trump, of course, continues referring to canada as america's 51st state. last night the canadian singer who performed the canadian national anthem changed the lyrics of the song to respond to trump. the song normally goes in all of us command. she changed the lyrics to that only us command. listen to this. ♪ only us command ♪ >> you could hear a little bit there, bill. there was a smattering of boos during the performance of the canadian national anthem but overall people were respectful. disappointing night for team usa and usa hockey fans. the thing to look forward to, the past two olympic games nhl players weren't allowed to compete. next year they are allowed to compete so this team might get a rematch with canada in 2026. back to you. >> bill: you are forgiven.

you brought your best mojo. >> appreciate it. >> bill: no reaction from the president just yet on truth social. he could say congratulations, governor. well -- let's see how canada does, okay? we'll leave it at that. >> dana: a fun week for everybody. a fresh start at the f.b.i. kash patel is vowing to rebuild trust in the agency when he starts his new job as head of the bureau today. his nomination was confirm last night by the senate and welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: good morning, happy friday to you. i'm bill hemmer. good morning. kash patel is promising big changes with he takes over as director starting day one. along with fighting violent crime he is promising transparency as he moves to refocus the f.b.i. on law enforcement and restore the faith in the bureau. >> the f.b.i. has lost trust among the american people in recent years.

much of that stems from a perception that politics has infected the f.b.i.'s important work. it's not hard to see why. i look forward to working with mr. patel to restore the integrity of the f.b.i. and get it focused on its critical mission. >> dana: david spunt is at the justice department with a look ahead. hi, david. >> hi dana and bill. kash patel will be sworn in as a director of the f.b.i. today by attorney general pam bondi. it will happen in the 4:00 hour in the eisenhower executive office building next door to the white house. he will be joined by family and friends. he plans to bring many changes to this bureau. a bureau that has been in existence since 1908. no stranger to controversy. the last ten years the f.b.i. has really faced a test of credibility from both sides of the aisle. kash patel has promised to make changes including sending more employees out of washington into

field offices across the country. also promised more transparency. he said in a statement my mission as director is clear. let good cops be cops and rebuild the trust in the f.b.i. working alongside the dedicated women of the bureau we'll rebuild an f.b.i. the american people can be proud of. we will hunt you down on every corner of the planet to whoever wants to hurt the usa. >> we are returning f.b.i. agents to their core function fighting violent crime. this is a great majority of men and women in law enforcement, as well as incredible legal team that the justice department. that's what they want to do. >> patel does not come without controversy. yesterday democratic senators stood outside f.b.i. headquarters with a sign that read stop patel. >> kash patel, mark my words,

will cause evil in this building behind us and republicans who vote for him will rue that day. >> ultimately he will be -- he was confirmed 51-49. the next director of the f.b.i. when he is sworn in and we expect him to meet with members of his executive team and agents later today at the f.b.i. hoover building. >> dana: let's bring in shannon bream. he walks in and he has a full desk of all sorts of issues because the f.b.i. has so many responsibilities. where do you think he starts? >> i do think he has to think about morale there but says it will be about law enforcement. let cops be cops is what he said. let us go after the bad guys and stop some of the cultural and woke stuff we were doing. i think law enforcement will be a priority for him but other things he was asked about during

his confirmation process. will you get to the name and author and person behind the memo that said ardent catholics should be watched as some kind of potential threat. will you release the epstein files? he had a lot of back and forth with blackburn about that. a lot of expectations on him. law enforcement will be the first priority, he says. >> bill: these cases rolling through the courts . trump team is two for two yesterday. they didn't stop the movement on behalf of doge. one judge who ruled in their favor appointed by barack obama christopher cooper. for the reasons explained below the court will deny the union's the preliminary relief they seek because it likely lacks subject matter jurisdiction to hear their claims. the claims must instead be brought before the federal labor relations authority under the federal service labor management relation statute. anyway, he said he doesn't have

the jurisdiction over the claims is what he ruled. >> yes, so to not get too wonky he said this isn't the court for what you are trying to do. not that you won't have success somewhere else an pointing them to the place they should go. there are specific routes when it comes to federal employees and union contracts and those kinds of things. but the trump administration will take this as a win. anything that allows them and their policies to move forward even if it is on a technicality is a win. they are able to do some of these things. in the meantime. but there are what, we're tracking nearly 80 cases involving trump administration policies. we're waiting at this moment and looking at my computer. the supreme court could at any moment as they hand out opinions this morning give us a decision in the case of dillinger, the guy fired and fighting this saying the executive doesn't have the power to get rid of him. we wait to see whether the supreme court weighs in on that. the first case of this trump term to get to the supreme

court. >> dana: do you anticipate that the democrats will continue to try this legal lawfare type thing? it is not working for them but i'm thinking about the cards that they have to play. one of the only ones they have in order to get attention. >> you are exactly right. we've seen the protests, seen them showing up in various federal buildings. you saw what david spunt showed us. we were on the air when they did it at the department of education. those are the optics they work with. the courts may be their best option. they don't have the legislative or executive branch. they can get delayed. some of these policies there are injunctions and slow down the trump administration even if they feel like they will win on the merits it gums up with works a little bit. probably the best tool democrats have. >> bill: jim jordan is on this weekend. judiciary committee in the house. jim hines, democrat intel committee. what are you going for? >> we'll talk about foreign policy.

the minutia of what we cover watching the u.s./ukraine relationship and trying to parse everything we get with a statement from either side. both of them are in the middle of budget battle. the senate got their stuff done. the house has a heavy lift trying to get the tax cuts into a budget plan there. both sides of the aisle and talk to them both about that, too. >> dana: all right. we'll be watching. thank you. >> thanks, guys. >> the chain saw for bureaucracy. chain saw. >> bill: talk about a prop. elon musk with the chain saw at cpac vowing to cut bureaucracy with doge. man, we have seen growing influence inside the republican party. what is on tap today, mark?

>> good morning. elon musk made an impression with the crowd in that chain saw stunt. he is only one of the maga political leaders speaking throughout the work. vance was here yesterday. tomorrow president trump is speaking. cpac is a conservative -- for the last several years it has become a pro-trump crowd. musk vowed to keep cutting wasteful government spending. >> people ask how can you find waste in d.c.? it is like being in a room and target the wall, roofs and floor are altar gets. -- all targets. >> mike johnson said he struggled in the last few years to communicate with president biden as democrats are scrambling for a new leader. >> well, he wasn't the leader for the last four years. they really are in a real bind.

they don't have a leader, no vision, no platform they can run on. >> among those speaking today national security advisor mike waltz. hearing from doug collins and florida congressman byron donalds. trump is urging donalds to run as the next governor of florida posting donalds would be a great and powerful governor should he decide to run, will have my complete and total endorsement. run, byron, run. we know where trump stands on the potential candidacy for him and look to see if donalds responds when he takes the stage behind me and hear from kari lake running voice of america but has no plans to seek public office again. >> bill: they're fired up already at 10:00 in the morning. mark meredith, thank you. >> as we start to secure our borders, especially in southwest, it has to go somewhere. >> trying to keep america safe.

>> dana: border patrol taking to the seas as president trump's crackdown forces smugglers to change tactics. fox got a ride along. >> the border czar, tom homan saying the crackdown is yielding major savings for american taxpayers. if that's the case, what do you do with the money that you save? >> dana: one of the survivors of the toronto plane crash speaks out with new details on that harrowing ordeal. >> we were jolted and started to roll, explosion and fire. things flying through the air, bodies being jolted around.

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>> bill: with the crackdown at the southern border traffickers looking for plan b and for some could be by water. fox news with an exclusive ride with a marine patrol unit in south florida. danamarie mcnicholl is there. what did you see? >> good morning, bill. cbp's air and marine operations have no fences or checkpoints. faced with the open ocean and thousands of miles of terrain like this along the florida coastline. dense trees, smugglers try to drop off illegal migrants in areas like this. >> dramatically different stress environment compared to the southwest and northern border. >> conditions are unpredictable and dangerous for customs and border protection. air and marine agents trying to stop the constant flow of illegal migrants and narcotics from reaching u.s. shores. a major threat boats coming from

the bahamas only 50 miles from florida. this stop turned out to be a routine customs check but agents say they are regularly faced with smugglers growing bolder. earlier this month a boat didn't stop for cbp and agents had to chase them. 20 illegal migrants were found on that boat. hours after our patrol cbp agents intercepted another boat carrying 13 illegal migrants. agents say these smuggling operations are sophisticated and unrelenting. >> they'll try different times of day, days of the week to try to look for those gaps. >> florida isn't the only hot spot. on the west coast boats carrying illegal migrants have been detected as far north as the bay area. hundreds of miles from the mexican border. and cbp tells us this fiscal year alone they have apprehended 300 illegal migrants trying to

get to florida by boat keeping them one of the busiest units in the country. >> bill: good reporting in south florida. >> welfare cards and food stamps and social services you see around the homes. this has been going on for decades. thank god for doge. these billions of dollars we'll save that illegal aliens shouldn't be getting will help rebuild north carolina and florida and california. these are illegally being given to people not supposed to be there. >> dana: he says that the money previously spent on migrants could now go to help americans. this comes as the feds report a sharp drop in migrants trying to illegally enter the u.s. since the middle of last year. joining us now in "new york post" reporter who was just down visiting the southern border. great to have you here. you've been following this for months and months.

we have a chart. i don't know if we have it here. yes, we do. where you see the number of migrants coming down steadily and now at its lowest level in many years. do you see that on the ground as well just like with your own eyes? >> absolutely. when i was out with border patrol this week in the el paso sector of the border where just a year ago about we saw that riot break out. i saw that with my own two eyes where we had 300 angry migrants rip through the razor wire and run up to the border wall. assault our national guard soldiers and try to force their way into the united states. now that area is seeing around 90 migrants crossing each day and these are the ones that are trying to evade border patrol. they aren't these ones having the sense of entitlement trying to rush the border wall and getting aggressive. these are the ones when caught, like this one migrant with saw in the span of just four hours,

we only saw one apprehension during that time in that sector while we were riding along with border patrol. this was a 23-year-old migrant from mexico and he was crying to me because he got caught. he was even pleading with the new administration when i was recording him saying, you know, i'm supporting what trump is doing. going after the bad guys. i'm not a bad guys. i don't have tattoos. this is what the ones trying to run because they know once they are caught they will be kicked out within 24 hours. >> dana: where was he from? >> he was from mexico. >> dana: i want to play this. call for number two. you visiting the sight of that migrant riot a year later. >> nearly a year before and 15 miles down the road from the mountainous crossing point hundreds of migrants bum rushed the border and tackled troops on their way. this is exactly where that happened. it was under the previous administration. i remember being down here nearly a year ago and seeing

this scene of chaos, violence, destruction, of people desperate to get into the u.s. to get caught and then released. that's all over under this administration. now it is quiet. >> dana: i remember when you were there and you came on and talked about it then. to the extent that you are able to talk to any border patrol. i know they will probably only talk to you off the record. what are they saying and feeling right now? >> they are so jubilant. they have their jobs back. they are not in these processing centers anymore with thousands of migrants every day. to what they've, their job was babysitting is what they say. and now they are back on the front lines and they are out numbering the illegal migrants. when we say the mexican migrant get caught, he was surrounded by six border patrol agents. i haven't seen anything like that in my years of coverage on the border. this is something bringing morale back to border patrol and

giving them their purpose back. they don't feel like they're just doing catch and release all day and knowingly releasing people who are criminals and terrorists and national security risks. now their job is to catch those people and kick them back as soon as possible. >> dana: my last question. do you think that guys like you interviewed when he got caught, is word getting back amongst the people in mexico or in other countries that they're most likely to be caught and sent back immediately? do you think it's having an effect? >> absolutely. we've seen from some internal border patrol memos that there are groups of migrants that are being caught going south now by different countries, they are going back to home countries because they see there is no reward for their efforts anymore. they aren't going to be released into the country. and so the cartels are going to have to scramble now. this is something to keep watch of. are they going to shift their tactics now because they are

losing their biggest source of income, which has become the human smuggling industry, out paced their drug smuggler operations. so this is something that we're starting to see a little bit of with some shootings along the border. some warnings about i.e. dids being placed on the border. drone attacks. there is definitely real threats out there still and it has come with the shift the migrants turning back and cartels losing their industry there. >> dana: jenny, i followed you ever since that time. everybody should follow her on x and work at the "new york post." thanks for coming on the show. >> thank you. >> dana: take care, jenny. >> we have a sworn duty to this nation to resist oligarchy including any billionaire that tries to undermine our constitution. he thinks he has a bank account with a lot of zeros in it that has made him a super citizen. i don't think so.

>> bill: democrats ramping it up against president trump and elon musk as the hits to wasteful spending keep on coming. also trump administration set to derail california's long-delayed bullet train. a federal probe into a billion dollar rail project that has yet to even lay a track.

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he called for this audit which could effectively kill the bullet train and why this is how the l.a. union station looked like yesterday. protestors, many union workers who depend on federal lifeline threw tomatoes and heckle sean duffy. >> if you want to protest and shout at someone go to the governor's mansion and democrats in the legislature who brought us this crappy project. >> 17 years and $16 billion later the project has yet to lay a single foot of rail. it was sold to voters in 2008 as a low cost way to get from l.a. to san francisco in under three hours. even then the claim was wildly misleading or a lie depending who you believe. >> this is a failed project. it is a complete waste of money for california taxpayers and federal taxpayers. >> we want to say no to a king and yes to high speed rail. something that will help people

for generations and help take vehicles off the road and help people have more options to get around california. >> federal taxpayers dumped $3 billion spew the project with another $4 billion promised by but not already spent by president biden. the audit could provide president trump to claw that money back. >> when they have oaf complied with the agreements they've signed with the federal government. we can't say we'll give money and not hold states accountable to how they spend that money. >> the train is decades behind schedule and $1 hundred billion short. governor newsom wants to finish the central valley leg. it needs another $20 billion. without federal help it's unlikely. any money federal or state should be better spent on wildfire prevention and water storage than a train to nowhere. >> dana: thank you, william la jeunesse.

>> how can you find waste in d.c.? it's like being in a room and the targets the walls, roofs and floor are all-targets. you can't miss. >> the walls, floor and crying. what has happened so far and the cuts out of d.c. just this week now take you back to wednesday. $226 million over 18 grants focused on d.e.i. wednesday they had 200 billion spent on covid for schools in america and they are finding now that some of the money went to things like renting out a major league baseball stadium and hotel rooms here in las vegas. probably not the intention. thursday you've got more epa cuts here, $324,000 there. and also on thursday you had

$115 million through 95 contracts. some of that hit a retreat in atlanta and also malaysian study tour. that's out, too. clear this off and come over here. that's what they are cutting. this has to do with fraud, okay? this is a number given out of the government accountability office from 2018 to 2022. you have to look at the zeros here. when there are nine zeros billions, 521 billion estimated in fraud. where does it come from? look at this graphic. if you can get it on camera here. look at the longest lines. the top line is health and human services, 2.7 billion. next is the department of defense, $2.3 billion. labor at a billion dollars and on down the line. a lot of money any way you look at it. the money man is charles payne making money and saving money and doing all kinds of stuff and crunching numbers for dana and

me right now. hello. >> what's interesting every presidential candidate talks about going line by line and getting rid of waste, fraud and abuse. we have to rephrase it to debt fraud and abuse. there is no thing as waste. it really is. the money is going somewhere. not like a few coins that fall out of your pocket between pillow cushions, right? this is the part of the story that's out raging americans. this is not just incompetence or bureaucracy and the money gets lost, no. people are deliberately taking money and redirecting it for their own personal benefit. right now washington, d.c. is entering a recession, a recession. washington, d.c., why? because people are fleeing, the folks have taken this money are fleeing, leaving. writing is on the wall. elon musk shoot in every direction. every one of those directions are leaving town. >> dana: how you think about this doge dividend check. there are a lot of questions.

fishback had the idea. watch here. >> look at the doge savings and send 20% of that right back to the hard working americans who sent it to d.c. in the first place, dana. they didn't send it to washington, d.c. for it to be spent on a iraqi sesame street. they sent it for roads, bridges, healthcare and education. that is lacking. guess what? taxpayers are overdue for restitution. >> dana: that's a different way than he described it the other day. he said 20% would be for checks for people. the rest would go toward deficit reduction. >> the difference between that and let's say a lot of things that biden did. biden created money out of thin air. he is saying we'll find the cash and redirect it to people. again, you know, you don't have the deficit problems. something very interesting this morning. from bank of america, they say to get to 3% deficit, which,

three, three, three program there are three ways to do it. 10% nominal gdp growth. that's not feasible. we are a large country to grow that fast. 1 trillion raised in revenues. higher taxes. we're talking about lowering taxes. 1 trillion in spending cuts. that brings us to doge. he says doge is the most realistic way we can achieve this. he actually thinks that go after the department of energy, department of education, department of transportation, even the department of defense. this is the quote easiest route to the lower u.s. deficit and they are making investment based on the success of doge. >> bill: there is some talk here, you mentioned the recession in washington, d.c. there is some talk and analysis this week the doge cuts could cause a recession. do you buy into that? >> i don't buy into that because again we aren't talking about money that was making its way to a certain target. we talk about money enriching a handful of people and those

mansions that people are putting up for sale in d.c. and other parts of the country. not like we're taking away money. the intended target never got the cash. taxpayers forked over a billion dollars. the intended target got 50 million. someone got all the money in the middle. take it from them. it won't hurt them or the economy but the establishment. the elite establishment ripping off america pulling out our heart strings and stealing money from us the way they defend it. oh, they are going after the children. they name these programs. the child poverty program, how dare you go after that. how dare you hijack billions of dollars in the name of these poor kids. domestic and international. they have gotten away with it for a long time. who can forget the climate? it rained yesterday. that was climate right there. >> dana: good to see you. shot in the arm. >> bill: 2:00? >> 2:00. >> many adisappointed it seems

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>> bill: there has been a lot of news regarding ukraine and russia this week. app at cpac, michael waltz said this about striking a deal with ukraine. >> here is the bottom line. president zelenskyy is going to sign that deal and you will see that in the very short term and that is good for ukraine. what better could you have for ukraine than to be in an economic partnership with the united states? we have an obligation to you, the american taxpayer to recoup the hundreds of billions of dollars invested in the war. europe's contributions are loans and often paid back on the

interest -- by the interest on russian assets frozen. so europe gets paid back but the american people don't. i don't think so, right? so that's the deal that we are putting in place that's good for everyone. >> bill: i will want to share that with you. part of this deal has to do with rare earth material in ukraine, worth a lot of money. keith kellogg, special envoy was on x two hours ago. he says his meetings with zelenskyy were very positive and went very well. stand by and we'll see how it goes on to another day. >> dana: marathon session to pass the senate's budget blueprint seen as a messaging misfire for democrats. what happened? chad pergram, you were up late last night and now here from capitol hill. >> up late last night and up early this morning. democrats have rallied at federal agencies and departments to punch back against the trump administration and doge. last night they protested on the senate floor. overnight democrats forced votes on more than two dozen

amendments to the gop's budget offer. senate failed to approve any of the democrats' plans during the nearly nine-hour voting marathon. it ended just before dawn. >> the first time this year senate republicans were forced to go on record and defend their plans to cut taxes for donald trump's billionaire friends. what happened tonight was only the beginning. >> one democratic amendment had nothing to do with the budget. it expressed support for ukraine in its war with russia. >> i rise in opposition to this amendment and urge my colleagues to oppose it. there is no greater supporter of ukraine in this senate than i am but this is not the right vehicle. passage of this amendment, though members might wish to, will make it harder to pass this very valuable budget. >> kentucky republican rand paul

was the only gop nay on the resolution. opposed the plan because it calls for additional spending. he wants to go to other direction. >> the budget bill before us instructs the senate to find $342 billion in new spending. the budget bill as written is a spending bill. my amendment would add language to cut spending. >> keep in mind this is only an outline. not binding. saves no money or spends no money. the house has a different plan. so far the house and senate are not on the same page. >> dana: chad, thanks for keeping track of all of it for us. >> they are in a real bind. they don't have a vision. they have to do a reinvention of the party but very divided now in the blame game as they do the autopsy what happened in the election cycle. >> bill: republican house speaker mike johnson piling on

as the party searches for direction during the second trump administration. democratic congressman out of new york is back. we've heard from dean phillips earlier in the week. we've heard from the democratic senator in virginia, mark warner. both expressing concerns about the direction of the party. here is the democratic governor of kentucky and he said this. >> we have to talk to people like real human beings. we sanitize different language so significantly that people don't feel like we're talking to them. it is hard to communicate when you are not using some normal language. >> bill: what about that, sir? what do you think the answer is? >> yeah, i think we have to get back to the basics and talk about the things people care about. they care about wages, concerned about the border, they care about public safety and we have to talk about those things. i think that democratic party is ready to do that. the democrats want to raise the

minimum wage. republicans don't. democrats want to encourage unions, republicans don't. i have a bill that i'm proposing that we should give a corporate tax discount if you share 5% of your stock with the lowest 80% of employees. let's rebuild the middle class in america. when people work hard they are rewarded to make enough money to buy a house, educate their kids and retire without being scared. >> bill: point well taken on that. does this help your cause, give this a listen. >> i don't swear in public very well but we have to [bleep] trump, >> elon musk is seizing the power that belongs to the american people. we are here to fight back. >> [bleep] trump. donald trump and elon musk. >> we will win, we will win.

we will win. we won't rest. >> bill: you look for a different direction when you hear something like that? >> yeah, i wrote an op-ed piece in my local paper the news day here in long island and talk about let's cut the budget and find waste, fraud and abuse. but let's do it the right way. how come with the budgets we're seeing now why don't we see some of the proposed cuts to these different departments included in these budgets? you have had a segment about this a few minutes ago a vote-a-rama in the senate last night. a vote this week by the house about the budget. let's get a list of cuts from doge and from elon musk and from the trump administration and let's debate those cuts and let's put them in the budget. the power of the purse is the united states congress and we should, as a republican said, we should zealously guard the power

of the purse and that authority of the congress. it's in the constitution. same thing has been said by many republicans. >> bill: i read your piece in news day. you said doge is a bull in a china shop execution, clumsy and careless. the other side will argue d.c. will never do it on their own and they must be pushed and this is how you do it. >> i'm all for disrupting things. i'm all for -- let's figure out why would you cut the people guarding the nuclear stockpile or cut the i.r.s. employees in the middle of tax season when you told them before they couldn't take the early lay-off package during tax season? why would you make these cuts without having to plan as to how this is going to affect the administration of government? human beings are involved. jobs that they are counting on. why are we going after the high level employees and when they retire don't replace them rather than the new probationary employees. >> appreciate you coming back

and we'll talk down the road. the democrat from long island. thank you. >> dana: ski resorts are looking forward to big crowds this weekend as snowy weather gives a welcome boost to business. we hit the slopes live, the beast of the east. ♪ i brought in ensure max protein

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>> dana: snowy weather is bringing a boost in business. fox business madison all worth is hitting the slopes in vermont. you have the best assignment of the day, madison. >> dana, i definitely do. i have the best team in the business as well. i got mark, who is an incredible photographer on the sled being pulled by ian. gopro on my head and my point of view as i shred the beast of the east. underneath me 205 inches of snow from the heavens. amazing. two years ago we had 100 inches less than that. it is driving a ton of people out here. in fact, seeing a 10% increase in vicelation compared to last year. that means on a given saturday you are looking at 11,000 people skiing and snowboarding down the

mountain. if you decide to come buy a ticket you will pay at the window $2 hundred. a family spending hundreds if not thousands of dollars to do this. you want to make sure you are doing this and not spending all your time on the lifts. they have redone some of the geography of their mountain and make snow. as much of the mountain is open as possible. >> visits are up 10%. we aren't seeing lines. again, with the amount of snow and the snow making team that we have here we can move people around this mountain and be very efficient. from that standpoint we aren't seeing lines you may hear about in other resorts. >> the lines ten to 12 minutes. not bad at all. even though they have all the snow they are making more so they can stay open until june 1st. the best news, it is march. march is the snowiest season for

vermont. they are expecting more snow and expecting the 10% number to go up higher. dana and bill. >> dana: i have always been impressed with you. right now i am over the moon. it is so good. >> bill: how long is that run? >> as long as you need it to be, bill. we're coming to the end now. >> dana: you are an impressive young woman. congratulations. that was a great. i love this. the camera work, someone is going backwards. they had a big week this week. all the other stuff that's happening. you can pre-order a great book for graduation "i wish someone had told me" all the advice in one package. interviewed a lot of people including you, bill hemmer. >> bill: order it. good advice in there. >> dana: "the faulkner focus" is next. hi, sandra. >> sandra: madison just set the bar really high reportin