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 reporting on the

slopes. all right. fox news alert as we top off a new hour. we're about to hear directly from president trump speaking with the nation's governors at the white house. we'll bring you that when it happens comes as he is following through on his promise to make border security his top priority. crackdown stretches across the entire federal government. well beyond the department of homeland security. all right. that's where we are at this hour. this is "the faulkner focus" and i'm sandra smith in for harris. mexico continues to step up its cooperation. now military commanders from the u.s. and mexico have agreed on a plan to further increase border security. mexico's president, however, is pushing against the u.s. designating eight latin american cartels and gangs as foreign terrorist organizations. she have expressed concern that the u.s. military might cross the border to target those groups. that is something defense secretary hegseth has not ruled

out. the number of border crossings have dropped so much under federal trump. the el paso sector that saw a peak of 800 encounters per day now sees fewer than 100. across the entire southern border the number dropped to just 359 illegal migrants a day. compare that to the 2024 average of nearly 3,000. president trump on how it all started. >> president trump: on day one i declared a national emergency on our southern border. i sent our military to the border to secure the sovereign territory of the united states of america. we ended catch and release. we began the largest deportation operation in american history. >> in dramatic video obtained by fox, it shows an intense high-speed chase involving illegal migrants last year. senior correspondent mike tobin

has more on that scene we just saw there. tell us about it. >> you know the illinois governor and mayor of chicago are opposed to immigration reform efforts from the trump administration. you have counties in illinois stepping up to say they have enough problems and they don't want to be a sanctuary. >> he just took off on me. >> two hondurans lead police on a high speed chase through corn fields an hour and a half out of chicago. >> subject is on foot running northbound through the field. >> get your hands up. get them up. >> an 18-year-old and a 23-year-old arrested. seven pounds of fentanyl found in the car. >> three bricks. >> the illinois safety act eliminates cash bond. one was released without bail and quickly fled to california. one is held in jail. they were in illinois because it

is a sanctuary state. >> if we had a less welcoming state for illegal immigration, i don't know if they would have been traveling those roadways. >> the irony is it happened in this county, the first county in illinois to push back against the democrat governor and pass a resolution declaring the county doesn't welcome illegal migrants. as a result when migrants from texas were bused to chicago and suburbs this county never received a bus load. >> we haven't had the problems other counties and municipalities have had by not being non-sanctuary. >> dozens of illinois counties copied their language and passed their own non-sanctuary resolution. one man was picked up in california held for another incident in san francisco. ice issued a detainer for the other man requesting they get notification if he will be released. county officials can't grant that request. it would violate the illinois trust act that says he can't

communicate with federal authorities. >> sandra: mike, thank you. the left's lawfare against president trump and doge took multiple hits this week. four separate judges handed legal wins to doge. a judge also denied a union-led effort to stop the administration's firings of federal workers. former assistant district attorney phil holloway with this take on the focus yesterday. >> now we see with all of this lawfare 3.0 federal district courts, which by the way are not even mentioned by the constitution. they are created by congress. these executive -- the executive functions of the presidency are being usurped and invaded by federal courts. if they step outside the constitution courts have the judicial power. but it doesn't mean judges get

to sub stae tithe toot their judgment for that of the president because they do not like his policies. >> sandra: at any moment now we could be hearing from the supreme court on whether or not trump has the power to fire the head of the country's watchdog agency. he claims his position is legally shielded from termination without cause. those are just a few of the examples of the 80 legal challenges against trump actions so far. a former federal prosecutor and former u.s. attorney for utah joins us now. brett. give us your take where this all goes next? >> sandra, thank you for having me on. i think this has been a fascinating chapter to watch the judges acting like toddlers. they are mad and upset. they know they don't really have the basis to stop the head of the executive branch from actually controlling and leading the executive branch. that's what this is about. they don't like the policies.

they are pushing very hard. using their power to try to temporarily stop them. i think we'll continue to see this. i want to point out, this has been the thoughtful consideration of dozens and dozens of brilliant lawyers working for four years since the last trump term anticipating these lawsuits with all of these actions. none of this is without thought. none of this is without a strategic plan to deal with what they anticipated would happen when president trump goes in as president again and tries to lead the executive branch. >> sandra: you think about the four years in between his president sees and how much time there was to put a team together and put thought into this and you saw many members of that team take to the white house press briefing room yesterday to defend these actions. stephen miller and others. meanwhile, brett, this is the "wall street journal" editorial

board with a new piece. his bold order putting independent agencies under white house control echoes the founders. excerpt from that president trump is trying to assert control over the entire executive branch of government for better or worse. his latest effort is an order published today that imposes new white house supervision over so-called independent agencies like the securities and exchange commission. s.e.c. this could be a constitutional watershed. brett, what say you? >> sandra, look at some of the departments that we have. we have health and human services, over 100,000 employees. department of justice over 115,000 employees. the bulk of which are bureaucrats who remain through multiple administrations. they are capable of passing regulations and have done so without control, without

oversight, without accountability. and they've promulgated thousands and thousands of regulations. congress isn't involved in that. so we have a nation that is now being ruled by bureaucrats inside departments that don't have the benefit of the elected officials we put into office to give oversight of what they are passing and requiring us to follow in terms of citizens of this country. now we have an executive that says wait a minute, that's not what our constitution outlines. not the way we are supposed to be governed and they'll try to restore that. we should applaud the fact we'll get rid of bureaucrats who make living in the country difficult. >> sandra: critics are calling out democratic lawmakers for their hypocrisy. some senators are concerned that taxpayers privacy looks to cut waste at the i.r.s. we've heard a lot of criticism

of that. they previously pounced over leaked tax returns. highlighting a fricke times story exposing trump's leaked tax information. they called to probe a watchdog group's report that used leake i.r.s. information and claiming the super rich dodgeed taxes. here is what warren had to say. >> trump could write a textbook on how to cheat america. here is the thing, he is just the most miserable example. he is a symptom of a larger problem. the wealthy and the well connected have snaked their way into our laws and regulations and rigged the rules in their favor over and over. >> sandra: fast forward to today then and the senator is now concerned about taxpayers information. she posted elon musk doge operatives are attempting to access confidential tax information, tax returns, bank

data, social security numbers from millions of americans, illegal access the lead to jail time under federal law. we're investigating and fighting back. where will they get with that? >> it's ironic to hear and be lectured by senator warren, whose net worth has multiplied well beyond the capability of her yearly salary. americans watch this and they go come on, we know much of this is politics but the reality is they are hypocritical. the executive branch does get that information, does get to view that information, and right now doge is a branch of the executive branch itself. it is a part of what donald trump put in place and elon musk is part of that team that is asked to review spending and where the money goes. why -- i hope the democrats

continue with this line of response because what american is sitting there saying you know, let's not look into -- let's not pull the curtain up and look at where the money has gone and who has been enriched with our funds. >> bill: i want to bring up the stunt during a doge house subcommittee meeting. it could have legal consequences. robert garcia. >> in the last congress chairwoman green showed a [bleep] in congressional hearing so i thought i would bring one as well. now this, of course, we know is president elon musk. >> do you think that calling elon musk a [bleep] is effective messaging for confronting what is a potentially irreversible transformation of the u.s. government? >> he is a [bleep]. he is also harming the american public. what i think is really important

and what the american public wants is for us to bring actual weapons to this fight. it is an actual fight for democracy for the future of this country. >> sandra: the comments caught the attention of the u.s. attorney for washington, d.c. comes from garcia posted a letter. it referenced his mention of weapons. this sounds to some like a threat to mr. musk and appointed representative of president trump who you call the d word and government staff who work for him. we take threats against public officials very seriously. should the house dem face consequences, brett? >> you know, look, i think elon musk, you know, he is fine being called names. president trump is fine being called names. crossing the line, the rhetoric being at a level in which we've seen prior to the president -- the assassination attempt on the president is reckless and i'm

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>> sandra: israeli authorities are investigating what they believe is a terror attack. three buses near tel aviv exploded. they've steped up raids in the west bank. as we learn the body hamas claimed was the mother of two toddlers murdered by hamas terrorists was not actually her. forensic analysis was not able to determine whose remains they actually were. the idf is demanding the terror group shiri's body and all other hostages being held captive. prime minister netanyahu is outraged. >> these children were four years old and less than 1-year-old when hamas savages snatched them from their mother's arms. she fought like a lion yes, sir

to pro tecti her boys. who kidnaps babies and murders them. these hamas monsters cynically refused to bring back the boy's mother and sent a body of a gazan woman. the entire world should condemn these horrific murders. >> sandra: all of our hearts are broken over this. the latest. >> not only is israel claiming that one of the hostage bodies returned was not shiri bibas, but israel says they are victims to a terrorist attack that once again is targeting more innocent israelis. investigators in central israel say multiple buses had finished routes and parked when explosions went off. bombs detonating inside three buses with devices also being found on two other buses that did not explode. police report that the five bombs were identical all fixed

with timers. it is a miracle no one was hurt. all this happening the same day the remains of two child hostages and their mother were handed back to israel by hamas. however, israel positively identified both the children. the body said to be their mother was that of an unidentified woman from gaza and learning the idf believes the bib as were not killed in an air strike but murdered. >> the terrorists did not shoot the two young boys. they killed them with their bare hands. afterwards, they committed horrific acts to cover up these atrocities. >> representatives from hamas released a statement today saying they will conduct a thorough review but they point to the possibility of a mix-up of bodies saying that the remains were found in an area they claim israel had bombed with palestinians also present.

hamas says they have no reason not to uphold the ongoing cease-fire deal and we expect at least six living hostages to be released tomorrow. back to you. >> sandra: jeff, thank you. president trump's aggressive agenda at the border is putting the war on fentanyl in focus. the president is deploying new technology to disrupt drug traffickers using drones and a.i. jd vance with this warning for traffickers. >> we have to secure the southern border and thanks to his actions border crossings are down well over 90% and we're just getting started. our message to the drug traffickers is get the [bleep] 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. >> sandra: jennifer griffin has the latest for us from the pentagon. hi, jennifer. >> new a.i. driven software

technology exists that could help border patrol agents and the department of homeland security find fentanyl traffickers coming across the southern border. fox news has learned these advanced a.i. solutions remain under utilized due to a beer democratic hold-up. >> we discovered that we had the ability to force the narco traffickers into behaviors that would be riskier for them and make it harder for them to get fentanyl across the border. >> most fentanyl enters the u.s. through legal border crossings via semi trucks driven by american citizens, not migrants carrying backpacks through illegal routes. frontier foundry software can be put on the laptop or smartphone of a border patrol agent to pick out which trucks in line at the border is likely carrying

fentanyl. >> something that we noticed is how gas is paid for in the trucks and the payments we noticed patterns of behavior of the trucks themselves, the trailers themselves, where they ended up. there is a specific parking lot in missouri that is well-known as a human trafficking and drug shipment point. if you know the truck is there you work backwards and say if it is crossing the border may we want to take a second look at that one. >> bill: cbp has deployed autonomous surveillance towers made by another defense tech firm to detect a human being from 2.8 kilometers away. these towers are powered by solar panels and operate 24-seven in remote areas using a software. the system eye dent files a human being and sends notification to border agents on phones or laptops with an image surrounded by bright green rectangles. the founder said if these

sentinel towers had been placed between russia and ukraine they could have tipped the ukrainians to the russian invasion and perhaps helped prevent a war. we reached out to cbp. they have named the towers, the sentinel towers, a proven program. >> sandra: one of robert f. kennedy's first news is issuing new transgender language guidance. the left is not happy about this. a reporter asked white house deputy chief of staff for policy. asked stephen miller. listen. >> we're hearing this narrative from the president's critics and left wing media that elon musk is an unelected bureaucrat and doing terrible stuff and who is running the white house was joe

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elected fail to understand how government works. so i'm glad for the opportunity for a brief civics lesson. a president is elected by the whole american people. the only official in the entire government that is elected by the entire nation, right? judges are appointed, members of congress are elected at tricked or state level. article two has a clause saying the executive power shall be vested in a president, singular. the whole will of democracy is imbued into the elected president. that president then appoints staff to then impose that democratic will onto the government. the threat to democracy, the threat to democracy is the the unelected bureaucracy of lifetime tenured civil service who answer to no one and believe they can do whatever they want without consequence, who believe them set their own agenda no matter what americans vote for.

>> sandra: as you can imagine support poured in for that answer. some of the praise included he is right, you know, stephen miller explains in clear and concise terms to the ignorant news media how donald trump was elected to represent the will of the american people and it isn't the place of unelected career bureaucrats to run their own agenda. a lot of folks watching that saying what was your response? >> i had flashbacks to sophomore year when i took a civics 101 class and my professor talked to me the same way. stephen miller seemed to relish that moment in the briefing room yesterday. this is a senior advisor to the president clearly competent in his argument and knows a majority of the public supports that argument. when he talks about how okay, we have a chief executive that was hired by the american people. the chief executive he hires

advisors to carry out certain tasks. then they report back to the chief executive. in this case the president. with recommendations the president can accept or reject. nothing undram i can about it. rooting out government waste and corruption is a 90/10 issue in support. trust in government under joe biden and kamala harris sank to an all time low and look at how must waste they're uncovering in four weeks alone. why so many media reports against this act that seems to be the most transparent and democratic we've seen in decades is the question. >> sandra: we'll see if the civic lesson calms concern. health and human services secr secretary rfk, jr. hhs released new guidance for the government and public saying only two sexes will be recognized, male and female. it provides narrower definitions

with words like sex, female, male, woman, girl, man, boy, mother, father. rfk, jr. said that administration is bringing back common sense. prior add -- the department also launched a website with definitions and created a video in support on a ban of biological men in women's sports. >> i think that our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge. cultural message wants to turn everybody whether male or female, into idiots who think the same, talk the same and act the same. we think god made male and female for a purpose and we want you guys to thrive as young men

and as young women. >> sandra: doesn't it all bring it back to common sense and how it was a common sense election. people want to bring that back, joe. final thought. >> sandra, yeah, talk about professors. more like hearing a third grade teacher explain what a male and female is or sex or genders. this is very common sense stuff at a base level. again, when rfk, jr. says the prior administration is trying to engineer gender eyeology. a former presidential candidate saying this. when you see overwhelming support for banning biological men from competing against biological women as a former college athlete you can relate to that. putting tampons in bathrooms of a boy's elementary school as tim walz as done as minnesota

governor. no one sane or sober can support that. this is common sense coming back and appears to be under trump 2.0. >> sandra: saw you twice in a week. have a great weekend. president trump meanwhile and elon musk taking a chain saw to government spending. you saw that moment. some of that savings may be headed straight for your wallet. plus one month and one day in and president trump has already signed 73 executive orders. the white house says there is a lot more to come. some even later today. >> it is incredible what has been accomplished in 30 days. in the history of the country never been a president hit the ground running like this. tackled so much.

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♪ >> this is the chain saw for bureaucracy. >> sandra: elon musk kicking off cpac doge slashing wasteful federal spending. the white house is working out where the savings would go. some could make its way into your pockets.

democrats continue to rally against doge's efforts. republican lawmakers say it doesn't make any sense. >> what they've uncovered so far is shocking. this is again only the beginning. the democrat party's tantrums are why they hold no majority in congress and their candidate is not in the white house. doge is rightly pulling back the curtains that have been closed for years and the outrage we're seeing across the aisle is baffling. >> sandra: peter doocy is live at the white house for us. >> good morning. new details about how these doge checks could work. it turns out before they could be cut and sent and cashed, congress would first have to go through a long and drawn out spending fight. >> 20% back to taxpayers, 20% to pay down the debt, 60% is left. who gets that? >> well, the way it works is when you achieve savings, you can either return it to the

taxpayers, return it to our debtors, or it can be cycled into next year's budget. >> there is broad bipartisan support for cutting wasteful programs and duplicate payments. the direct to taxpayer refunds are a tough sell even for the president's most important allies in congress. >> if you think about our core principles. fiscal responsibility is what we do as conservative. our brand. we have a $36 trillion federal debt. a giant deficit that we're contending with. i think we need to pay down the credit card. >> elon musk does not care take critics accuse doge of taking a chain saw to programs that require more precision. that's why he carried a chain saw on stage at cpac last night and dismissed complaints he has nefarious plans for people's social security numbers as the world's richest man. >> if i feel some social security i can buy nice things.

>> and we're hearing from officials here that when they talk about $50 billion or so that doge claims to have cut so far, the actual number would be ten or 12 times higher than that because of the way that cbo does their projections. sandra. >> sandra: okay. thank you. peter. republican governors are starting to follow president trump's lead introducing doge-style bills designed to root out waste. reduce inefficiencies and government of abuse. democrats on capitol hill and beyond are railing against those efforts. >> what exactly has he been doing? who is it he hired? who is it he is firing? how he is coming to the conclusions he is coming to. >> his tactics right now a smash and grab robbery and speed is to your advantage when you are the smash and grab robber. doing as much destruct as you

can quickly to your advantage as the smash and grab robber. >> one of the richest -- the richest man in the world who has multiple conflicts of interest as he is looking at what he wants to do with government programs and people. >> sandra: chris cuomo says democrats are repeating the 2024 mistakes. >> they are still in campaign mode sounds like. it seems like. anything that trump or musk does they have to condemn and they have to condemn it on the basis of the people personally. to me it proves they haven't learned their lesson yet that they should be in a better idea business and they do seem like they are defending the status quo. they are defending the establishment. i don't think that's where you want to be right now. you want to be in the business of better.

>> sandra: we have our power panel here. jessica, start with you first. have there been no lessons learned? >> thanks, sandra for having me. it seems that democrats have not learned any lessons from last november's election. they can't even look at this very common sense approach to cutting spending and celebrate it or support it or just stay quiet and let president trump and members of congress and as you pointed out many state leaders across the country do the things they were elected to do last november. i think founder what's really interesting that's really happening on the left. you look at the right cutting spending is not a new thing for the right. what i think doge has done allowed a political cover to get these things done and the left would be wise to take a page out of the right's playbook and say this is what the american people want. they turned out in millions to support these efforts.

>> sandra: a texas democrat be littleed president's support for sending americans' checks based on doge savings. >> listen, he is telling a lie. he is not the one that had anything to do with the $1200 refunds that people had during the midst of covid done by a democratic house and senates. right now what they will do is say we want to give you a refund but congress won't let us because they already know that there is just no money for that. the only reason that those refunds came before was because we were living in different times. >> sandra: fred, why does it seem that democrats don't want to give this a chance? >> you know, sandra and jessica, reality is that democrats are not opposed to a sound and really fiscally responsible financial plan. i would like to remind our viewers the last time america had a budget surplus was under a democratic president named bill

clinton. that being said our issue for many of us for me personally is not necessarily what trump is trying to do but how they're doing about doing it. you can't be accurate in what you are doing by using a.i. only. you kneed to actually talk to people. here are the changes we need to make and people we need to be fired. there are places where you can trim fat. reality is that they are indeed taking a wide approach as opposed to trying to find real savings. that's a problem. >> sandra: i will let jessica respond quickly before we move on. it seems to me, fred, you aren't against doge. >> i'm not against a sound fiscal policy and i don't think democrats are. that's not our brand and thing. the one thing i will say before we go to jessica when we talk about doge at the state levels here in georgia and texas republicans have held the governor's mansion for at least

20 years. when they talk about bringing a state level doge to root out waste, charge and abuse. whatever waste, fraud and abuse there is under your watch. >> american people don't have time to wait around. we're in bankruptcy, a national crisis and needs to be swift action. the president's executive order he released two days ago which places a doge employee at every single agency across the federal government and they will partner with the regulatory branch, that is the the scalp approach and specific and detailed measured approach. let him go with a chain saw on stage. that's fine. it is giving the political will to give it done. permission structure and now let the president's eo and directive to the doge employees be the scalpel to fine-tune exactly where we need to root out waste,

fraud and abuse. >> sandra: as we take in that image again. senate republicans scoring a big win in their budget resolution on back-to-back votes. the plan laid out funding for some of trump's biggest priorities. taking an aggressive approach. he signed 73 executive orders ranging from abortion, immigration, trade, daily mail asked senators to sum up trump's first month in one word. aggressive, bold, action, and hurricane. white house says the president is delivering results to the american people. >> president trump is doing exactly what he promised and doing what americans have begged and pleaded for for generation. no one has done. he is not talking about cutting waste out of government. he is cutting out government programs that don't work or

abuse and hurt the american people. he is stopping federal censorship and stopping weaponized government and using those powers to protect americans and american lives. >> sandra: new polls this week show trump's job approval dipped a bit since he took office but is holding pretty steady in the high to mid 40% range. fred, what he has been doing seems pretty popular and you is answering what the american people asked for when they voted for him. >> his approval rating is good relative to his approval rating in his first term. relative to other presidents in 30 days it is lower. donald trump is doing what he said he would do and that is indisputable. reality is what are the outcomes that we are seeing from those things? we're not sure. at one point he and musk said we saw 8 billion and it was 8 million and when pressed on it the idea and response in general

is well i will say some things that are inaccurate. inaccuracies is what he is supposed to be solving. he doesn't seem that is happening. >> sandra: we're one month in here and you want everything fixed in 30 days. >> send $5 thousand back. >> i think over 77 million americans voted for president trump's agenda including all of the executive orders that have already come out of the white house. i think we should applaud the senate last night and into the this morning for putting a framework to begins to tackle the main issues. we have a major 7-nine days ahead on capitol hill trying to reconcile their differences back to the house. it is important that we remember exactly what the at stake. delivering on the president's agenda for all americans and we have an important deadline coming up march 14th. one of the big planks from the trump agenda is border security.

the border funding will get very tight when the cr expired. the senate taking the big first step with a framework budget allows the process to start. the house will follow suit on tuesday and how you reconcile these two really packages that will move through the chambers i think this is the task of president trump. only he can unite. i think we will see more presence from him over the last 20 days. >> sandra: jessica and fred, thank you so much. enjoyed the conversation. the president is expected to make remarks soon at the white house. we'll have that covered right here on the fox news channel. thank you so much for watching "the faulkner focus." pleasure to be with you here today. i'll be back at 1:00 eastern with john roberts for america reports and pam bondi joins us at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. "outnumbered" is after the break. you realize you're in love... steve? with a laundry detergent.

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