administration. and i believe and i would like to think that it's going to lead to a lot of positive good things. things that probably would have headed off the ukrainian conflict if the president was the president at the time. and i think you'll see -- i think you will see a course direction. you know him as well, almost as well as i do, president trump. he's a deal guy. and he gets how to do it.

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♪ >> laura: if you want to know how biden's pentagon tried to market a career in the military, remember this. >> although i had a fairly typical childhood, took ballet, played violin, i also marched for equality. i like to think i have been defending freedom from an early age. >> laura: shocking that military recruiting numbers dropped during biden's time in office. but, under trump, woke and weak are out without strength are in.

♪ >> harder people are harder to kill. >> joining me now the man you just saw in that very cool video, scott del master fitness trainer scott, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> why was it important for you to get that message out at this point in time? >> so, we created this video to army's holistic health and fitness program. h 2 f. what that program is doing to preparing our soldiers for lethality in combat and the different pillars, physical fitness, mental, emotional, spiritual and also helping them improve their sleep. >> laura: explain the sleep aspect of this. i need s personnel part of this

program. we are going to be help to help soldiers war fighters. tell us about the mood, you have a new commander-in-chief. you have a new commander-in-chief, you have a new defense secretary, who was out there working with the troops over in europe. what did it feel like. did it feel different? >> there is definitely a culture of fitness that is coming to the military. it's something that has been in the works for a while. that is needed to get back on track. and that's something we are working towards. >> in a sense of, you know, not being kind of not embarrassed by military tradition. there is a lot of friends of mine in the military, actually couple that just got out of

basic, and they are like the mood in the military -- he is in the marines, the mood in the military is awesome. like people are very positive and feel very supported. because it's not about woke. it's about work. and everybody treated the same but the standards are the same which i think a lot of people have been frustrated by. >> correct. the standards are the same and this h 2 f program is something that has been around for six years now. it's rolling out different units at different times. now here at fort carson, first combat brigade, fourth infantry division, we are finally getting to see it, and that's something that myself and personally working on to make sure that these soldiers are where they need to be. >> we can't have out of shape soldiers. what did you think of hegseth's workout.

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>> it is friday and that means its time for valentines friday follies. for that we turn to our fox news contributor, raymond arroyo. happy valentine's day. i'm feeling very generous. and i am granting you three wishes. >> oh, my goodness, think you owe powerful one! firstly, i wish that people would focus on the true meaning of valentine's day and not on the cheap confections that have destroyed the feasting. how did we go from a third century priest was clubbed to death and beheaded for secretly marrying people to a man in his 23-year-old girlfriend

celebrating their me to anniversary. that's what they call it, that's where we are. >> laura: that is a new one, i have never heard of that one. i think it's nice that she is wearing her bathing suit to the super bowl, whatever that is. now some of these valentines cards might be a little much. >> yes, like those you can find in your local card aisle. or look at this one. to my work husband or wife on valentine's day, i finally found someone as inappropriate as me. each card comes with a fast pass to the hr department. this is horrible. if your actual husband or wife, this is not what you want your spouse giving to some stranger in the workplace that you have never met before. it is horrible and it undermines the entire intention of the holiday which one would hope would be celebrating committed, long-term love and the occasional clubbing. >> laura: now there is one valentine that was posted by the white house today. i kind of liked it, here it is.

roses are red, violets are blue, come here illegally and we will deport you r. >> isn't that touching! deportations though, those deportations are likely to cost less than the $14.6 billion that americans will spend on valentine's day cards, flowers and those pajama grams which are getting very expensive, it's all too much. how about a romantic dinner and a movie? and speaking of wasting money, for my second wish, pity tlc who are blowing millions of dollars bringing alec baldwin and his family back to television. i wish they wouldn't. >> i know people who went through what i went through. you never see them again. >> when it was over, everybody came up to us very kindly and you wanted to give us a hug. >> 66 years old, i've got a 2-year-old baby. a joke and say you know ray should be right now?

i should be drinking a cappuccino and reading a book and having dinner with spielberg. >> instead we are changing things. >> if i were the baldwin's, i would refrain from using the word shoot, that is a bad word for them to use. >> laura: that's a good point. does he think that makes them more appealing? the talk about the fact that he has a toddler and that he should be on steven spielberg's yacht? he wants to endear himself to people. it makes him another out of touch elite. >> how does that help him reach the common man? he said at the beginning, i know a lot of people who went through what i went through. how many other actors does he know that killed people, laura? robert wagner aside. but he was cleared. >> laura: there is a person who is dead. he is focusing on that, there is a dead person. so anyway, raymond, final wish. >> that's one i won't be watching. >> laura: what's her last wish? >> since this is all about love, i wish the pin field central

district school board would show a little more love to the people who pay their salaries. the parents of the kids in their school. on tuesday, parents packed a school board meeting to complain about a book displayed in an elementary school library called, the rainbow parade. the book reads, ever one is wearing whatever makes them feel most like themselves, even if that means wearing hardly anything at all. when parents tried to object, they were shut down. watch. >> excuse me, that is not how you object. so if you cannot, again, followed by what we have asked you to do, we will ask those people who cannot do that to be removed. we are here at our board meeting conducting our business. we're going to go into a recess, and we have a motion? we are in recess. >> laura: it is our school board meeting, the parents don't pay the bills... >> don't you love that? you know what you call that? that is the bureaucrat parade,

forget the rainbow parade, happy valentine's day. don't get clubbed and don't lose your head. >> laura: by the way, the picture of the book if you zoom in on it, you see snm leathers cartoons. hardly any clothes. >> and that's the cleanest photo we could show you. >> laura: parents don't have a right to say anything? and then they just get up and walk off and a half, that's what they do. the cover is not so bad. >> it is there school district? no, it is the children and parents school district. >> laura: unbelievable. you and rebecca have a nice valentine's day, that is that for all of us. we had a great week, i hope you enjoyed it as much as we did, so much happening all the time and we will stand top of it for you. remember to follow me on social media all weekend long, think you for watching. remember it is american now and forever, jesse watters takes it from here. j