rives, tennessee, power has been restored to many residents before the storm arrived. a sewage pumping station was still off line. >> even if they can come back to their houses they aren't able to use their plumbing situation and bathroom facilities because the sewer is not working. it is really a sad situation. >> a sad situation but if there is any silver lining it is the heartwarming effect of neighbors helping neighbors. you are talking about people who have lost homes and property going out nonetheless to look for other people in need, bill. >> bill: thank you, jonathan. good to have you there today. important story. >> winning the election is the opportunity to fix the system. not fixing the system itself. an opportunity to fix the system and to restore the power of

democracy. >> dana: joint interview as president trump and elon musk open up with sean hannity defending the work of doge and peeling back the curtains on goals and partnership as they work to fix the system. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. still am. >> bill: yes, i am still william george. i'm bill hemmer. trump and musk outlining the administration's massive overhaul of the government as they push to carry out the president's goals of cutting waste and streamlining the bloated bureaucracies out of d.c. and they gave sean some remarkable insights. >> president trump: elon called me and said they're trying to drive us apart. i said absolutely. we have breaking news, donald trump has ceded control of the president to elon musk. president musk will be attending a cabinet meeting at 8:00. it is so obvious. i get 98% bad publicity. outside of you and your very

good friends it is the craziest thing. what i have learned, elon, people are smart. they get it. >> they do actually. we must be over the target or doing something right. they wouldn't be complaining so much if we weren't doing something useful. what we've seen here is the sort of thrashing of the bureaucracy as we try to restore democracy and the will of the people. >> how much do you believe elon you have identified in waste, fraud, abuse corruption now and how much do you anticipate you will. >> sure. well -- >> president trump: 1%. it is so massive. this is huge money. huge money. as good as they are they won't find some contract that was crooked as hell. there will be so much that isn't found. what is found i think he will find a trillion dollars. but i think it's a very small percentage compared to what it

is. social security won't be touched other than if there is fraud or something we'll find it and it be strengthed. medicaid and medicare, none of that stuff will be touched. >> nothing. >> if there are illegal migrants in the system we'll get them out of the system and all of that fraud. >> in order to save taxpayer money it comes down to two things. competence and caring. and when the president was shown the outrageous bill for the new air force one and then negotiated it down, if the president had not applied competence and caring the price would have been 50% higher. literally 50% higher. the president cared, the president was competent. the price was not 50% hiring. >> president trump: it's caring. he uses words it's caring. it is a certain confidence but i think it is more caring. >> if you add either competence or caring, you will get a better

outcome. the problem is the american taxpayer has been getting a terrible deal. look at the last administration. can anyreasonable person say the last administration was either competent or caring? >> dana: let's get your reaction to a lot of that interview last night, tray gowdy. >> i don't understand -- lawyers are trained to try to understand the other side of the argument. what is the argument for perpetuating fraud, sending social security benefits to someone dead for ten years? i don't know the argument in favor of that. i know this. we have created a fourth branch of government. administrative branch. that's all the left controls. they don't have the house or the supreme court or have congress. so all they have is this administrative branch and it's what they are clinging to. but i defy anyone to tell me

identifying waste, fraud, abuse, duplication, how is that a bad thing? >> bill: play the sound bite number one here. whether or not a conflict of interest given the fact musk is involved in so many aspects of life here in america and around the world. >> i haven't asked the president for anything ever. in terms of how will you handle it? >> president trump: you won't be involved. >> i'll recuse myself if it. >> president trump: if there is a conflict he won't be involved. >> i am getting a daily examination here. i won't be getting away with something in the dead of night. >> bill: ceo of pal entire and he said this is the perfect time to do this because of artificial intelligence, because of the large language models, because we can now have computers talk to each other. so you can do this with great efficiency in a way that has

never been achievable in the history of the united states or any country for that matter. now is the time. >> contrast artificial intelligence with a story that you may have covered last week. the warehouse in pennsylvania where you have to take an elevator to get down and everything is in paper. federal retirees. if you want to retire, they have all of these employees going literally searching for pieces of paper. that is 1950s kind of stuff. so yes, you have one of the smartest people in the world who happens to be rich. so i get a little bit of a chuckle out of the notion that elon musk is going to have some monetary conflict of interest. i would argue this is probably taking away from his net wealth because he is doing something that is not profitable. so let's give him a chance but let's also not -- the president was pretty clear, entitlements are not on the table.

so even if you are successful at eliminating all the waste, fraud, abuse and duplication, that's a separate conversation from balancing the budget. if you don't take on mandatory spending you won't fully eliminate the deficit. >> dana: we'll see how they figure that out. house and senate trying to tussle with each other over it now. yesterday a judge in d.c. basically gave president trump a win against some democrats trying to stop doge saying that in these circumstances it must be indisputable that this court acts within the bounds of its authority and cannot issue a temporary restraining order without clear evidence of im meant and harm to the plaintiffs. the current record does not meet that standard. a lot of lawsuits flying around. how do you help people understand what they are? >> the best example i can give them let's assume there is a national championship high school basketball game tomorrow

night. and some ruling body says a player is not eligible. that's an emergency. you have to go to a court for a temporary restraining order or an injunction. it is not like a normal trial where it request be months or years in the future. what they are doing now, this judge, i don't get to say this very often but she was correct. if there is no immediate harm, if monetary damages can take care of it later on, there is no need to act immediately. these are temporary emergency injunctions. that is not the way our system usually works. it is a high standard to meet that. the fact that a non-trump loving judge said you didn't meet the standard should be pretty clear for everyone no matter what your political orthodoxy, that they aren't going to prevail on this lawsuit. some they will. some they will not. but it is a high standard to enjoin someone from doing something. >> bill: look at gowdy praising a judge. save the recording.

play it back in a year. trey, nice to see you. thank you for coming on. talk to you soon. all right, musk and doge setting sights on social security. the social security administration, ssa raising questions over mismanagement and signs of potential fraud. >> social security has a dead people problem and doge is trying to fix it. inspector general in 2023 found that the social security administration did not have a death date for 18.9 million people born before 1920. the social security administration says almost none of these 18 million dead people still alive in the database are getting benefits but the inspector general says because social security has not identified them as dead, other agencies who rely on their death master file could be making wrong payments to these people. one agency that relies on the death data is treasury.

improper payments across agencies is a huge problem. government accountability office says in 2023 there were more than $236 billion in improper payments made to people, including people that are dead. >> president trump: when i saw the social security numbers i said wow, that's really something. so let's go above 100 years old we have millions and millions of people over 100 years old. everybody knows that's not so. how many of them were getting paid social security? if that's the case it's a massive fraud. >> democrats aren't cheering the changes. instead they fear that fraud hunters at doge might leak your personal information. >> there were thousands of people and seniors came up to me and just said point blank ron, what in hell is going on back there with social security? if you have one of these 22-year-olds mishandle the social security information and

gets out it will be the mother of all identity thefts. >> there is a chance that taxpayers could see some of these savings. elon musk says he wants to talk to president trump about a potential doge dividend which would give taxpayers a check from some of the savings that doge has found. bill. >> bill: that would be a story. we would put that paycheck on the air. thank you, nice to see you live on the hill. hillary vaughn. >> zionists every day are stealing palestinian land. [screaming and horns honking] >> dana: terrible. anti-israel protest exploding into violence in new york city. we'll tell you how local leaders are reacting. >> bill: president trump suggesting ukraine should held elections as part of a peace deal. that has drawn pushback from some republicans. robert o'brien will react on that and more coming up. >> dana: right now on capitol hill a confirmation hearing is

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[shouting] >> dana: there is an anti-israel protest erupting in new york city. activists chanting anti-semitic chants in an orthodox jewish city. >> a pro-palestinian group held an anti-israel protest in the middle of one of the world's orthodox jewish neighborhoods.

that didn't go over well. the police tried to separate the groups. multiple physical scuffles and near brawls. anti-israel protestors shouting settlers go back home and zionists go to hell. there is only one solution, intifada revolution. protestors shout back trump owns gaza and terrorists get out of here. the group pal-awda was protesting the sale of stolen palestinian land, they say. nypd says there was at least one arrest, a man charged with assault for punching someone. we don't know who punched who. the victim is a 61-year-old man treated by ems. look at this video. protestor alerting the nypd to a knife at the rally. police tried to clear the scene and found a sizeable knife on the ground. new york democratic congressman ritchie torres posted on x it should come as a shock to no one the pro-hamas mob targeting jews

and promising to flood borough park has descended into violence. it is not a bug but a feature of the free palestinian movement. the anti-israel protest took place hours after hamas said the bibas family, the mother and two boys, are dead. the group end jew hatred is calling on president trump's justice department to investigate and prosecute the activist group from last night from depriving jews of their civil rights. >> dana: thanks for the update. >> thank you for -- [inaudible] >> bill: potential summit with vladimir putin by the end of the month. a step at a time here now. president trump holding out the possibility of meeting with him to end the war in ukraine.

former special envoy for hostage affairs and thank you for coming back to the program. a couple things here. what is president is pushing for at least initially appears to be an election in ukraine. how it went yesterday with our jackui heinrich. >> we're hearing that russia wants to force ukraine to hold new elections in order to sign any kind of peace deal. is that something that u.s. would ever support? >> president trump: well, we have a situation where we haven't had elections in ukraine. where we have marshall law in ukraine. where the leader in ukraine -- i hate to say it. down to 4% approval rating. a country blown to smithereens. >> bill: martial law affording to ukrainian constitution you can't hold a vote. the war still rages. what is the strategy after the

time you spent with donald trump and the white house and is he trying to smoke out vladimir putin? jack keane told us on monday that you have to meet with him first to determine whether or not you think he is serious. how do you see this? >> well, the first thing i would say, bill, not shocking we want elections in ukraine. ukraine is being told it's fighting for its democracy. they hold elections. i think about the end of world war ii and big three leaders at potsdam. while they were negotiating church ill was voted out of office and stalin and truman couldn't believe it and there was a new leader representing a new government. elections are a good thing as far as they are safe and free. don't ever bet against donald trump in international

negotiator. look and greenland. says we'll take greenland. today the danes announced inthey are raising gdp defense. he has gotten greenland defended and danes are paying their fair share. when it comes to russia and vladimir putin first of all trump is the best negotiator and he will go toe-to-toe with putin any day. look at the team he has assembled. waltz, took over my old job. that guy is a former special forces operator. marco rubio, parents under the communist boot in cuba and by russians and cuban gestapo and kgb agents and steve witkoff, great real estate lawyer and developer. not a yale faculty team biden sent to do his negotiations.

these are hard men who will get a great deal for ukraine. they will stop the killing. >> bill: i want to move to the hostage in the middle east. get your reaction out of st. petersburg last hour. putin said a lot of things. diplomatic ties have been restored with the united states. said the meeting in saudi arabia viewed it as favorable talked about not just ukraine but a peace deal in the middle east, syria, gaza, future for the palestinians. it seems to be all tied together. "wall street journal" editorial board with a bit of a caution here i would say. the rapid rehab of putin, russian a has become a peacemaker in a month. >> putin is a thug. president trump knows that. he hasn't been deceived by him. putin is not a peacemaker but may have to make peace. his economy is in shambles. the world is on fire. the one person to force him to

make peace is donald trump. you don't want to demonize him but try to save ukrainian lives and stop the killing. no rehabilitation of putin. donald trump is a guy who can make this deal happen. >> bill: let's talk about the middle east. really tough news tomorrow. four bodies that will be returned out of gaza. that's the schedule anyway, four bodies on thursday, then six living hostages on saturday. and then there is a report that four additional bodies will be released next week. i think that will get us down below 60, maybe just north of 50 still in gaza. what then? >> it's heartbreaking. the man lost his wife and two sons. beautiful family. they were ripped out of a place, a beautiful place and went to

pay my respects last year. the most beautiful place, a garden spot. i hope when the bodies come home we remember golden, a young idf soldiers who ten years ago they took. they refused to return his body. we need to get his body home and all these remains home so if they were murdered they can rest in peace in israel and families can have some closure. i don't know how they get through the trauma losing his wife and two sons. heartbreaking. if anyone had any -- i looked at that anti-israel protest in brooklyn. how despicable and terrible that they did that the night that we found out this beautiful family was murdered by hamas. if you have any question about the character of hamas, today

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>> bill: moments ago the united states saying tren de aragua and

other cartels are terrorist organizations. president trump is cracking down. from los angeles william la jeunesse is on the story. what do you have? >> good morning, bill. this is a big deal. never before in 27 years and 90 terrorist designations has the u.s. labeled a drug trafficking group a terrorist organization. also in mexico the administration is expanding the use of c.i.a. drones to identify fentanyl labs and u.s. special forces arrived on monday to train an elite assault team of mexican marines. it opens a whole new tool box to stop drug smuggling treating these gangs, ms-13 and tren de aragua as well as sinaloa and five other cartels not as criminal organizations but national security threats. >> sinaloa cartel is designated as a narco terrorist organization equal to al qaeda

or isis allowing the c.i.a. to initiate their own mitigation efforts against those organizations, against their transportation networks, could be against that your money laundering aspects. >> the order allows federal terrorism charges against anyone who enables cartel operations, smugglers, dealers, bankers adding years to any sentence. >> not only can they be prosecuted for drug charges but prosecuted for terrorism charges. >> right now traffickings across the united states and mexico what does it mean for distribution networks in the united states? will the u.s. government come after us as terrorist supporters? >> another question is how will cartels respond? sources i spoke with expect retaliation. potentially targeting mexican judges and prosecutors. more corruption, bribes and efforts to infiltrate law enforcement an both sides of the border. now it is up to the administration what tools they choose to use, mexico says there

will be no direct u.s. military actions there against the cartels without their consent. back to you. >> bill: we'll watch that. really intriguing developments there. thanks, william la jeunesse in l.a. >> i guess we must be over the target or doing something right. they wouldn't be complaining so much if we weren't doing something useful. funny how when these attacks occur the thing they are accusing the administration of is what they are guilty of. they are saying things are unconstitutional. what they are doing is unconstitutional. they are guilty of the crime of which they accuse us. >> president trump: it's always the first thing they do. he is in violation of the constitution. they don't know what they are talking about. it's a con job, a big con job. >> dana: president trump and elon musk fending off democratic criticism. congressman ro khanna. a democrat from california. new interview, silicon valley

says the left used to love me. what happened? how do you describe that? especially as other tech moguls -- are starting to look at donald trump? >> for a long time i praised tesla, i praised spacex and said elon stick to cars and mars. the challenge is that there are things he can do at the executive branch in their discretion. tell the agencies to eliminate the contracts to "politico", bloomberg or "washington post." renegotiate real estate deals. but what they can't do is cut agencies, cut things that congress has specifically authorized and appropriated and what we've said is come to congress for things that are in congress's jurisdiction. >> dana: yesterday judge in washington decleaned to offer a temporary restraining order to 14 state attorneys general trying to do just that. >> well, there have been other judges, judges who ruled that

they can't pause payments. ultimately this is going to go to the supreme court. to me it's common sense. there are things that congress specify when we pass laws. we say there has to be a usaid, funding for title i schools in working class neighborhoods. other things we just appropriate the money. things where we don't specify, you have a lot of executive discretion. if you are cutting wasteful contracts, fine. but in things that congress specifies you have to come to congress and i don't know why they wouldn't do that. >> dana: okay. you just used a phrase common sense. something that president trump has been using a lot as well. here is from the fox news voter analysis saying basically the vogters said we want change. they want substantial change and 27% actually said complete and total upheaval is what they were looking for. i wonder about how you as somebody who wants the democratic party to do better

and wrote an op-ed for fox news saying democrats must make the case government can be effective and good. how can you do that if the main opposition and the visual of it are democrats in the cold singing outside of federal agencies? >> i don't like that visual. people can protest. i don't think that's the most effective. i think first of all we lost the election because we became the party of the status quo. people are upset in this country and they are right to be upset. jobs were off shored, industries hollowed out. china is winning in so many of these new industries and the income gap has increased in the united states. we need to acknowledge that. then we need to get outside of d.c. into the heartland and different parts of the country and share our vision how to help bring communities up and create economic success and that would be much more effective and then

talk about what -- why people still need certain government services like funding for schools, funding for social security, funding for medicare. >> dana: they were very explicit last night saying social security and medicare and medicaid president trump said will be roped off. nothing will happen to those funds. let me ask you one last question. do you think the democratic party is fixable at this point? >> absolutely. look, if you had asked someone in 2021 would donald trump a week after january 6th became president of the united states in 2024, i don't think even many of your viewers would have said yes that's going to happen. i know kevin mccarthy didn't think it would happen. we can't come back if we offer the same old status quo but if we have a vision recognizing a lot of things have gone wrong for working and middle class americans and a positive vision about what we'll do for their economic success and their community's economic success.

>> dana: thank you for coming on "america's newsroom." >> bill: the future of new york's democratic mayor eric adams hangs in the balance as the democratic governor meets with city leaders ahead of a key court hearing today. vogted in by the people. will the governor 86 his job? big question. taking on the feds out of the classroom. how president trump is looking to improve education. >> president trump: school choice is important. that will get taken care of automatically. we want to bring education back to the states. ♪take me home♪ ♪to the place♪ ♪i belong!♪ ♪west virginia,♪ ♪mountain mama,♪ ♪take me home♪

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>> dana: the ncaa facing scrutiny over its new gender eligibility politics that critics say has potential

loopholes that could allow biological males to compete in women's sports. what is going on? garrett tenney live in chicago with more. >> dana, hours after president trump signed his executive order to keep biological men out of women's sports the ncaa new policy athletes male at birth could not play on women's teams. now some argue when you look into the details this policy isn't all it's made out to be. one of their biggest concerns is the ncaa new standard for dirge an athlete's gender is their birth record. majority of states allow you to change the gender on your birth certificate and a lot of states will issue an amended birth certificate. some issue a new birth certificate. the gender change never happened. the ncaa is pushing back on those concerns telling us the policy is clear. no waivers are available and student athletes assigned male at birth may not compete on a

women's team with amended birth certificates or other forms of i.d.. critics argue it has loopholes. in states like california where you can get a new birth certificate without any documentation from a medical professional confirming you have had any kind of surgery or hormone therapy to transition genders. a former u.s. champion says the ncaa policy is no policy at all. holes upon holes and they want to appear to satisfy the executive order while alouing the gender ideologues to have their way and validate their cookie identities. ncaa is clear amended birth certificates aren't a work around we haven't gotten clarification how the organization would handle cases in states like california that issue all together new birth certificates. keep you updated if we hear

back. >> dana: thank you, garrett tenney. >> the governor said to me she will see what the judge decides tomorrow and keep deliberating with other leaders. my feeling is that the fate of the city and people have been shaken and there needs to be a resolve. at the same time we must protect the law and not establish a precedent that could come back to haunt us. >> bill: he was at the meeting. sharpton was at the meeting. some wonder why. new yorkers who met with the governor, kathy hochul, about the future of the new york city mayor, democrat eric adams, the mayor will be in court this afternoon as a federal judge decides whether to drop the criminal charges. martha maccallum with us now. "new york post" cover. governor hochul must have the courage to stand up to progressives.

the immigrant rights groups won't go easy. they will be very loud on this for as long as it lasts. >> i'm having a hard time understanding what's going on here. first of all, he was indicted. he has not been convicted of anything. i'm not sure how you remove a sitting mayor in an unprecedented maneuver when there was an indictment. there has been no trial in this case. now the d.o.j. said they want to drop it. judge called in both sides today at 2:00 this afternoon and they will weigh in on this. the idea that governor hochul brought in advisors, including al sharpton. no idea what he was doing there. when he said we haven't decided what we are going to do but we are going to wait until after the judge i am thinking we who? who elected al sharpton to decide whether or not the mayor should be removed. the mayor ran on safety first. he rode the subway to work on his first day of work to prove

and make the subways safe. none of this is new. he cleared the tent cities from downtown. he has said new york will stay a sanctuary city. welcoming well-meaning immigrants and still says that today. but criminal migrants just like all criminals he wants out of the city or behind bars. his stance really has not changed. this is up to the judge. this whole process needs to slow down and happen the way americans expect these things to happen. >> dana: on another topic president trump was asked about education, brought upped indication last night. something you care a lot about. >> president trump: i want to bring school back to the states. they have a list of 40 countries, we're 38, 39. the last time we were number 40 and what i say is you have to give -- it doesn't work. i tell you what we're number one in, cost p per pupil. we spend more money per pupil

than any other country. it doesn't work. we spend the most and have the worst result. >> dana: music to my ears. a president who cares about this. the nation's report card. you know it well. >> our viewers know these numbers well also. i go back to the last administration and the first lady who was a teacher who sided with the unions over and over again while students fell further and further behind, especially during covid. this was well established before covid that the country was sliding behind. there have been some positive moves and president trump is right that this money should go back to the states. let them be more responsible and more in charge of where the money goes. the department of education largely -- some of this money has been cut. they were big on d.e.i. programs and big on hiring consultants and paying millions of dollars to come up with ideas that then get pushed to the state and to the local level and they say we want to make sure you teach this program and that program and make sure you give them this

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happens. democrats are already upset. democrats still try to figure out how to block trump's plans. >> dana: president trump and elon musk say it is time to bring home the astronauts strand stranded in space for months after what was supposed to be a week-long mission and now they are working to do just that. >> on the president's request, instruction. we're accelerating the return of the astronauts. >> president trump: they got left in space. they were supposed to be there eight days, almost 300. >> they were left up for political reasons. which isn't good. >> do you think it will be successful? >> we have brought astronauts back from space station many times before and always with success. so as long as we aren't

complacent. >> president trump: when will you launch >> about four weeks to bring them up. >> dana: they blasted off last june but still up there because of technical issues with their spacecraft. >> bill: let's go. bring them home. right now the senate health committee holding a confirmation hearing for lori chavez-deremer, the pick for labor secretary. her past support of unions drawing questions from republicans. chad pergram is on the hill. >> good morning, bill. she got three sets of questions directly about her support for something called the pro-act that allows workers to organize in some right to work states. rand paul, republican senator from kentucky indicated he was opposed to her. i just talked to him in the hall a couple of minutes ago and he said based on her answers she kind of dialed that back a little bit and he might be open to reconsidering his position.

mullen, the republican senator from oklahoma says he thinks there will be some nos and several democrats will vote for her. a different bird when it goes to the senate floor. later today senate is set to confirm kelly loeffler, the former republican senator from georgia as the administrator of the small business administration at noon today. she will probably get bipartisan support. 18 nominees moved across the senate floor. 13 with bipartisan support and somebody who won't have bipartisan support will be kash patel up for f.b.i. director. they'll break the filibuster on him tomorrow and vote to confirm him stimulates in the day on thursday. >> bill: how many more after 18? >> well, there are really several hundred nominees. i was looking yesterday as to when they go to move, confirmations for ambassadors and things it takes a while. >> bill: i was talking about the

main principles. it is about the math, right? we have to hit you with the math. >> i've heard that. >> bill: talk to you later, thank you. before we go now, we have a horse with an ear for music. his name is upea. i like your version. he loves playing the guitar. strumming the strings with his muzzle. lives on a nonprofit horse rescue farm in southern california. show us the horse. >> dana: i love that. he looks like a palomino maybe. >> bill: that's a tongue playing the strings. good shot. >> dana: announced i wish someone had told me my new book available now for pre-order. fox news books.com. great for a graduate or staffers trying to figure out what they are doing with their life. harris is next. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert