station, deorbit it focus on mars. you are a former space station commander what is your response to that. >> i absolutely agree mars is the next big goal. it's been the next big goal since we landed on the moon in 1969. i very much appreciate that he says many times he has said over the years that he started spacex because he wants to colonize mars. i think that's a great goal getting to mars. getting humans to mars. the space station is a part of that great research laboratory and test bed for systems we are going to need for mars and probably more importantly it's necessary to counter measures to keep people healthy on a journey to mars. >> todd: leroy, thank you so much for your insight and calming me down have. great weekend. carley, have a great weekend. "fox & friends" now.

♪ >> ainsley: good friday morning, 6:00 a.m. on the east coast, february 21st, and this is "fox & friends." cutting costs. literally. elon musk goes viral again as he pulls out a chainsaw that was gifted to him on stage at cpac. >> brian: yes, thank you, argentine that democrats still don't like him and they don't like his ideas to give dingegd checks to americans. >> not in the business of giving out money and honestly i don't know what $5,000 will do for you. >> brian: i could think of a few things. >> ainsley: a lot. >> brian: what about reparations student loan forgiveness. debt cards for immigrants. >> lawre lawrencnoteven a star studded ee white house could go on white house controversy. look at tiger. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> lawrence: just one hour ago

the voting-to-a prove president trump's $340 billion budget plan after an all night vote raamah. >> ainsley: madeleine rivera is in washington with the latest for us. >> madeleine: hi, guys, good morning. senate republicans may have one hurdle skinny budget resolution several options ahead. senate budget blueprint focuses on the border, budget and the military. wanted to focus on tax cuts in a second bill. democrats tried to make the process as painful as possible for republicans by forcing them to take cuff votes on a number of amendments including on medicaid. in the end, all they could really do was slow the g.o.p.'s roll as they did not have the votes to block the measure. >> republicans would like us to believe that their proposed cuts are tackling waste, fraud, and abuse. but make no mistake, stripping away healthcare and nursing home funding for our parents and grandparents -- >> i know my democratic colleagues are going to tonight

to use scare tactics it to message that republicans don't support these vital programs. but we do. these are critical programs that republicans support. >> passing a budget resolution is the first step to unlocking the reconciliation process which allows republicans to pass spending legislation with a simple majority. in order to use the procedure though, the senate and the house must approve the same budget framework and therein lies the rub as the house favors one massive bill. here is vice president j.d. vance talking about president trump's endorsement of the house's plan. >> i actually talked to the president about this yesterday and he said to me look, it's very rare that you can get two reconciliation bills done in one congress which is why he thinks we have got to do a lot with what that one big beautiful bill. that first reconciliation package get through the house and the senate. it's going well. it's early. this stuff takes time to put together. i think, you know, if you had a record pace reconciliation bill,

we would get this thing done may or in june. i think we are on track to do that. >> the senate g.o.p. says their budget resolution is a backup plan up to the house now to act next week. lawrence, ainsley and brian. >> brian: so much going on. thanks so much. appreciate it. a little bit later. chad will break down the details. president trump kind of blew a hole in it yesterday or two days ago when he said i don't want to see two bills. i want to see one bill. the house said yeah, why are you doing two bills? and john thune said okay. that was a little bit of a surprise. but, we'll use this as a back up plan then. >> ainsley: makes si sense to he one bill instead of two. lindsey graham's bill didn't have keeping those tax cuts for americans in that first bill. so he said i want that in. i guess for the very reason that madeleine says it takes longer or j.d. vance says it takes longer to pass two bills do it in one. >> lawrence: initially the cutting. that's what elon musk was doing

with doge. took the stage cpac with a chainsaw demonstrating essentially what he has been doing to our federal government. getting rid of all the waste, fraud, and abuse. here it is. [cheers] >> this is the chainsaw for bureaucracy. chainsaw! >> ainsley: the guy on stage with him that's waiving, that's the president of argentina. he gives elon that blinked out chainsaw that elon was holding up. both of them are known for cutting waste. >> lawrence: did it in this country. >> brian: my problem with may lieu he is tight with china and confirming things with china. also friends with elon musk. he said take the chainsaw and made the most of it. you see him take the chainsaw back stage and walks out there. i'm trying to do something really important. watch. >> what's the most surprising

thing that you have encountered when you go to d.c.? and i said well, the most surprising thing is the scale the expenditures and actually how easy it is with -- when you add caring and competence where it was absent before, you can actually save billions of dollars. sometimes in an hour. it's wild. it just shows that they really lack empathy for the average taxpayer who is working hard, paying taxes, and then they say oh, a million dollars doesn't matter. imi'm like i think it matters a lot to people. what are you talking about? >> lawrence: so conflicted about doge on one hand of course i support everything that's happening. i feel like it's in the run down every single day it's doge doge doge doge. i go out there and talk to the american people every single day and that's all they're talking about is doge. people that are not really

political, they wanna see where the money is going. they want the waste to go away. i think there is a spirit amongst americans now when they look at their circumstance. they look at their family struggling, some of them living paycheck to paycheck and they see some of this outrageous spending. they are wondering why they haven't gotten some of that money. i think it's the top story every single day for a reason. it's something that rest signaresonateswith the american. >> ainsley: he said it's going to save medicare and social security. this is not optional. it's essential. treating the government's money is no different than the way you would treat your checking account. a person who overspends, he says, usually goes bankrupt. we are spending more than we are taking in. and he is saying got to start cutting. you have might not like it. might lose your job but we don't have a choice. >> brian: 600 going to lose their job. over performance. i never got a performance

review. both could be true. you could have bad performance and no performance review which is part of the problem with the federal government. there is no accountability in the big stoffer. and if you look at what the irs is. very few people outside of joe biden's family thought it was a great idea they had 87,000 agents. gradually adding them. now cutting them back. now they will look at the pentagon. do you notice that the treasury, education, as soon as linda mcmahon getting there mentioned. pete hegseth, secretary of state, please cut. they are going to add money to defense. they got to get smarter. >> 700,000 civilian employees how many are actually necessary. how many are doing redundant work? the reason why speed matters, if you think about it logically, the longer you take and dig in don't cut my program, republicans do. that's in my state. don't do that but, if you come in with an outside force, which doge is, not anchored to a secretarial position and you say this is what is best for the country. also i got didn't.

i didn't cut 6700 from the irs. even though it's better for the country and political career. you get two things. you are not responsible for it and responsible thing to do in the big picture. >> lawrence: gives them the political cover that they need. >> brian: i think so. that's why you don't take your time. you do make mistakes but walk it back when you do. >> lawrence: something i'm not proud of, one person become a star from the democratic party from my hometown her name is jazmine crocket. you are seeing her all over the network. she is making the case for democrats. she says that her party is not in the business of just giving out money. this is the congresswoman. >> president trump says he likes the idea of giving some of the savings from doge back to americans as kind of a dividend. would you support that? >> no. we are not in the business of giving out money. and, mobile, i don't know if $5,000 will do for you if you are unable to find a job because i am telling people we are headed toward a recession.

>> lawrence: but, ainsley, they are. that's all they do. >> ainsley: she says we are not in the business of giving out money. yet, she was one of the ones, there were 130 democrats co-sponsored a bill to establish commission on reparation proposals in 2023. she also has supported student loans, the democrats have, illegal migrants sty upons and debit cards and hotel rooms for illegal immigrants. drug kits for addicts. safe places can you go and shoot up in california and democrats have supported that. they're giving a lot of money tout what republicans think and donald trump thinks is wasteful spending. >> brian: look. we differ. i actually want to pay down the debt. i don't want to give $5,000 back to people. even though it's your taxpayer dollars. that's what she seems to be forgetting. this is not your money. these are taxpayer dollars taken from hardworking people that were being misspent and misallocated so said why don't we put it back in the pot and

$400 million of the 2 trillion that we're saving in theory. my feeling is when i have a debt i want to pay down that debt. i don't want the $5,000. i want in the big picture, if you pay down that debt, we have less money that we are putting towards that debt. which allows more social programs or the country to thrive or less regulation or the country -- >> ainsley: what about the people suffering after the last four years of the biden administration. one person wrote i don't know what $5,000 will do for you, that's what she said. it's clearly an elitist trash politician talk. 5,000 is absolutely life-changing for most americans. >> lawrence: people barely making it. when i go to those diners the amount of people that tell me they have to get a second job now that have had to sell their car now just to afford basic necessities? i think that little bit would not only help them but would be great for the morale of the country as well. and so i think the president's view is let's have a balanced approach. let's pay some of the debt off.

a little bit of the debt off. and also give the american people just a little boost. we're not saying that it's going to change your entire circumstance, but it will help them to get through the next month. >> ainsley: 20% of what elon has saved so far. if he just does it a one-time thing, it lets americans know, okay, we're getting our money back for the wasteful spending. and then if elon sticks to cutting a trillion every year over the next four years, then that's $4 trillion just 20% maybe of that first year goes back to america. >> brian: i see your pointed. i just think if i have a debt. i want that paid down want i don't want to take money out. the debt accumulates and then you have the interest rate. it was explained to me and if i could figure it out, anyone can i'm not great with math. explain to me with the money that we are paying now is on the 2% on interest. the money that we have taken out now to pay -- we owe $840 billion just for the first third of this year. that's taken out of 5% interest rate. we haven't begun to pay the 5%

back. let alone the 2% interest rate that we took out loans. that's what is getting so scary to smart people like elon musk. he said you don't understand. we don't have a choice. we're going to have no money for defense or medicare, social security if all our money goes the way the math is towards interest rates. meanwhile, this is a big month in this country. black history month. and the president of the united states took some time yesterday with the republican governor's association to point that out. president trying to get the pga and liv to come together. >> lawrence: i love how did you that, brian. we have been talking about black history month throughout the break. he teed it up the people that you felt like should have been honored disappointed booker t. was not on the list. yesterday the president brought a lot of black conservatives together people i didn't know were supporters of the president. different celebrities. one of them was tiger woods. watch. >> is there anybody like our

tiger? how are you? [cheers] >> is he great one. do you want to say a couple of words? he is much more comfortable. [chanting tiger] >> it's an honor to be here. it's an honor to be here with you mr. president and with all of you. thank you so much. [cheers] >> ainsley: he got a lot more of the black vote this time around than the first term. the first term in 2020, 8%. this time 15%. and among black male voters and you talk to a lot of them lawrence, when you were out at the barbershop, 2020, 13%. in 2024, 25%, a fourth. >> lawrence: it was a beautiful moment the president worked for the vote. you all heard me say it multiple times on this program. he was going to get a large black support. he was making the pitch going to the barbershop, talking about the issues and taxes and reforming education system. and to see roland martin go on

twitter yesterday and theres with a photo of all the trump supporters and this is what he put on there. he called them the help. i mean, i don't understand -- i don't say this about the left when they are support hog they want to support. to take the photo of the black conservative and refer to them as essentially like a slavery term of saying that they were in the kitchen helping donald trump, i thought was disgusting. but that's how the democratic party looks at folks that are open-minded and just want what is best for their community. >> i think those black male voters especially when you talk to them i just need to take care of my family, would appreciate that $5,000 check. whether or not he does it, i don't know. i think most americans could gets behind that donald trump thanked the black voters for his g.o.p. victory. >> just a few months ago people in this room and millions of black americans played their own part in the american story. when you went to the voting booth and restored a nice, good,

slid gove solid government. steadfast faith of so many we abolished that horrific institution. expanded civil rights and advanced america's -- >> brian: statue unveil in the rose garden today or might be there now of harriett tubman, rosa parks, billie holiday, aretha franklin, creeng, jacqui heinrich robinson. mohammed atly kobe bryant and tiger woods there in person. if i'm the president of the united states, i got one term left, i would find out not money but opportunity into the black community what do you need? how do you help? don't pander. he doesn't pander. he doesn't know how to pander, actually. let's find out how to do it because it resonates. the person that's missing that president trump would have at the white house every day is

booker t. washington. and booker t. washington remarkable story up from slavery so impressive that teddy roosevelt republican vice president at the time eventual president i got to meet this guy they met in new york city. he they coulded up working together in segregated south and started tuskegee in segregated south. don't worry about the racism around you it was everywhere. we are going to become so valuable. learn skills. learn to study. become so valuable white people are going to be forced to look at us differently because they grew up in an era of segregation and being unequal and coming out of slavery and walking back of jim crow. booker t. washington should be front and center. >> lawrence: is he also a builder as well. he was an entrepreneur. he is one that talked about essentially you make good products they will be forced to buy our products as well. if there is anyone with the exception of frederick douglass who is my hero of course. >> brian: he was booker t.

washington's hero. >> lawrence: if there is anyone that is more relatable that comes from economic standpoint it, would be booker t. washington. >> ainsley: we still have three more black history months after this month under donald trump. maybe he will add him next year. >> brian: i will lobby for it. let's remember, he added all these individuals and he is the one who started the national garden of american heroes that, concept was first formed by trump during 2020 during a fourth of july parade in south dakota. >> brian: i was right. it's not the rose garden. is he not going to put up a bunch of statues in the rose garden, i don't think. they need that area. >> brian: can he do whatever he wants. when i walk through there, i saw the first time, at a christmas party, i saw barron's soccer goal. he had a soccer goal set up on the lawn. >> ainsley: glass hallway. >> brian: why not statues? i think it's great. i would love to see -- people should understand, too. i'm not looking to go back in time. with the democrats in the south

that was segregated. the republicans, abraham lincoln, the republican party pushing against it. that's how things have reversed since the 1960s. >> lawrence: we will hand it over to carley for headlines. >> carley: major news on the war in gaza. israeli military says hamas has violated the cease-fire agreement after failing to return the body of shiri bib bass. a young monday taken hostage by the terror group. this comes as israel prepares for the release of the final six living hostages in phase one. the u.s. envoy for the hostages now warns hamas to release the rest of the hostages or face big consequences. >> horrific. it's a clear violation. if i have one peels of advice for hamas now, it's not only you need to release her body immediately, if i were them, i would release everybody or they are going to face total annihilation right now. >> hamas had agreed to return the bodies of four hostages, including bib bass, her two

sons, two very young sons and 83-year-old oded. lift shift. the fourth body did not match shiri bib bass or any other israeli hostage rebuild the bureau. the american people deserve fbi transparent accountable and committed to justice. the politicization of our justice system has eroded public trust and that ends today. trey gowdy joins us to discuss what is next for the fbi. now to the hockey game that had everyone talking. canada defeating the u.s. 3-2 in a thrilling overtime. conner mcdavis scoring the goal-winning game -- the game-winning goal, rather.

the team has now claimed hockey's first four nation faceoff title. before the game president trump had said this about the neighbors up north. >> i think they have to become the 51st state. you heard the people booing the national anthem but i think ultimately they will be praising the national anthem. we will have to work out some deal governor trudeau is doing a wonderful job. >> carley: canadian prime minister justin trudeau reacted to the win in trump want statement posting you can't take our country and you can't take our game. and in related news, guys, taritartartariff canada went up. i'm only kidding. >> lawrence: good game. >> clearly saying he is the governor of canada. >> brian: i called not to boo the canadian national anthem according to my ted my source biggest hockey guy he stayed up

last night. he doesn't need any sleep which is strange. he says we did not boo the national anthem. which is awesome. i love showing some class. >> ainsley: i don't think i -- i watched the game. maybe a few boos. i thought. i heard a few boos. >> brian: i'm on the record now this is true, right? >> ainsley: it wasn't unanimous because and did you hear carley right before they did both national an themselves, the announcer said please respect each other's national anthem. >> carley: yes. >> lawrence: it was a great game. >> brian: i watched two periods and then i tried to be responsible. >> lawrence: because we do have a show to do the next day. congratulations to canada of course i was pointed we lost if that's the way to lose in overtime. >> brian: canadians invented hockey. we'll watched their films. >> ainsley: i you wanted the u.s. to win. >> lawrence: i did, too. i totally did. i thought we were but you win some you lose some. >> brian: president called and motivated them.

they are very -- if you want patriotic people go to a hockey game. on the ice and then. >> lawrence: i feel like everything is becoming patriotic now like us vs. them now. it's like us rallying together against the other countries i like a little spirit. >> brian: clearly you don't watch "the view." >> lawrence: right. >> brian: but you are right in america. >> lawrence: little people are watching "the view" right now. >> ainsley: 22 minutes after the hour. activists exposing ice inside this movement happening in l.a. >> vehicle not going to have life on the side mirrors or on the inside. [inaudible] >> no we're not. literally trying to make it safer. >> lawrence: stupid. plus dem lawmakers rage against government waste. could it have anything to do with the hundreds of billions in federal funding following into their state? >> brian: brian brenberg crosses the numbers in just moments.

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straight. here to break it down is the co-host of big money show brian brenberg. look at some of the numbers here troubling numbers. 232 billion that they have already cut. what is that? >> this is doge and elon musk saying we got really old software systems. we're not going to keep running those same kinds of systems. get rid of those contracts and figure out how we can do it better. that's where they got the 232. that's some savings there. >> lawrence: big number? >> brian: pay attention to this one. this is your improper payments and social security. could be because somebody is deceased and still paying them. could be the wrong person is actually getting the payment. the point is 72 billion over 7 years. that's a lot of money. that's what musk and doge are going after. they want to figure this out. >> lawrence: 23 million in improper payments, what are we talking about here? >> so this is -- so this number, okay. >> lawrence: this is the portion. >> brian: pay it forward another year. america, every year this is what you end up on the hook for.

so, it's not going to stop. the 72 billion that we already know happened isn't going to stop unless we fix something. that's the point of looking at this. that's the point figuring out the data systems and point of getting your records in order they are not right now. >> 44,000 number jumping at me. could we really have that amount of old people. >> lawrence: i'm a numbers guy. do you think we have that number of people living currently should be on the system? >> brian: i can't tell you if we have a population big enough for that what i can tell you is when you have got 44,000 people not marked as deceased still on the record and that old you ought to look at it. we should be able to know these things. the point of elon musk and doge is we can know these things. we don't have to run on 60-year-old software to figure this out. >> lawrence: you are like why don't we know though? is there -- are we just not in the times right now to have the

proper. >> brian: let me give you my theory on this. if you are a private company, you can't afford to run on this kind of software. you can't afford to have this kind of sloppiness in your records because a competitor won't and they will beat you. the federal government doesn't have a competitor. when push comes to shove do they want to update? does anybody who knows these systems want to move onto the next one? do they want to do that hard work? my answer is they really don't which is why this stuff gets perpetuated not just for years but for literally decades in this case resistance from the democrats went to look at some of the money their state has been receiving. some of these folks are in leadership. receiving $20 billion to his statement. jamie raskin in leadership $31 billion. 33 billion for rose belarus is a. gerry connolly. leader himself $91 billion to

his state. >> in politics money is power. if you are getting money for your state, you are making your constituents in your state happy. that's who i is there to make big changes. the folks who count on the cash flowing year after years hate it they have good reasons why they like spending programs no doubt. they are out there saying it. the point is they don't want that that works for them. >> lawrence: when i'm talking to average day folks in the country of all political persuasions. they like the cutting. they are wondering why aren't they receiving some of this huge funds. >> brian: there is intuition and it's right it's not their money and not the government's money it's taxpayer money, right? every improper payment. every check that goes to somebody who doesn't deserve it, every check that puts somebody

on dependency for the government. taxpayers know that's their money and they don't want to do that they want somebody looking out for this. somebody who cares about what we call the improper stuff. that's doge. >> lawrence: professor breaking it all down. i'm sure you are going to be talking about this on your show. >> we have been and we will. >> lawrence: big money show check it out 12 p.m. eastern time on fox business. so can trump bring peace to the middle east. exiled crowned prince of iran has a message for the president. that's next. >> in the middle east i have restored my policy of maximum pressure on iran designed to bring peace. ever feel like a s [applause]life each lasting 4 hours or more. botox® prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine. in a survey, 91% of users wish they'd started sooner. so why wait?

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teens into the 20's, and we're still into cold weather alerts today. but this weekend things will start to improve but we're still dealing with single digits below zero, especially when it comes to wind chill, dangerous wind chill today but hope on the horizon, my friend, this pattern is going to change drastically cold air retreats into canada, warm air invades much of the country and we will feel very spring like. look at some of the temperature swings, negative 45 in parts of north dakota, next week into the 40's, 92-degree change in just a matter of days, so the good news is we're going to be dealing with spring like temperatures as we head into early next week and on the map, not too much to report in terms of storms in the forecast northeast setting up another atmospheric river heavy rain along the coast next week and heavy mountain know, they need it because they're into a

doubt. warm air on the horizon, we like it. brian kilmeade over to you. >> thank you so much, janice, 21 minutes before the top of the hour. president trump says is he working to deny iran all paths to a nuclear weapon and bring lasting peace to the middle east. >> in the middle east, i have restored my policy of maximum pressure on iran designed to bring peace. >> the president's maximum pressure on iran, which was working in his first term, bankrupted them is working now yet again, the president understands that you don't have to bomb iran, you need bankrupt them. >> wow, our next guest has been advocating for iran freed fromlike rule all his life and has a message for president trump on what to do next. the exiled crowned prince of iran rizzs is a pa lavay joins us now your thoughts on the president's goal?

make sure you are allied with the right partners deal for those who stand against peace. only peacemakers can bring peace. warmongers never do. the problem you have with a regime in this nature it has always been pros tile export ideology at the expense of his own people using proxies like hamas or hezbollah my momentum. if president trump and these the message i have sending especially today in the new administration would like to achieve that need to recognize the fact in order to build on that policy such as weakening the regime. this regime will never admit peace. government represents the aspiration of its people who

have no qualms or arguments and antagonism towards the jewish state, the israelis, the arabs, or anything like that. that's what can forge lasting peace that will lead to completely different scenario than the one we are facing right now. regime? tehran. >> roughly how many people are you in touch with inside iran right now fortunately the social media reaching our compatriots. they dialogue us back and forth. i see see people like elon musk very helpful bringing star link so the iranians are not disconnected from the rest of the world and have access to internet. communicate. >> brian: right. what i'm getting at you told me during the break this is the weak -- the most weakened state of the regime in 40 years you believe you have facts to back that up. how would we know this?

>> you are beginning to see signs of defection within the regime cracking up. begin to see elements who used to be known to the reformest camp still trying to push change from within through reforms that don't believe that in anymore. with those of us who from the very beginning have been advocating that not an answer to iran's future. people protest. the way they organize themselves. the messaging, the messages they send to the outside world clearly indicates death to the dictator. the regime is weak. the element that we need, however, is much more support, not just outside pressure, which is important coupled with maximum support. then you will see maximum defection assimilate the transition. that's what we need to work together on in order to make iran great again as the president trump wants to make america great again.

he we say miga he says maga. same goal. >> brian: almost destroyed assad in russia. lost three major allies. who knows if iraq how long they will be subjected to iran's dominance. other big story watching the slow release of israeli hostages and some american hostages. yesterday was different. we got four caskets. one of the bodies was not even the young mom they told us it was. shiri bibas and the two children dead. not from bombs from israel according to they were killed by hamas. what does the message send now within the middle east? what message is that to the idf? what should israel be taking away from this?

can't see the tree for the foss forest. reason for tragedies human losses my heart goes out to both sides. palestinians and israelis that should not have been caught in this kind of conflict to begin with had they not been as a result of a regime in tehran that has been moving tentacles. dispatching fire trucks to put out the fires but never gone after the arsonist. i have been saying it from day one. the world needs to catch up with the reality to put an end to all of this threats whether it's funding proxy groups, houthis in yemen. of course hezbollah and hamas. the regime's funding of terrorist organizations judge just centers to fund movements that are all the way to american

universities as a result of october 7th. none of this will ultimately resolve the problem if we are stuck on the issue of how do we recover hostages and this and that we have to go beyond that. >> i'm sure bibi nehanyahu knows that than anyone. never nor vulnerable. missile defense destroyed. body guards have been diminished. thank you so much. hopefully one day you will be back in your country. all right. >> well, i cannot wait to help freedom. thank you for the opportunity, guys. >> brian: you got it. 15 minutes before the top of the hour we move ahead. volunteers patrolling the streets of los angeles to warn the public when ice agents are around. wait until you hear the details. >> normal people are not going to have lights on the side mirrors or on the inside. >> no, we're not. >> we're literally trying to get

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>> ainsley: anti-ice activist patrolling neighborhoods in los angeles and going out and warning the public about ice in the area. watch this. >> operations taking place. we are not sure yet what exactly is happening. we don't know if this is ice

related or not. normal vehicles are not going to have lights on the side mirrors. or on the inside. [inaudible] >> no we are not. we are literally trying to get safer. this has nothing to do with immigration. literally zero. >> promise it's not ice related or immigration related they also said hsi was not here. we saw them. there are pictures of them here. >> >> ainsley: griff joins us now. >> griff: hey, ainsley. >> ainsley: what do you think live streaming. on facebook. warning people posting what their rights are if they are here illegally. >> griff: this is unbelievably destructive and interfering with law enforcement, ainsley. and this out in l.a. you have apparently this, quote community of self-defense coalition. it's a group of dozens of pro-illegal immigration sanctuary city activists that are out there. and you saw on the video the person putting that on facebook

looks like an idiot because the cops telling them this has nothing to do with immigration. yet, they are trying to warn. it comes after we just had the leak of the ice raid out in aurora, colorado. and you are seeing now the dhs secretary kristi noem saying she may do polygraph test to say who may be leaking some of this stuff. at the end of the day, the sad part of it is that these activists don't realize they may be protecting the next laken riley killer or justin new england nungaray killer. these are not just poor moms and children that ice and dea are going after. they are going after harr donned criminals pose a threat in the community. yet they are obstructing law enforcement from doing their job to literally make the community safer. >> activists are doing it in aurora and aoc is doing it here in new york. >> we did reach out to the hsi los angeles for -- and ice for more information, but we have not heard back. we will continue to cover. this you have a new fox nation

special about the panama canal tell us about it? >> show down at the panama canal. ainsley, this is a must watch. available right now on fox nation, because we went down to panama, the fox nation team, and we got unbelievable unprecedented access. i'm on a boat in the canal and looking at the old locks that america built and the new locks that panama built to take bigger ships. at the end of the day, president trump, one might say, is obsessed with panama canal. he talks about it all the time. going to take it back. ultimately his problem isn't with the pain mainians, it's with china and growing threat of china. they have ports that are leased and controlled on either side of the panama. and the fear is and the reason why president trump keeps saying he may need to take it back the canal is threatened is because if there were, god forbid a time of conflict. china could try to choke that area off. >> ainsley: exactly. >> griff: you will see this develop a lot. if you want to know the history, understand what's at stake and hear from the authorities down there but how they feel about trump taking it back. check it out.

panel get it on fox nation. >> ainsley: thank you griff for coming on. >> griff: thank you, ainsley. >> ainsley: hand it over to carley for headlines. >> carley: check out dash cam video end of a high-speed chase involving two honduran migrants, illinois police say the illegals had seven pounds of fentanyl in their car. this happened back in october. it turns out that one of them got out of jail, thanks to the state's sanctuary laws. one prosecutor saying by restricting law enforcement's ability to enforce the law. we are undermining public safety. happening today, congressman byron donalds will speak at cpac as considers a run for florida governor, president trump says, quote, byron donalds would be a truly great and powerful governor for florida and should he decide to run will have my complete and total endorsement, run byron, run. those are your headlines, ainsley, back upstairs to you. >> >> thank you so much, carley.

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