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 update on the passenger

jet that left minneapolis and flipped up side down on a runway at a toronto, canada airport. that's coming up. 21 people injured. we know no one perished. we'll get an update. of the 21 i can tell you this ahead of the update. 19 have been released from hospitals in toronto. we'll get more details when that happens. it is scheduled now for 11:30 a.m. eastern. you are in "the faulkner focus." let's take a look at the new video capturing the moment the plane hit the runway.

>> harris: we continue to see new vantage points from where witnesses were rolling as we all do with our cell phones and those cameras. a massive fireball erupted as you saw the jet crash into the tarmac there. this is toronto pearson international airport. all 80 of the passengers made it off that plane alive after being forced to dangle, some of them, upside down. when the plane flipped over they were seat belted into their seats and some had to climb down from that position. a few fell we understand from what witnesses are saying and they made it off the plane. >> this is an active investigation. it is very early on. it is really important that we do not speculate. what we can say is the runway was dry and no crosswind

conditions. >> harris: despite what he is saying there the fox weather center reported gusts of wind reaching nearly 40 miles-per-hour as the plane was landing. so they've got to figure out exactly what the conditions were obviously as they investigate this. you heard from the fire chief. fox weather says something different. while these planes are made to with stand very high winds, air traffic control had this warning for pilots. >> harris: it was for the pilot crew in the plane. it was air traffic control saying this is what's going on. nate foye is in toronto, canada, with the latest.

>> a lot of questions left to be answered. you can see that we have moved inside the airport as we await an update from the airport's ceo coming up at 11:30. the big takeaway in the past couple hours new numbers from delta. 21 people injured of the 80 people on board. two people still in the hospital receiving care. officials said last night none of the injuries are believed to be life threatening. we also have brand-new video in "focus" this hour showing this crash landing from a different angle. take a look at this. you see the plane come down right side up. the wing immediately detaches. the plane slides down the runway with fire under it as the fuselage rotates upside down. one passenger described hanging upside down like a bat. because of the fire passengers needed to get out of the airplane quickly. not only did the crew doing a great job but people helped each other in this moment of danger.

take a look. >> drop it. come on. >> you see the cabin crew leading with other passengers also helping guide others off the plane that was upside down. every single person on that flight is accounted for and one passenger explained what it was like in the chaotic moments. >> as we made our descent and made touchdown it was just a very forceful event where all of a sudden everything went sideways and then next thing i know it was a blink and i'm upside down still strapped in. >> it seems like a miracle that this wasn't worse. the flight operated by endeavor, subsidiary of delta took off from minneapolis. the plane involved is a crj900. the same family of aircraft as the plane involved in the midair collision in washington, d.c. in

late january. this now makes four plane crashes in north america in the past month, harris. so this bad stretch continues. meanwhile here at toronto pearson international airport operations do continue. two of the five runways here are shut down and will continue to be shut down in the foreseeable future as this investigation proceeds. send it back to you. >> harris: you got my attention with the tarmac video. what we know about what people had to go through potentially, some of them, dangling, not potentially, they were having to get out. it is a miracle that you see so many people walking on that tarmac because they could. what a blessing. we do have just one piece of information that i'm looking forward to specifically at this news conference. i want to know if you are talking to people about this on the ground. the fire chief in toronto says the snowy conditions on the ground and high winds, that actually wasn't going on. fox weather says oh, it was definitely gusting with a lot of

force, the winds were. is that something that people are talking about? have you asked about that on the ground? >> that's something that we plan on asking about the airport ceo, may be unlikely to know much about that or answer about that considering it with as the fire chief who made that surprising comment last night. saying right before that he didn't want to get ahead of the investigation and make presumptions. that detail confused people because there were wind gusts last night of 38 miles-per-hour and you heard the air traffic control tower warning the pilots as they were landing that it could be a potential issue. so that's certainly something that we'll keep digging on, harris, here and try to get the fire chief to elaborate on that and made him say he was confident that the wind wasn't a big factor but saw snow on the ground and said the runway was totally dry. some questions left to be answered for sure. >> harris: i know you'll get it.

thank you very much. we await the news conference. it is set to start in a few minutes. also right around that time we will be talking with mike, a 30-year veteran commercial pilot. here is the key. he led the congressional investigation into the 1996 crash of twa flight 800. he knows how to look at these things. we'll get into it with him when he joins me in a bit. president trump and elon musk are announcing some big savings on the doge website. an estimated $55 billion. that's all in less than a month. republican congressman with this. >> doge has got a lot of momentum. taxpayers are sick and tired of money being squandered and people talking about it for decades and nobody doing anything about it. finally we have a president who will take bold action. >> harris: there are now doge social media accounts for every single government department to expose all of the waste, fraud

and abuse. some of those issues were already exposed before president trump took office. the government accountability office had reported 236 billion in improper payments for fiscal year 2023. they estimate those improper payments total nearly $3 trillion over the last two decades. despite that democrats are pushing back. protests against the agency are popping up across the country. but it wasn't too long ago that president obama described the very thing doge is doing. >> 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 don't need to wait for congress in order to do something about wasteful spending that's out there. cutting waste, making government more efficient is something that leaders in both parties have worked on. we haven't seen as much action out of congress as we would like

and why we launched on our own initiative the campaign to cut waste. >> harris: oh, we launched something on our own initiative. i'm so glad to welcome republican congressman andy biggs of the great state of arizona. you also had former president obama there talking about bipartisan and how everybody should work together. i don't know if the left of today is listening. >> that's right, harris. it wasn't just president obama. there are members of the democrat party sitting in congress today who have actually introduced legislation periodically that mirrors what is happening in doge. but when you see our hearings over and over again, they are going after elon musk personally, going after president trump personally. it is as if they don't want to get to the bottom of that wasteful spending, which includes fraudulent spending and corruption. so yeah, they've been there but

they are kind of holding their heads back at least publicly. a few have said yeah, we have to do something. most publicly are just fighting us. >> harris: on this program yesterday we know democratic voters and democrat supporters of the party have said maybe we should have been doing this in the past a little bit more so that, you know, we could at least talk about it from an informed stance, just the thought. elon musk was speaking about democrats turning on him. let's watch. >> i used to be adored by the left. not anymore. he killed that. >> i really did. >> it is this whole -- interesting cult. trump derangement syndrome. you don't realize how real this is until it is -- you can't reason with people. i was at a friend's birthday party, a birthday dinner. happened to mention the president's name and it is like they got shot with a dart in the jug lair that contained meth and

rabies. guys, you can't have a normal conversation. it is like they become completely irrational. >> harris: the interview airs tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern. congressman, look, we know politics are always at play but the people are in the middle here and we have to get this straight. >> that's exactly right. when you start talking about the amount of money that has gone out in improper payments or the million and a half people that doge is saying possibly don't even exist that are getting social security benefits, that impacts you and me and impacts every american who is paying taxes. because these are wrongful payments going out. that adds to our deficit and national debt which is stuff that we have to live with because our federal government has been absolutely irresponsible in how it has

audited for managed its spending abilities and responsibilities. that requires in my opinion accountability. >> harris: you wonder, too, as elon musk and the team at doge are looking into this, are they privy to some of the previous looks at some of the spending, too? there were audits that happened over decades. they just didn't balance the budget. i don't think they even approached doing it. so i'm certain we'll find out so much more going forward about what they knew and didn't do anything about. senate republicans are hoping to push through a plan to boost border security by $175 billion just this week. the bill would also include more funding for energy projects and defense spending. republican senator lindsey graham leading the charge to get this past explained why they need to act right now. >> i've never been more worried about a terrorist attack on our homeland than i am now. tom homan said the activity on the northern border is at an alarming rate. he talked about trying to find

these children. half of us started to cry. you have no idea what hell these kids are going through. and the sooner we can give ice and other people the money to free them, the better off our country will be. we are hitting a wall. they need the money and they need it now. >> harris: you know, you and i have had some really heart scratching moments, too, watching the missing children part of this entire disaster at the border. you see lindsey graham there tearing up. it is understandable. it is against our soul if we don't protect little ones no matter where they come from and if they need to be sent back how do we do that? i know the house is working on something, too. can you tell us about that? >> yeah. there is agreement, harris, on the amount of money that needs to go out. this is a 10-year package between 150 and $175 billion but

when i talked to tom homan, he told me a month ago he says andy, we're about out of money. ice is in the hole already. we need this money now. so you need the money for everything for detention, to remove people from the country, buying the seats. you need to -- we are driving trucks that are 250,000 miles that don't run. so harris, we've got a massive problem there and that's not even getting to the orr, office of refugee and resettlement problem where they've lost the 330,000 children. that's their number. i always think they are probably under counting those numbers as we go forward. tom wants to get those kids. he wants to recover them and also wants to remove people from this country who are dangerous and need to be removed from this country as soon as possible. >> harris: hard to believe that anybody would defend the other side of that politically. hard to believe.

quick last word. >> thanks, harris, we've got to get this done asap. we have to get tom the money and resources to carry out this agenda on border security. it was a main thing in the campaign. >> harris: congressman andy biggs, thank you for being with me. >> my pleasure. >> harris: we're awaiting the update out of canada on the plane that flipped over after landing. a lot of questions of what may have caused this. a former commercial airline pilot and has investigated crashes in the past will be in "focus" next. mopping is hard work, but i thought it was the only way i can get my floors truly clean. and then i tried the swiffer powermop and realized i can get cleaner floors without the extra work. it has a built-in solution that breaks down dirt on contact. and the pads hundreds of strips scrub away sticky messes even from grout lines. ok powermop! plus, it's 360-degree swivel head

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>> harris: breaking news now. it has been 500 days since the

hostage taking blood thirsty hamas terrorists who committed a massacre on october 7th. now they are saying that they will release the bodies of four israeli hostages this thursday. hamas says they'll release four, including the two youngest held in captivity. you see their pictures on the screen. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot is in tel aviv, israel. greg, this is so tough, this involves the bevis family. they've spoken up and said they don't have this officially. what do we know? >> moving stuff, harris, talks to get to phase two of this cease-fire hostage deal between israel and hamas are set to begin later this week in cairo. as you noted, the end of phase one is also delivering some very strong stuff. israeli government today says all the remaining living

hostages will be released in this phase. six of them and they will be out on saturday. as you noted, the remains of four of the eight deceased hostages also in this stage will be handed over by hamas on thursday. there is no official word, harris, we must underscore this from israel yet. but hamas has indicated, there are other reports, that 32-year-old mother, and her two very young children could be released on that day. that is their remains. the deceased remains of these three. in fact, they were so famous, so popular, so infamous in the highlights of what hamas has done. this could be again a very, very moving day. hamas getting some deliverables for that. bulldozers, trailers, tents and more palestinian releases about

israel. in lebanon the deadline for israeli troops to pull back between hezbollah and israel. it is leaving some troops in place inside lebanon at five border locations. it is the beating down of iranian -- it has caught the attention of senator lindsey graham. here on a congressional delegation visit and told us iran's nukes have to be next. >> i talked to everybody in israel from all sectors of the political spectrum. they believe that iran is trying to acquire nuclear weapon and they will use it against israel. i agree with that and time is not on our side. >> time is not on our side, harris. graham and others also feel that hamas has to be completely finished and that is also a part of phase two that hamas is eradicate i had from gaza. the tricky thing about phase

two, however, israel has the leave gaza as well and why it is so difficult. we have other emotions and other strong scenes to get to before we're there. we'll see what happens on thursday. this country could be quite shaken up. back to you. >> harris: hamas are such liars. they told the man released last week that his wife and child had made it out alive knowing they had killed them until october 7th. he didn't find out until he was in the arms of family. this is a cruel and savage people, hamas. >> they are playing very dangerous mind games. >> harris: they have the world willing to deal with them because they are playing it with lies. great reporting as always. glad you are there. thank you. this is breaking, too. authorities are looking into a plane crash in toronto yesterday and all the passengers survived after a delta jet flipped over

on the runway. look at that. you can see it, it lands and turns. we're expecting that live update, official update on all of it from the toronto pearson airport ceo in just minutes. one passenger remembers those moments inside the plane. watch. >> one minute you are landing waiting to see your friends and people and the next minute you are physically upside down and really turned around. it sounded -- it was cement and metal, you know? >> harris: of course we brought you moments ago the air traffic control audio that we now have revealing the tense moments that officials realized the plane was burning on the tarmac. >> airplane just crashed. >> we just had a crash on runway 2-three. >> see whether they want to redeploy to the crash site or

not. >> the air croft upside down and burning. >> harris: the former commercial airline pilot and you also investigated a twa crash in the 1990s. tell me your first thoughts when you heard about this and also saw the video to go with it. >> hi, harris, the first thought, of course, when i saw the airplane upside down it was like no one is walking away from this. but then the video comes out after that of folks actually coming out of the emergency exit doors. so my first thought is this is a miracle that anyone comes out of this. >> harris: look, as you look at this as an aviator and investigator how important to know there are a couple of conflicting things out there? i don't want to lead too hard . people say what they think. the fire chief said it was clear

and no gusting winds. fox weather and others said we can tell you what the conditions were. here is what they were with winds gusting more than 30 miles-per-hour and snow on the ground. >> it is a very important detail. i hate to disparage the fire chief but i had the weather at the time of the crash and it was the winds were 270 at 26 gusting to 36. and then i have got actually the data from when they were at 532 feet, their sink rate and air speed indications. so the first thing i would look at. first of all you need to voice recorder and data recorder. they will show exactly what was taking place with the dynamics of the airplane. harris, one of the things we learn in all the u.s. major

carriers we've start out with is the approach stable? what that means is, as i'm coming in to land, am i consistent to making a safe landing? originally at most major airlines at 1,000 feet you had to be -- you could be unstable by i think it was ten miles-per-hour and off the heading 5 or ten degrees correcting. and you had to verbalize in the cockpit that you were correcting. at 500 feet, if you were not stable, 500 feet -- [inaudible] going down at 523 they were going down at 1100 feet a minute. and accelerating. at 500 feet. all the other major airlines if

you are not stable at 500 feet ready to land it is a mandatory go around. >> harris: okay. you pull back up and go around. when you say 270 at 26 to 36 mile-per-hour winds gusting that 270, are you talking about how far it was from the ground? >> no, no, no. that's the wind speed. the winds were blowing 270 degrees, the runway is 230. a 40 degree difference. the winds were 270 degrees out of the west at 26 knots and gusts to 36. >> harris: we have lost you there. technology was not our friend today but we got the gist of it. conditions on the ground were critical. what is equally critical to know what happened, not just the wind speed but the sink rate and how

close they were to the ground where they could have made a split decision and it was too late. we'll learn more about it as we get the live update on the crash when it happens we'll take it live. meanwhile, we are waiting for that. that's the lectern at the airport. we know that the toronto pearson international airport ceo will be there momentarily. stay close. rse over time. my eye doctor explained the root was inflammation. xiidra was made for that, so relief is lasting. xiidra treats the signs and symptoms of dry eye disease. don't use if allergic to xiidra and seek medical help if needed. common side effects include eye irritation, discomfort, blurred vision, and unusual taste sensation. don't touch container tip to your eye or any surface. before using xiidra, remove contact lenses and wait fifteen minutes before re-inserting. dry eye over and over? it's time for xiidra.

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we're expecting a ruling from the judge today. constitutional law attorney jonathan turley. >> this is a level of denial that borders on delusion. this is a person who was elected by the majority of voters on a platform to reduce the size of government and to root out waste. well, you have to look at the books. you have to look at the receipts. a trial judge can certainly try to stop that but that judge will be quickly reversed in my view. he is well within his article two powers. >> harris: he could not have said it better. in "focus" an, a former federal prosecutors. we do need to receipts. we need to find out where tax dollars are misstep. >> the deep state's days are numbered. particularly yesterday seeing the judge push back against the democratic efforts to shut down doge and to limit their access

is particularly telling. she was the one who was overseeing the d.c. criminal trial against donald trump and was very adversarial to him and his interests throughout that. rejected his arguments that jack smith was acting outside his authority and needed to have been a congressionally approved special counsel. jack smith had independent authority. independent from the attorney general and the president of the united states. elon musk is a totally different example where doge and elon both are operating as advisors to the president in a department that was established specifically for government reduction and technology improvements in the obama administration. i think that the legal arguments are very sound. lawsuits will come but i think they will continue to win. >> harris: i want to lean on that. a president can have whomever he would like as his advisor.

there is already somebody in place that is not maybe equal to elon musk but there. >> well, the appointments clause of the constitution that requires some particular individuals to be approved essentially through the advice and consent of the senate. when it comes to an advisor to the presidential -- to the president's authority and the president maintains authority over the actions of their senior advisors there are plenty of senior advisors within the white house and that's been the case throughout the history of the presidency of the united states. this is nothing new. president trump is essentially saying whatever is going on with doge, the buck stops with him in the white house in the oval office. so these are people who are operating on his behalf not independently. >> harris: that is so important for people to hear. i will put that on a loop and put it on social media today. seriously. what people are being told, what voters are being told is there is something untoward going on with musk playing the role of

advisor. i couldn't do that job, i guess anybody could be the advisor if the president wanted it. the buck stops with trump. >> we should hope that the smartest and best capable of doing that in our country are the ones doing that. elon musk having such a unique position that he has been able to get all of this in intellect and access to a.i. and great crew of folks to be able to help him, i mean that's doing great work for our country. i think being on the other side of this issue is democraticly going to be disastrous for those opposing it. >> harris: quickly, there is talk about gaining access to private records of citizens through the i.r.s. the i.r.s. in recent history under democrats has been accused of targeting conservatives. i think people might be okay with information being handed to elon musk and his team. legally where do you stand? >> people in the i.r.s. and throughout government who have access to sensitive and private

information. they need it in order to execute their functions. we want to keep that group of limited and trusted circle of folks. the problem is those opposing this want just their people being in control of it. that's the deep state and what people are talking about when they talk about the bureaucratic deep state. i think it is very important for president trump to put people in those positions that he trusts, that he has vetted and that will do good things for our country. >> harris: hearing the former federal prosecutor use the words deep state, that's really fascinating. what you are talking about is those immovable factions of government that stay. >> bureaucratic state. the people who think they operate outside of the tri cam rail systems. they have to bring definitions to words like deep state that make sense and explain what a lot of people on the right are talking about whether they use that word. they talk about people acting outside of the president's authority or outside of congress

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>> harris: this was big story on inauguration day, january 20th. and now some movement. maryland state police have arrested two alleged members of a cult that is linked to the killing of a u.s. border patrol agent. agent was killed in vermont on january 20th. and his death is linked to a vegan cult connected to five other killings across vermont, pennsylvania, and california. we should say the two suspects that were arrested were charged with weapons possession and

other things. not related to this border patrol's death. the cult they are said to be part of and the man on the side of the screen, by the way, is alleged to be that cult's leader, all of this is under investigation. they picked up two people today on that u.s. border patrol killing investigation. dangerous floodwaters continue to affect areas of kentucky and tennessee. now freezing temperatures are threatening to make matters worse. democrat governor of kentucky andy beshear. >> the weather conditions are as dangerous as that water is. this is a snowstorm in the middle of a natural disaster. if you cannot safely power your home by the middle of today, you need to be looking at a shelter option. >> harris: a snowstorm in the middle of a disaster. jonathan serrie, senior correspondent in tennessee.

>> we're in rives, tennessee now. as you can see behind me even though the floodwaters are slowly going down they are pretty high. emergency managers are warning about the winter storm making it difficult for people recovering after last weekend's flooding. take a look at our live aerial shot from our fox flight team drone flying over clarksville, tennessee, about 100 miles to the east of where i am in rives. one of the locations where governor bill lee is going to be surveying storm damage. he will be meeting with storm survivors and local officials. meanwhile in neighboring kentucky, governor andy beshear the urging residents to prepare for black ice and snow making driving conditions treacherous in wake of the floods. he confirmed 11 deaths in his state and west virginia that experienced flooding are reporting one death as a result

of the storm that came through here last weekend. as floodwaters slowly recede in rives, tennessee, some residents are getting their electricity restored and returning to their homes and harris, emergency officials are urging them before they begin the cleanup, to document the damage taking pictures, videos and recording where the high watermark was left on their homes, harris. >> harris: wow. what have you heard about the shelters? do they prepare to shelter these people who may not have heat tonight? >> yeah, they are indeed. they've opened up all of the state parks, they've opened up their accommodations, various lodges and stuff that would be used by park goers. there are plenty of warm places. also a lot of neighbors helping neighbors. a lot of people in these areas have family to go to. worst case scenario, if you don't have family or friends to go to, there are public spaces that the state is opening up. >> harris: jonathan serrie,

thank you so much. democrats are going after president trump for his focus on cultural issues during the first few weeks of his administration. some in the democratic party are suggesting those are actually the issues that the party lost on. here is virginia senator mark warner. >> i think the democrats brand is really bad. i think this was an election based on culture. the democrats kind of failure to connect on a cultural basis with a wide swath of americans is hugely problematic. until you have a cultural connection people won't listen to you on your issues. >> harris: a new poll finds 45% of americans want the democrat party to become more moderate. james carville has this message for dems pushing back on the trump administration. >> the question is how should democratic politicians respond to this? and what i think they should do is what we call in rural america

play possum. just let it go, don't get in the way of it. as we like to say, don't just stand there, do nothing. let this germinate. we don't need to get in front of it. this freight train is moving. >> harris: power panel in "focus" now. caroline, nation -- and that is tough advice. play dead in the road. don't do anything. james carville likening you you guys to possums on the left side of the aisle. >> i'm from rural america so i get it. there are a lot of dead possums on the road. we have to be careful. >> harris: you don't want to be either one of those. >> i agree. look, the culture issues are important. i think democrats tend to downplay them. i was at a retreat last weekend with a bunch of party insiders and their solution was to stop

talking about cultural issues all together. i was waving my arms saying no, we need to talk about them. democrats want to focus on kitchen table issues. you can't get there if they won't let you in the front door. cultural issues are important. that's the disconnect in the party. we have to do a better job of listening. >> harris: this is plain common sense. if they didn't know in november how do they know now? it's not that much time to relearn everything that you believe or don't believe about culture. carville and democratic michigan senator slotkin criticized the party for treating all minorities the same. next level. >> i think it's racist to say well, filipinos are the same as hondurans and the same as nigerians are the same as and oh indonesiaance is absurd.

they just keep using this language and i think they are too naive to know how stupid it is. >> the data will show you that it's just not accurate. a state like michigan is a giant mixing bowl on political preferences. if you think that you understand a community because of their country of origin, you are just -- you haven't run in a swing state. >> harris: oh my goodness. like learning the alphabet for democrats, caroline. what's going on? >> i think they failed to understand, harris, that minorities are not a monolith. they are a group of very diverse interests. we saw that with african-american men and how they flocked to trump because they do very much care about the economy and the stability of their communities and making sure that they can afford life in america. i think that is the fatal error of democrats time and time again which is generalizing all of these individual demographics as one group. i also want to add i don't think

democrats are accurate that trump hasn't prioritized the economy. he has fulfilled his campaign promises with executive order blitz both the economy and culture. while he is defining what a woman is, he is also cutting into federal regulations. he is also unleashing american energy independence to lower gas prices. so i don't think it's fair to say he is ignoring those issues. but i do think when it comes to inflation, it will take some time to reduce the damage of the last four years. >> harris: all right. we have had a lot of news this hour and i will have to let you both go. we're down to the wire now. i will bring you back. such a great conversation and debate. brad and caroline, thank you very much. thank you for watching "the faulkner focus." "outnumbered" after the break. o. zzzquil ultra helps you sleep better and longer when you need it most. its non-habit forming and powered by the makers of nyquil.

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