scott. when president trump spoke at cpac this time last year he was not yet the official nominee saying this about his eventual predecessor. >> our country is being destroyed and the only thing standing between you and its obliteration is me. >> we can now confirm that president trump will be closing out this conference with remarks on saturday. he first made remarks at cpac in 2011. saturday it will be his 13th time. >> bill: a lot to watch and we shall wait for the vice president. when it happens we'll take it live. nice to see you there at cpac. >> dana: fox news alert for you here. trump administration pulls out another sledgehammer cracking down on illegal immigration. he signed an executive order to ban federal taxpayer funding of benefits for illegal immigrants. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana

perino. >> bill: good morning on thursday. bill hemmer. president trump directing his administration to identify all federally funded programs currently providing any financial benefits to illegal immigrants. he is ordering government officials to make certain that federal payments are not used to subsidize or promote illegal immigration or to support sanctuary policies that try to shield criminal aliens from apprehension with the possibility of deportation. >> dana: the latest is a series of actions taken by an administration that has made securing the border and cracking down on illegal immigration a top priority. >> president trump: first and most urgent mission is to remove the criminals that biden allowed into our country with the ridiculous and very dangerous open borders policy. they came from all over the world. we're getting them out. in record levels just like they came in in record levels. >> dana: griff jenkins with more in washington. hi, griff. >> good morning. this order is a big deal because

for years, dana, officials have said free stuff like federally funded benefits are a big incentive for illegal immigration. it directs every department and agency to cut out the programs to those illegal arguments. over the next ten years they estimate the current cost to taxpayers, 50 billion for obamacare, 40 billion for medicaid, 15 billion for food stamps and list goes on. all that likely to end. the federation for american immigration reform calculates taxpayers already spend over $180 billion annually to house, clothe, feed, transport and support illegal immigrants. the manhattan institute says every new illegal immigrants costs taxpayers $130,000. this order seeks to cut off funds to those sanctuary cities in states and mandates

improvements in welfare eligibility verification. this one is important. if you recall back in 1996 when president clinton signed a law to end welfare abuse it barred illegal immigrants from receiving a wide range of benefits. under the biden administration, if they got paroled into the u.s. they became qualified aliens and eligible for en bits. that will likely end as well. the administration designated the latin american cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and that includes tren de aragua and ms-13. >> dana: they're coming at them on all sides. former speaker of the house kevin mccarthy will join us next. great to have you. one of the things is that american taxpayers how did this happen in the first place? >> exactly the question. you have watched, why are we giving incentives for illegal behavior? the other thing to look at when you get the liberal governors like gavin newsom. when he does this in california it costs the federal taxpayer

and not just the california taxpayer. this is just another promise being kept by president trump that he said he would crack down on this and it is also a way we could save and look at america first. make the investment in america with americans. >> bill: kristi noem, dhs last night said this about the illegals. >> the people could see because it was changing in their communities around them and we watched families lose their children. they saw children that were trafficked, drugs killing our generation of kids. it was all happening because of that open border. we have a president that puts america first and secured the border and allowing us to deport people in record numbers and we're deporting dangerous criminals. we are getting them out of the country. every day we save lives because of the work we're doing. >> bill: i don't know if you can see the graphic. viewers at home it spiked for the 3 1/2 years we could argue and then the beginning of december because the biden administration started to crack

down it went lower. the lowest bar is far right of your screen. there is talk now of mexican cooperation at a level that we haven't seen in years. this is a far left president in mexico. she is suggesting some of it is not true but some of it is about the u.s. military helping mexican authorities, drone flights trying to search for these fentanyl labs on behalf of the cartels. how much of a difference could that make if that relationship is fortified? >> it will stop it all. i will tell you we have to think about this. remember what president biden said. he said he needed legislation. there was no legislation that passed take destroyed our border. it was just a president. the new president, president trump is stopping it. he is also building the relationships with mexico that should have been done from the last administration, from the last vice president, and remember this. fentanyl is the number one killer of americans between the

ages of 18 and 45. those are the years that you reproduce, the years that are most productive and the years and age to sign up to serve in our military. fundamentally destroys the fiber of america if that's allowed to go on. it starts in china, comes from mexico into america. you watch president trump go after china, canada and mexico at the very beginning. you are seeing the ramifications of that dropping more than 95% of the illegal crossings. he is not done yet. he is also building respect from the other leaders and they are cracking down and doing the job they should have done years ago. >> dana: kevin, jd vance the vice president will give remarks at cpac and he will talk about just this whirlwind of the last four weeks that has been the trump administration. yesterday a gallup poll showed a total of 53% of republicans say they approved of congress. that's higher than at any time since august of 2005.

that was a heck of a month as i recall. what can you do with an approval rating like that to push forward the agenda? >> you could actually move your agenda. congress is serving up the tail winds of president trump. another poll that now republicans outnumber democrats. we have moved up those who identify. we haven't seen that since back in the 2000s, unheard of. this means they should govern and pass the president's agenda. i think the senate has done a rock star job. you watch what the leader thune has done from all these confirmations. this is faster than any given time. because president trump was prepared. they are doing the budget reconciliation. they also have a march 14th deadline coming up for government funding that they left from last cycle. they also have to do the debt ceiling. getting that done will help you get the rest of the agenda through when you do for energy policy, follow up on making it law from the border policy and

really getting the economics of america stronger and our military. >> bill: thanks for coming on. >> dana: great to see you. a coast guard crew releasing new video after stopping a boat carrying 20 suspected illegal migrants off san diego. mexican and chinese nationals were on board. coast guard handed the migrants off to customs and border patrol. >> bill: democrats stoking fears and condemning faa layoffs after several midair disasters in the last month. a back drop for a senate hearing on bradbury's nomination for

vice secretary. >> 40,000 people killed in car crashes but the skies have worried some people with two crashes and a midair collision over arizona yesterday. delta airlines jet flipped over monday in toronto. nobody killed. some are blaming personnel cuts by the faa for the spate of crashes. delta said those cuts are not to blame. >> the cuts do not affect us, gail. i have been in close communication with the secretary of transportation. i understand that the cuts at this time are something that are raising questions but the reality is there is over 50,000 people that work at the faa and the cuts i understand were 300 people in non-critical safety functions. >> democratic congressman swalwell declared president trump has had more planes crash in his first month in office

than any other u.s. president. swalwell's claim appears to be false. according to data there have been five fatal aviation mishops from trump took office and ten for biden. it didn't stop swalwell from saying trump is president. president trump is in charge of air safety. all crashes are trump's fault. new poll from the associated press shows 64% of adults think flying is very or somewhat safe. 17% think it is very or somewhat unsafe. roughly the same poll results were found when people asked how safe they felt while walking or riding in a car, bill. >> bill: there you have it. i'm still flying. i think you are, too, even as a navy man. nice to see you. >> absolutely disgusting what hamas has done to the israeli people. their attacks. i stand with president trump. i think netanyahu needs to be firmer with them.

now he whats the true backing of the united states. >> dana: the sheer brutality of hamas and horrifying display. they released the bodies of four israeli hostages, including a mother and her young sons. >> bill: passing the buck democratic mayor of l.a. has an explanation, a new one, too, i think, why she was out of the country when her city started to burn. >> it didn't reach that level to me to say something terrible could happen and maybe you shouldn't have gone on the trip. but to me. >> why? >> it's one of the things we need to look at. i don't know.

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>> dana: a nation in mourning. idf holding a solemn ceremony after receiving the bodies of four israeli hostages.

among those murdered were a mother, young son and toddler from one family. the youngest hostage taken when he was just nine months old. joining us now is governor mike huckabee, the nominee to be the u.s. ambassador to israel. let's hope that gets done soon. want to get you to react to the president of jerusalem who posted this. agony, pain, no words. our hearts, the hearts of an entire nation lie in tatters. on behalf of the state of israel i ask for forgiveness for not protecting you on that terrible day, forgiveness for not bringing you home safely. may their memory be a blessing. governor. >> beautiful words, eloquent and from the heart. i think he shares what all of us feel, just heartbreak for this family who had to wait over 500 days to know the disposition of their loved ones.

when they find out their bodies come home in coffins locked by hamas and they handed keys to the red cross but the keys did not fit the coffins. it is just another insult to injury. then parading these coffins through a large crowd of cheering people was just another insult to injury. these people have no bounds of decency, none whatsoever. hamas has really demonstrated in every single day why they cannot remain in any part of control not just of gaza but anywhere. they just are savages. >> dana: when you are confirmed as ambassador you'll dig into issues of phase two of the cease-fire. steve witkoff, watch. >> these two includes 19idf soldiers. we believe there are live and others as well. includes alexander who we've been pressing for.

he is an american and israeli citizen as well. it is a little more intricate and complicated in terms of how we bring the two sides together on this. because phase two contemplates an end of the war but it also contemplates hamas not being involved in the government and being gone from gaza. >> dana: one of the things that you would do once there would be to help implement phase two but look at the broader region. what can you say about that? >> the point of optimism is that president trump's vision for the middle east is one that has real hope. he saw through the abraham accords in his first term. he was there for a second term we would have seen it expanded. i believe with the disruption of things in syria, collapse of hezbollah in lebanon, there is a realignment going on in the middle east. when the king of jordan sat down with president trump at the white house for the first time

said we will receive some of the palestinians into jordan. that was a breakthrough. we see things happen that we didn't see for years. there is an opportunity, dana, to see an extraordinary historic realignment. the one factor that has to be dealt with and we talk about hamas or hezbollah, but really it goes back to iran. they are the ones who fund this stuff. the president's maximum pressure on iran, which was working in his first term, bankrupted them, is working now yet again and it is the most important thing that has to take place for the rest of the pieces to fall. i believe it will. the president understand that you don't have to bomb iran, you need to bankrupt them. that takes away their capacity to fund these murderous, savage, uncivilized barbarians who murder innocent babies, women and children. it is just something that cannot ever be allowed to happen again. >> dana: it echoes something

that netanyahu the prime minister of israel said earlier. listen here. >> all of the world's hearts should be torn. this demonstrates who we're dealing with, what we are dealing with, such monsters. we're grieving and in pain but we are also determined to insure that such a thing never happens again. >> dana: that really is the the solemn obligation of the leadership there, sir. >> it has been to be that. they cannot simply say okay, we have the hostages back, we'll go back to business as usual. there can never be business as usual if that means hamas is existent at all. let's keep in mind it hasn't been very long ago, a few days that leaders of hamas have openly declared they want to see another october 7th. what we need to see is the end of hamas, the end of iranian military capacity, the end of hezbollah and the houthis and a peaceful middle east, which is what most of the people of the region, with the exception of

iran, deep down want. everyone benefits when there is a peaceful resolution. there is a possibility of that and i believe with president trump's leadership, we'll actually get there. i am optimistic for that. >> dana: keep us posted when you get the hearing date and we'll follow that closely. thank you for being on "america's newsroom." >> thank you, dana. great to see you. >> bill: a new chairman of the ftc and talking big about tech. edward lawrence is on that live from the white house today. edward. >> bill, the chairman of the federal trade commission believes the agency's mission to protect workers and facilitate business has gone off track over the past four years and wants to bring it back. following that executive order from president trump this week saying independent or semi independent agencies have to submit new regulations to the white house for approval that is something he will do. >> what you don't want is a big powerful agency making decisions

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host is interviewing jd vance. the 31st day of president trump's second term. let's drop in and take a pick. >> why are we spending money on progressive modern art projects centered around toilets in afghanistan? that's actually something that your tax dollars were funding until very recently. i think all of us are asking what the hell have we been doing with the american people's money? let's turn off the spigot and spend the tax money on the american people's priority. that's a big focus in the administration, too. >> let's dig deeper into the immigration issue. we've seen and you've met many of the victims, people who have family members who have died tragically murdered, those angel families, in the hands of these criminal illegal aliens. what is your message to these families? and then what is your message to

these horrific drug cartels and human traffickers who have preyed on the most vulnerable in the world? >> our message to the drug traffickers is get the hell out of our country. your free ride is over. president trump is back in the oval office. that is -- [applause] you are not welcome. you were never welcome according to the american people. unfortunately you had president joe biden who allowed you to run free over the united states of america and donald trump has said you're terrorist organizations and we'll wage war on you and out of the united states of america and that's an important message. of course. our message -- you know this, our message to the families is president trump cares about you, he thinks it is disgraceful what your own government let happen to your children, to your grandchildren and it whats to stop.

of course, we mourn with people and pray for people but also asking as their government why did this happen to your child in the first place? the answer is that under joe biden your government didn't do its job. under donald trump it is. thank god for that. [applause] >> on the economy. i get this question all the time. this question of affordability. a lot of stress on our families, something that i think joe biden could not manage in terms of really helping lower that cost of living and making things simply more affordable. we talked about energy independence being a critical component of this, of insuring that we unleash this economic prosperity. what more needs to be done? >> yeah, so one of the first interviews i did was -- i think it was six or seven days after the inauguration and somebody asked me it has been six days, what have you done to fix the inflation crisis created by jabbed? i'm like first of all it has been six days. we have done a lot in six days

but it will take some time to fix what joe biden broke over four years. we know it is easy, unfortunately, to burn the house down. it takes a little bit of time to build it back up. here is what we have to do because look, the fundamental goal of our immigration policy, of our border policy, of doge saving taxpayer money, the fundamental goal is we want your children and grandchildren to be able to raise a family in security and comfort in the country we all love. that's the whole goal of president trump's agenda. [applause] safety and prosperity, right? common sense stuff. we know that to do that we have to first of all unleash american energy. why is that so important? we all know grocery prices got too high under joe biden's leadership. one of the main drivers is energy.

farmers are paying more for energy. if truck drivers are paying more for fuel we're paying more for what the truck drivers are delivering to the grocery store. if we unleash american energy it will do more than anything to drive down the costs for the american people. the second thing mercedes is we've got to stop spending the american people's money on garbage. every dollar -- [applause] >> every dollar we take in and spend you have to pay for either through taxes or through inflation. if we spend the american people's money more wisely, stop taxing and spending the american people to death, that's also going to bring relief to all the pricing pressures out there. we'll make it affordable to live in this country again. that's our mandate and goal and you are right, there is a lot more we can do. we have a good start after 30 days. >> we got a pretty good start but -- [applause]

>> but we've got this big one bill budget areconciliation bil. what is the administration doing to insure that a lot of what the president is wanting to do in terms of really pushing forward with economic prosperity and tax relief initiative gets done? >> it's really important. the senate has its own approach and the president has been very clear his preference is to put everything in one bill. legislative strategy. the president learned a lot about how d.c. works and i talked to the president about this yesterday. he said it's rare you can get two reconciliation bills done in one congress, which is why he thinks we have to do a lot with that one big beautiful bill, the first reconciliation package we'll get through the house and senate. it is going well. it is early. this stuff takes time to put together. i think if you had a record pace

reconciliation bill we would get this thing done in may or june. i think we're on track to do that. we have to do basic things. we have to continue to unleash american energy. that's part of the reconciliation bill. we have to make sure other countries stop taking advantage of us. that's a big part of president trump's tariff policy is we have to stop being taken advantage of. [applause] of course we want to make president trump tax cuts permanent and extend them into the future. no taxes on tips. we have to do some of the things we talked about during the campaign. that has to be part of it. finally and really important. everything the president has done on the border we have got to empower him to do it not just for a month but for the next four years and we have to hire more border patrol agents. with he have to give tom homan and stephen miller and kristi noem the resources they need to secure the border. [applause]

not to return to the border but so many of our issues come back to the border. if you take 30, 40 million illegal aliens. you take medicare fraud, social security fraud. why are we taking the people's social security payments and giving it to illegal aliens? we know that's happening in the united states of america today. we've got to stop it. if you get control of the border, mercedes, you do more to control the fiscal problem, the financial problems we have. get illegal aliens out of our country and american tax dollars go to american people and how you solve the fiscal crisis in the united states of america. [applause] >> shifting to your incredible speech at the munich conference. did you watch that? [cheers and applause] i don't know, i think they really liked it. >> not everybody liked it.

you guys liked it, not everybody liked it. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. >> okay. >> i'll take a stand ovation for a speech i already gave. >> i was going to say. here is your speech. say it again. but it was -- it was fascinating because there was obviously some of these european leaders that were a little uptight about it and stressed them out a little bit but talk about the greatest threats in europe. >> yeah, look, the greatest threat in europe, and i would say it was the greatest threat in the united states until 30 days ago, is that you've had the

leaders of the west decide that they should send millions and millions of unvetted foreign migrants into their countries. that's the biggest threat to europe and frankly it remains, by the way, the biggest threat to the united states because yes, we have four years of president trump's leadership but i guarantee if the democrats ever get power again they will try to do it again. we cannot rebuild western civilization or rebuild the united states of america or europe by letting millions and millions of unvetted illegal migrants come into our country. it has to stop. thank god it stopped here but it has to stop there. [applause] and a related issue, mercedes, is you can't just stop it. you have to allow european peoples, and the american people, too, to raise issues about it. you have to allow free speech to

debate this stuff. you have to stop doing things to the populations of the world. you have to give the populations of the world the opportunity to speak up and say no more of this b.s. we want borders, we want sovereignty and want to be able to speak our own mind in our own country. i guarantee you, if we don't allow free speech. the biden administration did more to destroy free speech not just in the united states but also in europe than any administration in american history. i'm not even blaming the europeans. i'm actually saying you followed the lead of joe biden into censorship and mass migration. follow the lead of donald trump and that's free speech, borders and sovereignty. that's the future for our shared civilization. [cheers and applause] >> i will tell you something that is really truly remarkable

that's happening at cpac. we had our second cpac international summit yesterday and we have many of these european conservative european leaders with us today standing in solidarity because they have an opportunity to basically make europe great again. make asia great again, make late -latin america great again. what does this mean with the u.s. in giving that speech, what does it mean with the u.s.'s relationship with europe? >> obviously we'll continue to have important alliances with europe. i really do think the strength of those alliances is going to depend on whether we take our societies in the right direction. think about this. germany's entire defense is subsidized by the american taxpayer. there are thousands upon thousands of american troops in

germany today. do you think that the american taxpayer is going to stand for that if you get thrown in jail in germany for posting a mean tweet? of course they aren't. right? the point i tried to make to the european friends. they are our friends. i believe that. president trump does. that friendship is based on shared values. you do not have shared values if you are jailing people for saying we should close down our border. you don't have shared values if you cancel elections because you don't like the result and that happened in romania. you don't have -- you do not have shared values if you are so afraid of your own people that you silence them and shut them up. let's have shared values. let's defend democracy. let's have free expression, not just in the united states but all over the western world. that is the path to strong alliances in europe. [cheers and applause]

>> we had ambassador rick ridell with us yesterday. he has three, four or five jobs. let me ask you this. where are we on the status of the russia/ukraine moving forward in terms of these negotiations in bringing peace to this endless war? >> it is early and i think what president trump -- what makes him such an effective negotiator. i have oh he seen it if private. he doesn't take anything off the table. when he walks into a negotiation he says everything is on the table. it makes heads explode. why are you talking to russia? how do you end the war unless you talk to russia. you need to talk to everyone involved. i know the president wants to bring it to a close. the goals that animate president trump's policy. it is really simple. he wants the killing to stop.

he wants to bring lasting peace to europe. he doesn't just want to stop it now and have the war restart a month from now. he wants to bring lasting peace to europe because the president believes this and is absolutely right. peace is in the interest of russia, in the interest of ukraine, in the interest of europe. most importantly peace is in the interest of the american people and he will fight for it for the remainder of his administration wherever war breaks out he will be the president of peace. he, of course, is a very good negotiator, very good businessman. he recognizes that a lot of these issues are tough. it will take a smart statesman to figure this stuff out. we have that in the white house and i really believe we're on the cusp of peace in europe for the first time in three years because we have leadership from the oval office and we haven't had it for four years in this country. [applause] >> we mentioned this when we

started the conference. we're honored by the presence of two hostages that were freed after the hamas atrocity, tragedy that we've seen happen and we have several of the family members as well who -- there they are. their loved ones are still being detained by hamas. [applause] what is your message to these hostage families >> our message is that president trump loves you, he hasn't forgotten your loved ones and he will fight every day to bring them home. that's exactly what he has been doing and what he will keep on doing. [applause] i was actually talking with one of my best friends about this a couple of days ago. >> can i be your best friend, too? we all want to be your best friend, right?

okay. [applause] >> i was talking with him and he was asking me. he was like i don't understand why was biden unable to do this? and then the minute that donald trump won, we started to make progress and bring the hostages home? i said man, it is just a question of leadership. you actually need a president who is willing to pick up the phone and say you've got to bring these people home. no, no, no, we aren't focused on that crap right now. we're focused on bringing hostages home and then when the negotiations hit a wall, because they always do. you need a president who picks up the phone and says cut the crap out. we have to make progress and you keep the pace going. it is leadership. i saw it behind the scenes. what the president did is he empowered in particular -- this was before we were inaugurated and before we had our great secretary of state marco rubio or any of the great people

around us. >> bill: a lot of headlines. we'll make it affordable to live in america again. control the border, how you solve a fiscal crisis. more to do on inflation. illegal immigration is the greatest threat to europe. germany has a big election on sunday and talked about ukraine. the one question there came with an answer we're now on the cusp of peace because donald trump is in the white house. some headlines already there at cpac and watching him go. >> dana: watching with us was radio host and rich, you have a radio show. you take a lot of calls. it has been a month of president trump being in office. all of those things that bill just mentioned inflation, immigration. i didn't hear anything about crime. those two issues in particular are the ones you were getting calls before the election. what about now? >> everybody loves doge.

they love the cost savings and the newest thing now the president saying we may give you 20% of your money back. give us our money back. people love the idea in philly and jersey and across the country. let's get it back. i this i the reassurance to people social security and medicare won't be touched except fraud. that's what people want to hear to reassure them but love the idea we go after all the waste. casinos get money. the house always wins. enough is enough. people have had it and saying stop the waste. give us our money back. >> bill: there is a trip plan there that was used for covid dollars, las vegas. queue up the first sound bite. air force one last night. the talk about the dividend payments to the american taxpayer. watch this here.

>> president trump: i love it. 20% dividend so to speak for the money that we're saving by going after the waste, fraud, and abuse. >> how much money? >> president trump: could be a lot. 20%, give back a lot of money to the taxpayer and give an incentive for the taxpayer to go out and report things to us where we can save money. >> bill: i think we're a long way away from this. we have a ways to go. art laffer was on our show two days ago. you want to give people tax relief. cut the rates and right now that's not really part of the discussion. >> it is part of congress's discussion. the president has some asks when it comes to renewing the tax cuts and jobs act of 2017. congress will establish what the rates are. the president has already expressed his support for them. when it comes to giving $5 thousand something like that to the public, there is some debate whether or not it would be inflationary. maybe it is off set by the president's energy policies

which are cutting costs there. but most likely because inflation is what, too much money chasing after too few goods, the likelihood it will over contribute to an overheated economy. that's the biggest threat. across the board, they don't think he is focused on job one, getting consumer costs down. he is focused on a lot. perhaps too much to the degree the public thinks we want him to do the immigration stuff. that's also part of his mandate. job one was getting consumer costs down. people will like having more money in the wallets. the people who defend it it is only non-inflationary if they save it. >> dana: paying down the debt would be better to get tax rates. so much to talk about and incredible 31 days with president trump in office. thanks for watching that with us, guys. we'll have you back. the senate is set to vote on kash patel.

we'll take you to capitol hill next.

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>> as it stands today the senate has confirmed 18 cabinet or cabinet-level nominations for the trump administration. that will put us at the fastest rate in getting nominees through the senate confirmation process since 2001. >> dana: that was the senate majority leader. these are the 18 he is mentioning. a pretty good haul for the senate to be able to get this done for president trump to have the team in place that he wants. four pending here. u.n., labor, education and trade representative. just to take a look at this pace, i know it might seem like it has been a while. look at this. for obama, the blue number here, biden, the rate for trump has been the fastest that we have. the balance of power is still an issue, bill.

we're paying attention to this. republicans are sitting pretty good at 53-47 democrats and two of these democrats have decided they are not going to run for re-election. we're awaiting a procedural vote on kash patel. the pick to lead the f.b.i. full senate is expected to elect him on a party line vote. >> not much democrats can do to block the confirmation of kash patel as f.b.i. director. senate votes to crack a filibuster on his nomination shortly. the actual vote comes this afternoon. democrats rallied this morning at f.b.i. headquarters processing his likely confirmation. >> when left to his own devices, kash patel has proven himself to be a wildly vindictive partisan. when around donald trump, kash patel has been proved himself to

be a suck-up. >> expect most if not all republicans to support patel. zero democrats will vote for patel. >> these democrats are afraid that he will retaliate against whistleblowers like the biden administration did against f.b.i. and i.r.s. agents who blew the whistle. >> senate education committee votes today to send the nomination of linda mcmahon to the floor up for secretary secretary. her confirmation vote won't come until at least next week. some democrats question why the president nominated her when he intends to eliminate the department. >> dana: chad pergram. it is existing for now and see what she does when she gets there. thank you so much. >> bill: a game on the ice tonight that you can't miss. u.s. and canada, a rematch from

over the weekend. the championship game of the four nations hockey tournament. it will be politically and physically charged. nate foye, great assignment. bring it home. >> oh, i'm a lucky guy, bill. the greatest rivalry in international hockey and tonight it will have some political tension added on top of it. president trump already adding to that this morning. with this post on truth social saying i'll be calling our great american hockey team this morning to spur them on towards victory tonight against canada which with far lower taxes and much stronger security will someday, maybe soon, become our cherished and very important 51st state. team usa is warming up on the ice behind me. sure to be electric on the ice. keep your eyes on the stands many wondering if boston fans will boo the canadian national anthem after fans in montreal

did that to our anthem last week when the teams first met. when asked about this moment, team usa forward said he didn't like it and then seconds after that he started the first of three consecutive fights in the first nine seconds of the game. keep in mind these players couldn't play in the olympics. they have been waiting to represent their country and tonight is going to be a great game. send it back to you. >> bill: nate, you know what mom says. mom says bring home a winner. it's on you. >> hey, i'm bringing the best mojo that i possibly can. >> dana: that was great to be with you and shannon bream takes you through the next hour in for "the faulkner focus." >> shannon: pick it up here with