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>> i'm not going to evaluate that. >> if the dollar billfolded up in the star of david. is it anti-semitic? i think you nodded your head yes. >> i know you would like to. i understand the back and forth you are trying to get away from the central point which is that we provide imagery and resources for our members to consider in their own intelligent, professional way. >> it is anti-semitic. >> the union resources are incredibly one sided and anti-israel and fears it could make its way into the classroom. the union president said is union is not saying teachers should use these resources in the classroom but meant to educate them on the conflict. >> dana: that's disturbing. and this. >> forceful event where all of a
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sudden everything went sideways and then next thing i know it is a blink and i'm upside down still strapped in. >> dana: passengers in shock after the delta flight crash landed upside down in toronto. new video giving us another angle of the moment it happened. it might be the clearest view yet. all 80 people on board made it out okay. 19 of the 21 have been released from the hospital and we'll talk to one of them coming up. first this. the powers of doge facing high profile court battles as we wait for a decision on doge efforts to access federal records and the authority to cut government jobs. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: how are you doing? >> dana: it's upsetting to watch the plane landing that way. >> bill: a chance to get more imagery and more video in as well. bill hemmer, good morning. doge digging deep peeling away layer upon layer of hidden
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spending saving taxpayers billions already as elon musk and doge push uncle sam to show me the money and where it is going. >> dana: a steady flurry of legal action. waiting on a court ruling on a bid from several states to block doge efforts. the white house saying it's time to pull the plug on government waste. >> far too long we've had a bureaucracy running these agencies. look at what has resulted in. tens of billions of dollars in waste, fraud and abuse every single year. more than 77 million americans reelected president trump to promote monumental, fundamental change. to shake up the washington swamp and nobody better than elon musk to do that. >> alina habba joins us in a moment. hillary vaughn with more on the doge savings on the hill. david spunt has more on the legal battles. david, let's begin this hour with you. hello. >> good morning. the same judge that oversaw thely re alleged election
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interference case for president trump now handing his administration, declining to halt doge. she was not persuaded enough. she is allowing doge to continue to access federal data. she is doing this despite lawsuits from 14 state attorneys general. you see in yellow here seeking to block doge from accessing government systems for 14 days. she said she will issue a ruling at some point today. we're expecting that in the next few hours. expressed skepticism of the attorney general's argument acting that doge poses imminent harm. the supreme court gearing up with most of these court hearings from across the country headed in that direction. yesterday the president asked the nine justices allowed him to fire the head of the former
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office -- he oversaw the agency that protects federal employees. another federal court judge in washington will hear the largest independent federal employees union, national treasury employees union suing to block president trump's efforts to reduce the federal workforce. another day, another handful of court cases which may not have been decided on the actual merits. right now we're still in the temporary restraining order phase in many of these cases to block some of the efforts from taking effect. largely most cases have been friendly to the trump administration from judges that were appointed by president biden. back to you. >> bill: david spunt in washington on that. >> dana: as doge reveals just how much taxpayers have saved because of its work sources tell fox the department's access to the i.r.s. data is imminent. fox business network's hillary vaughn live on capitol hill. hi.
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>> doge has recovered, $55 billion for american taxpayers mostly by weeding out waste. canceling unnecessary contracts and real estate leases that aren't being used. that number will continue to grow as doge has put new fraud controls in place at treasury so no money goes out the door without a line item explaining what the money is for. today doge could be getting access to the sensitive payment system that holds taxpayer records. dodge is eyeing social security for fraud. those two things have even some doge-friendly democrats turning against them. senator john fetterman saying i want to save billions of your money and make our government more efficient. rummaging through personal stuff is not that. other democrats hope the courts step in to stop musk. >> there are already lawsuits filed that once again just like with the i.r.s. data, the court, a court will find that no, you can't just start rummaging through people's social security data.
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>> musk says he isn't snooping, he is sniffing out fraud saying if i wanted to rummage through random personal stuff i would have done that at pay pell. hello, having tens of millions people marked alive when they are dead is a huge problem. the white house says musk is doing exactly what president trump has asked him to do. >> president trump has directed elon musk and the doge team to identify fraud at the social security administration. number one, to identify duplicate payments and to end them. two, to identify payments going to deceased people who are no longer living and should no longer be receiving that money. >> dana, for democrats doge has become a dirty word but it is important to point out that people at doge are federal employees working alongside hundreds of federal employees at the social security administration and i.r.s. who have access to your personal information on a daily basis. dana. >> dana: thank you so much, hillary. for more on this counselor to
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the president alina habba. what about that guy, do you remember chris little? the guy who worked at the i.r.s. and ended up going to jail because he released trump's tax returns. and the left didn't seem to mind that at all. i just look at all of this and i think there is just a ton of lawsuits that you guys are dealing with. we can scroll through them for everybody to see. how do you keep track of this? >> white house counsel's office is doing an amazing job coordinating with the d.o.j. and pam's team. keeping up with something like this is something we expected. we're used to and frankly thank them for training us for the last four years in dealing with their lawfare. we're winning on them but you brought up little john. people seem to forget that. i remember i was at the court in d.c. when he was getting his sentencing and i made a statement about that and how unfair and ridiculous it is to target people based on their
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politics and littlejohn was somebody who worked at the i.r.s., targeted president trump's tax returns. trump organization, and then released them. there was a series of other billionaires and wealthy individuals that he went after as well. that was outlandish and barely covered. i appreciate you bringing that up. look, we're doing exactly what america mandated november 5th. cleaning up waste, fraud and protecting you, the american people, and our money. we pay a lot of taxes. we need that money to be spent wisely. so the fact that we're being stopped by people who are elon musk, donald trump billionaires who know how to run businesses is insane to me. i would love for them to come in and help me make billions or safe billions of dollars and what they are doing for next to nothing for the american people. >> bill: this is one of the main headlines that came out yesterday afternoon on the doge x feed on their website. i don't know where it goes but here is how it reads. treasury access symbol tas links
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a treasury payment to a budget line item standard financial process. in the federal government the tas field was optional for 4.7 trillion in payments. was often left blank making traceability almost impossible. as of saturday, this is now a required field. increasing insight into where money is going thanks to u.s. treasury for the great work. for the democratic pushback. address that. are we to believe that 4.7 trillion was going out the door without a name on it or do you think we'll in all likelihood in time as to who was the recipient? >> the blessing in following the money is it usually is something prosecutors do frequently. there is a tracking. we should be able to see where that money goes in time. in the immediate, what he has done is told everybody look, you have a bookkeeping system for america. the treasury department that has that amount of money, trillions of dollars with no name, no
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identifier that could be spent. do we believe there is fraud? absolutely. you are looking at somehow some of these bureaucrats from d.c. that have never left but make hundreds of thousands of dollars and worth tens of millions, close to 100 million in certain circumstances, do we believe there is a chance they could be funneling these to ngos with interests? we know that happens. it is a real problem, bill. putting this in is a critical accountability measure that we are doing so under this administration when money is earmarked by the treasury you will know exactly where it goes. >> dana: these are several democrats who are saying that they've got the answer to push back on doge. watch. >> it is not allowed to say i don't like that, i will spend this money not that money. >> we'll continue to work together in an all hands on deck effort to push back against the far right extremism that is being unleashed on this country with record velocity.
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>> we are winning in court. many temporary restraining orders and injunctions are issued. >> dana: what do you think the democrats might pivot to have an opposition if the court cases fail? >> let me address the tro. that's a temporary restraining order put in place when the judges take a look at the actual facts. it is temporary. that is what they are referring to as winning. they aren't winning. once these go up the judges have reversed them or seen there is real fraud and we aren't doing anything wrong. what do i think? i don't know, dana. they were singing songs last week. that was something i never thought i would see, chuck schumer is holding a beer and trying to get american people upset over the super bowl because we save them money. you can't put anything below them in terms of how low they will go. it is so desperate. but i want to keep reiterating something. everything we're doing is what
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was mandated number one, number two, the save us money. spend money correctly. and they are going as extreme as to blame a plane flipping is in crept on the trump administration. faa does not control canadian air traffic. it is a spin, radical liberal media. a problem and we have to hold them accountable to it. >> bill: thanks for coming on. more to come on that. appreciate your time today. sean has the interview. he sits down with donald trump and elon musk. you will hear it for the first time exclusively 9:00 eastern here on the fox news channel. don't miss that. okay. and this. >> drop it, drop it. come on. don't take that.
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>> dana: that disaster north of the border. a delta plane crashes and flips outside down in toronto. everyone on board survived. we'll hear from one of the survivors who took this video. >> dhs making it clear to anyone looking to enter the u.s. illegally do so now at your own risk. >> president trump has a clear message for those that are in our country illegally. leave now. if you don't, we'll find you and we will deport you.
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>> dana: breaking news. zelenskyy, the president of ukraine was scheduled to go to saudi arabia for a meeting tomorrow. that's where we have u.s. officials meeting with russian
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officials to discuss possible peace plans and cease-fire. but he has changed his mind. he instead is going to leave turkey and head back to ukraine. he is expected to give some remarks in turkey before he does that. he has canceled his trip to saudi arabia. we don't know what that means. the u.s. russia peace talks are happening now in saudi arabia. zelenskyy now is not going to go there at least at this moment. this is all breaking right now. we'll continue to follow that and bring you more as we have it. >> for too long weak politicians left our borders wide open. they flooded our communities with drug, human trafficking and violent criminals and put american lives at risk. those days are over. under president trump america's borders are closed to law breakers. follow the law and you will find opportunity. break it and you will find consequences. >> bill: a clear message,
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illegal immigrants, u.s. borders are closed. if you are here now, leave or be deported. former acting ice director and former federal prosecutor, good morning to you. what do you think of that spot. how effective? >> it is spot on in terms of messaging and you really juxtapose that with the require administration whose message was come on in and you will get every benefit we provide american citizens. they talked in all these false narratives. this is great. it is telling the people here illegally if you want to leave on your own, that's the way to do it and you will have a chance to come back legally in the future. if you have to be deported or arrested you will never have that opportunity. you can either do it the easy way or the hard way. i think it is a great message not only for the people here illegally but people that may be tempted to come here illegally. they will decide it is not worth it. >> bill: kristi noem was on with
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jesse last night. they were talking about this. you like the spot. this is what she said. >> america is a place where you come to pursue the american dream and that this president will always put americans first. these sanctuary cities, sanctuary counties are a struggle. that's why i'm excited to get pam bondi and the department of justice on board and use every authority we have and work together on a plan to make sure that we are prosecuting everybody to the fullest extent of the law that we can and making sure that we are taking care of those criminal aliens where we're able to go after them. >> bill: one specific question on this. how are they going to crack the wall of these sanctuary cities in america? >> two things. one, withhold funding which they are already doing for d.o.j. and hopefully congress joins in on that. they can look at them for federal crimes such as obstruction of justice but more significantly the federal harboring statute that says if you do anything to conceal, shield or harbor illegal aliens
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from being deported or detected you could be guilty of harboring. a lot of these sanctuary cities have been engaged in a very long-term harboring enterprise in which they have been concealing their efforts, concealing the illegal aliens from deportation, from being revealed. i think those are the things that they will focus on. but it will be funding, prosecution, and most of these sanctuary cities are going to yield. a few of them will hold on and they will be examples and wish they did yield. >> bill: another story that's popping. a few outlets are reporting. intriguing. c.i.a. expands secret drone flights over mexico. that's the headline "the new york times." the program began during the biden administration and stepped up by president trump in hunting the location of fentanyl labs. another piece in the "washington post" that talks about this as well. what do you think this means when you know the president has
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classified the cartels as a foreign terrorist organization? >> i think it means we're bringing the battle to the cartels and i think a lot of what we're doing on the border by cutting these numbers down. you saw the numbers recently around 200 or so a day of people coming across. it aborder patrol and other law enforcement to focus on the cartels. they won't control our border anymore. we're taking control and we'll devote all of our resources both law enforcement and otherwise to attack them and prevent the fentanyl from coming over. as you know and you report on it we are looking at 100,000 people a year dying from fentanyl and other drugs. this needs to stop. >> bill: question is whether or not mexico helps in this. they may. we'll see. nice to see you. thank you for coming on. jonathan, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> dana: terrifying scenes on the tarmac in toronto. we'll speak with one of the 80 survivors on board the delta plane that flipped on the
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a dozen people dead in kentucky. 14 overall. some of the scenes we get. williamsburg, kentucky. water sitting on the ground. rivers overflowed. the levy over the top in tennessee. we'll leave studio j and slip over to the weather studio, studio w and check out what the fox weather folks are doing. lead the way here. steven morgan is on stand by. figuring out what's next in store for the folks in kentucky, tennessee and maybe virginia. what do you have now? >> it is wild we're still dealing with flooding. we heard from the governor folks dealing with the flooding need to stay home. we have a winter storm watch and winter storm warning for several counties. almost the entire state. a couple of counties to the north that aren't under it. if you look at the map on friday, flood watches for the entire part.
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>> bill: i grew up in southwestern ohio. any time kentucky gets snow or ice it is tough for the folks there. they don't have the equipment. >> that's the one problem. when you look at the flooding concerns, we were following this over the weekend. hazard, kentucky july of 2022 we had a significant flash flood event in hazard. that was in the summer. in the winter you don't often see it. you get warmer air that can come in and produces quite a bit of rain. but when you get up close to the ohio river it is tough to grapple with. the concerning thing here flooding is ongoing, you see some of these totals. >> bill: we'll watch that and glenn youngkin will have a news conference also. what were you seeing weather-wise in toronto
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yesterday afternoon? >> we know that investigation will take a while to complete. from a weather perspective it was blustery. we had winds, typical flight out of minneapolis should be a pretty easy flight. a nice tailwind. the wind moving west to east. on approach and given the investigation what will be unkofshgd look at the wind gusts. at the time it was landing 40 mile-per-hour winds. when you are dealing with it, planes should be able to land with a little bit of a cross wind. there will be restrictions that go into effect. we saw it in the northeast. some had delays in place and ground stops briefly. with the west wind how much of that played a factor into the decent. we have new video coming in today what looked to be a really rough landing. could weather have been a part? possibly. planes should be able to land in snow. >> bill: pilots are trained for
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that. weather is a big part of the investigation. he came down hard. >> it was a hard landing. winds were gusty. high wind warnings. canada and how the alerts happen in canada are different than the u.s. transportation safety board of canada leading that investigation. i will say weather will be something that is looked at pretty closely. >> bill: thank you, steven. get back to work. >> we have a winter storm on our hands. >> we had a crash. >> dana: harrowing moments on a runway in toronto. delta flight crash landing and flipping outside down. all 80 people made it out okay. my next guest is one of them. the video he took of crews pulling passengers to safety. >> drop it. come on. don't take that with you.
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[bleep] [bleep] . holy [bleep]. oh my [bleep] god. >> dana: pete is here with us. we're so glad you are with us. can you take it through what it was like moments before the crash landing? >> yeah. basically we hit the ground and kind of bounced up and turned on our side and were sliding on our side for a while. honestly not as long as i thought we would slide for and we ended up upside down and we were hanging by our seat belts upside down for a second and then yeah, we made it off safely. everyone is alive, thankfully. >> dana: do you fly quite a bit into that area in the winter?
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>> not to toronto, no. i do fly a lot into places where there is variable weather. >> dana: do you have a sense of what happened upon the landing? >> what do you mean? >> dana: did you know it was going to be a hard landing. any warning? >> there was no warning from the pilot. there was no physical warning, either. i didn't feel like anything was wrong until the second the wheels touched the ground and then it all went mayhem from there. >> dana: seems that since we understand that 21 people were taken to the hospital, 19 have been released. so thankfully it sounds like everyone had their seat belts on. can you explain, how did you then -- how do you unbuckle and get out? >> i was able pretty quickly to -- you are hanging suspended. i was pretty -- me and the girl next to me were able to get out
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pretty quickly and kind of like climb, sort of fall down to the ground, which was the ceiling. and then other people needed some help and people were sort of falling but i don't think -- no one was hurt by getting down from their seat belts. >> dana: and then afterwards you are outside and i'm sure it was extremely told. you didn't take anything with you, correct? >> no. they were telling everyone to leave everything as they should have and then there was an ambulance or fire truck we kind of huddled. it was windy so we stood on one side of that. >> dana: i will show everybody a timeline of the plane crash leaving minneapolis heading to toronto. all 80 passengers were evacuated around 4:3three delta airlines
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released a statement regarding the incident. at 5:00, pretty quickly, the airport resumed accepting air traffic. what was your final destination? >> toronto. i left from denver and i had a layover in minneapolis. and then toronto. >> dana: we're grateful that you are here with us and that you were able to join us and able to get that video so we can piece together the story and we wish you the very best. thanks so much, pete. >> thank you. >> bill: calm cat. happy to be home, right? >> dana: he is the most calm, cool, collected guy i've talked to in quite a while. >> bill: a couple things here. a live look now, screen left. that's what is happening at the plane site now. nate foye was on the air at 6:00 and ten degrees below zero. that's what they are dealing with. not just the wind and cold air. screen right the video that popped 30 minutes ago.
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that's from behind the plane as it hits the runway. we led our broadcast an hour and 37 minutes ago with a new video we found from the cockpit of another plane that seemed to be waiting to either pass that runway or getting ready to take off. you can see the plane from left to right come all the way down. here it is now. just watch the right side of this aircraft here. that's going to be a major focus whether it's the landing gear or the wing or whether or not -- we had the expert on. he landed f-18 hornets and he said his rate of descent had to always be careful and the numbers he was seeing according to him is that the rate of descent from this pilot was much faster than it should have been. if he is on to something, we'll watch that. >> dana: thank you to pete for being here. check this out. >> one of the challenges i think
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>> bill: now as we mentioned last hour democrat donors withholding funds apparently frustrated over faulty leadership and messaging from the top. they are keeping their wallets support close to their chest. mark meredith has more from d.c. on this. what are you learning? >> democrats have been doing a
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lot of soul searching since president trump's victory. party has a new chairman, donors aren't opening their wallets yet. some of the country's biggest liberal donors have paused giving frustrated with what they see as democrats' lack of vision. some blame former president biden for his situation after his latex it from the 2024 race and others question if kamala harris was the right candidate for the job. democrats are still very vocal and holding protests in d.c. trying to counter the administration. democratic donors say the party has to appeal to people on issues like the economy. >> there is a desire for a new voice of pragmatism, centrism and most of all connection to ordinary people and how they live their lives. >> the newly chosen chairman of the democratic party is on the road this week visiting so-called red states. ken martin will visit pennsylvania, texas, illinois,
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wisconsin and missouri. dnc says the tour is all about trying to show the party can invest time, money, resources in places conservatives usually dominate. we're seeing layoffs among democratic interest groups given the hard times they're facing. >> bill: nice to see you in washington. vert as the democrats struggle to find footing the new dnc chair saying the disconnect has never been greater. >> so many parts of our coalition left us this last election cycle. we know that from latino and working class households and young votes and women. you can go down the list. the only two groups with over performed were wealthy households and college educated voters. that's a damming indictment on the democratic party. >> dana: our power panel is joining us now. dave, as a democrat outside of d.c. looking in, what it has been like the last few weeks for
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you? >> good to be back with you, dana. it is very typical to have the soul searching after you lose an election. that's not nothing new. democrats are looking for a voice. when you don't have the house or senate you will struggle to find a voice. the people i speak to believe you go to the swinging states of pennsylvania. who is the most popular democrat there? josh shapiro. how is he able to do it? john fetterman. a current u.s. senator a bit of a maverick. i don't think it should be that tough. voices like andy beshear, a democrat in a red state. they have places to go and they need to think outside the box. >> dana: dave, i don't think you will get a lot of disagreement. matt, that isn't where the dnc showed they were. they decided to go with something quite progressive and not in the mold of the type of democrat that dave was just talking about. >> he goes on morning joe and spouts.
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parties lose get overly -- kamala harris didn't lose because she didn't go of joe rogue an. they lost because put butt their policies are unpopular. immigration debate moved away from them. they didn't recognize it. banning men from women's sports is an 80/20 issue. they were on the wrong side of it and they are falling into the trap defending bureaucrats and foreign aid and acting like government jobs are lifetime contracts and their own party is laying people off. trump almost traps the party into opposing him when he is taking somewhat common sense stances. >> dana: dave, listen to ken martin the new dnc chair on this idea how do you resist trump and musk? >> the first thing we need to do is stand up. if we aren't willing to right now resist donald trump and jd
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vance and musk when the stakes are so high for the american people how in the hell are anyone going to believe we would stand up and fight for them if they put us back in power? we have to resist. >> dana: but then someone wrote this. the democrats' bureaucracy problem and hemorrhaging working class voters, a defense of government bureaucracy does not appear to be a promising route to getting back. in florida i wonder what you think about that perspective? >> president trump is relatively popular. elon musk is not. an opening for democrats. the richest person in the world trying to take an axe to the agencies serving the poorest people in the world. you have an opening there as he is destroying agencies going after civil service. not cutting like this is supposed to be about government efficiency, not wholesale destruction. we need budget cuts. what are you doing is beyond the pale and unpopular if you see
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the effects like more plane crashes. >> dana: the plane crashes, dave, do you honestly think the plane crash has anything to do with president trump or elon musk? >> i don't. i'm just saying if you have things like more plane crashes then the person who is slashing faa will get blamed. you broke it, you own it. >> dana: you are a lawyer, i'm not falling for the hypothetical. quick last word to you, matt. >> the focus group in arizona last week. biden 2020 voters and every one of them supported what musk and trump were doing. bureaucracy is way too bloated and we need to take chunks out of it and people are willing to give wide latitude because they know it needs to be done. >> dana: great to have you booth. have a great day. >> bill: trump pointing out companies can avoid tariffs by
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>> harris: news conference coming up with what they can tell us out of the flight from minneapolis that crashed upside down. president trump's department of government efficiency is pressing against now the heavy weight of deep state defenders. while elon musk continues to try to uncover tens of millions of misspent dollars. "the faulkner focus" is at the top of the hour. >> dana: flu cases are surging nationwide. cdc tracking a season high especially across the eastern coast of new york city and new hampshire down to south
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carolina. hit the hardest. medical professional warning weather patterns, travel and populations and the largest factors contributing to the uptick. wash hands, take care. drink a lot of water. >> bill: a lot of folks here have got it, too. made in the usa. president trump looking to level the playing field with tariffs and trying to get companies to make their products in this country. lauren. >> everything in the made in america store is literally made in the usa right down to the packaging. bill, it is extremely hard to do. listen. >> i don't have no that plugs in or takes a battery out of 15,000 products. we've been to the moon but can't make a toaster. you have to make made in america important again. >> the owner, mark, is leading the effort to bring manufacturing jobs back home. check out this chart.
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you can see in the past 45 years manufacturing employment is down by a whopping 35%. the threat of tariffs is one way to bring jobs back but some items like those batteries, but also malted barley, ipas and rubber trees, tires are not primarily sourced here. some nearby businesses say they might have to increase prices. sure, some americans will pay more for quality products but the question is, with the northern border just a few miles away, what is the stopgap measure? what do you do in the meantime when you don't want to eat the cost or increase prices but can't get a product made here as quickly as you need it? >> bill: good point. see where it goes. what have you got? >> dana: before we go, i have a little news and yes, it is this. there is a new book that i'm coming out with this april.
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you can pre-order it now at fox news books.com. i wish someone had told me, the best advice for building a great career and meaningful life. this is special to me for a couple reasons. i was able to incorporate people like you, great colleagues of mine. everybody from "the five" in on it. the best advice, everything from how to decide what you want to do, how to get promoted, what you should do in terms of work/life balance and retirement. all in one place. i didn't do it just aimed to young women which i had done before. this is for everybody. >> bill: a sequel of sorts would you say? >> dana: it grew out of this. i did everything will be okay and does well for young women in the quarter life crisis age. then there were young men who said what about us? that's a good point. also, i think because i have this wide group of friends and colleagues so successful here i
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decided you could make a one stop shopping place or book where everything you need in one place for the freshest new content. very convenient or efficient. you are in it and have great advice for people. >> bill: i think the common thread is that everybody has a different route. everybody has a different idea and everybody has a different way of getting there. but i think there are commonalities that you found. >> dana: definitely. >> bill: my three rules. ask a thousand questions, play well with others and always available. >> dana: yes, you are always available indeed. work/life balancing was interesting. talked to a lot of moms trying to figure that out. it is available now at fox news books.com. it will be out in april. "the faulkner focus" is up next, here she is. >> harris: fox news alert. official updat

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