everything. the focus, the adrenalin. we're racing for an hour and a half and we're probably going to burn about 2,000 calories. and so it's a work-out in that thing, man. >> not just pushing pedals and turning wheels. no power steering and hitting the pedals. >> ainsley: do you have to take a break in bed the next day? >> you're sore and pulling upwards of 5gs on some of the corners. it is a hard car to drive. >> brian: kickoff st. petersburg, this sunday, march 2nd begins at 12:00. 100 days until the indy 500. >> bill: good morning. we're off to have races. jam-packed week at the white house.

topping the agenda new push to hold government workers accountable. meanwhile president trump shedding light on what inspired him to run again. kind of funny in a way. good morning. hope your weekend was glorious. i'm bill hemmer. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." it's funny in the delivery like this. it took it seriously. he told attendees the crisis at the border under biden prompted him to run for re-election. >> president trump: i had four years, i couldn't stand it. don't get angry, donald, don't get angry. i couldn't stand it! watching these people come in from jails and mental institutions and the worst criminals and the street gang members being dropped off in buses and bused into our country. i couldn't stand it! so i said i'm going to run for president again.

and now we don't have that problem. [cheers and applause] now we don't have that problem anymore. [cheers and applause] we don't have that problem anymore. >> bill: cpac on saturday. a big day at the white house. president trump will welcome the french president macron at the same time administration putting new pressure on the federal workforce throughout washington and the country. >> dana: bill will work on his french accent as we go forward. that all came in the form of an email from elon musk that asked federal workers to list five things they accomplished last week and if they don't respond they could lose their job. >> bill: some agencies are telling employees not to worry about it. kayleigh mcenany with the monday morning analysis. aishah hosni from the hill. peter doocy from the white house and where we start a brand-new week. peter, good morning.

>> bonjour, bill. instead of having president macron on this g7 call from blair house across the street and president trump the two of them are in the west wing together talking to allies to start the morning about the beginning of the end of the ukraine war. >> security guarantees for ukraine is a different conversation. one of the things that we fully support is both france and the united kingdom and other europeans saying they would be willing to enter into security guarantees for the future of ukraine. that's a different conversation. >> as the doge team wants emails from federal workers by midnight with five bullet points from everybody explaining what they am come blurbed on the job last week. >> a significant number of people supposed to be working for the government are doing so little work they aren't checking email at all. in some cases we believe

non-existent people or identities of dead people are being used to collect paychecks. in other words, there is outright fraud. but wary agencies are telling workers not to reply including the pentagon where workers got an email please pause any response to the opm email titled what did you do last week? federal employee unions and lawmakers criticizing musk's approach and this email. president trump is pleased. he posted that he wants elon musk to be more aggressive. bill. >> bill: okay. [speaking french frnlts >> dana: some democrats are pushing back against doge's demands. aishah hosni has the latest. bonjour. >> i don't have any french, i'm sorry. i don't speak french. i will tell you that democrats are using some not so nice words

when describing elon musk especially when that email went out over the weekend from the government to those employees and that includes minnesota senator tina smith. not so minnesota nice on x. take a look what she wrote about elon. she said this is the ultimate bleep move from musk. he isn't the boss, he is a [bleep]. elon said what did you get done last week? smith shot back she only answers to the people of minnesota and that she spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like musk. that's the new talking point from the left. >> taking resources from the federal government in programs that are helping working people and give those in a huge tax to himself. it is completely inhumane what he is doing, by the way. no compassion, no thought about these people working hard to

deliver services. and quite frankly it is crazy that this is his approach. >> as peter mentioned it is interesting to see some of these federal agencies are pushing back telling their employees not to reply to that email. congressional republicans by and large say it is the transparency the american people voted for. >> that is what you call proper management and we have federal employees that are saying we don't want to do that. we want to do whatever we want to do on our time. and that is not acceptable. >> lawmakers get back to the hill later tonight and dana, probably more bleeps. we shall see. anymore french? >> dana: i'm at the end of my limit. we can switch to spanish and we can talk all morning. thanks. >> bill: kayleigh mcenany here on monday morning. good morning to you. a task force for cutting federal spending led by elon musk. number three, do you support it?

all adults 42%. opposed 53. if you pop down the line democrats are 90% against it. wonder how that will shake out in time? >> this is where democrats choose the argument you must use a scalpel and he is saying we need to blow up the system and fix it along the way. a lot of arguments resonate. the arguments about the spending th that's -- that deeply resonates with the american people. the polling battle that pans out and give it a month or two and see where the american people are. >> dana: a moment for philanthropy to step up. you look at some of these foreign aid programs and think wow, the gates foundation getting a ton of great press for the good work they're doing. you find out it is 80% funded by

federal taxpayer. does that mean federal taxpayer dollars should go to it and how it could play out. >> when you think of it in terms of national security, debt that we have, $36 trillion, that's a huge national security situation. for people who don't care so much about that when you think about 55 billion that went to illegal immigrant benefits and start quantifying that in terms of the average salary, somewhere around $57,000 it adds up quickly. tax bill americans are playing but whole salaries. 1,041 american salaries just in benefits to illegal immigrants. >> bill: no friend of donald trump. a fair critic, he goes after democrats saying they can't sell their own message. >> democrats can't sell [bleep]. donald trump can sell. you know, if you gave the democrats a $1 bill and said you can sell these for $0.50 they

would hire 50 people to decide how to do it and would not know how to sell it for $0.50. you give it to donald trump and sell it for $2. he would say it's huge. >> bill: to your point they will have to sell this ultimately and have to convince people it is effective in what they are doing. >> such a lot of fresh ideas. chuck schumer thought he came up with the 2026 message and it was about the reconciliation bill going through congress. here it is the republican goal to give billionaire buddies a tax break and have you the american people pay the cost. that's 2016 bernie sanders. the same old tired talking points. they need fresh faces, fresh messaging. >> dana: not such a fresh face is emerging again as kamala harris was out and about this

weekend. >> some see the flames on our horizons, the rising waters in our cities, the shadows gathering over our democracy, and ask what do we do now? but we know exactly what to do. because we have done it before. and we will do it again. our power has never come from having an easy path. >> dana: that was at the naacp event. so maybe she will emerge as the person that they want to put forward in 2028. there is a part of me that says there is no way they'll let that happen. >> a lot of republicans hopeful for that. talk about tired messaging. the shadows are gathering over our democracy? mark cuban said we tried to democracy message. how did that work out in the campaign? when you dig into the cross tabs

of some of these polls, what you find is that 56% in 2021 said they were an attack on our democracy. 2023, 54%. it's now 45%. donald trump has managed to close the attack on our democracy numbers by 11 points. you have to come up with something fresh. i'm not sure kamala is the right answer for the party. >> bill: we're off and running. who knows what this week brings? it will be something. thank you so much. here we go. >> the longest flight to europe i've ever taken. 15 hours from jfk to rome is not ideal. >> bill: i bet. not what they planned on. no ordinary flight. why an american airlines flight gets diverted from its destination and received a fighter jet escort in the air. plus this. >> president trump: is the gov maine here? are you not going to comply with

it? >> i'm complying with state and federal laws. >> we're the federal law. you better do it because you won't get any federal funding at all if you don't. >> dana: the fight in fairness in women's sports spills into the oval office. >> bill: she spent decades behind bars, decades in jail before president trump commuted her sentence during his first term. she is appointed the pardon czar and she will join us to talk about it live. >> president trump: she spent 22 years in prison. 22 years. another 22 years left. can you believe it? and i pardoned her. you will look and make recommendations and i will follow those recommendations.

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sight. italian fighter jets scramble to escort on american airlines flight to rome diverting after a reported bomb threat on board. heading from jfk to new delhi when it was forced to turn around. law enforcement inspected the plane and said security concern was not credible. >> the fact that it can affect anyone anywhere is what really frankly just scares me. >> bill: well, amid the trump administration's crackdown on mexican cartels the danger they pose is coming into sharper focus now. the head of the dea in dallas now sitting down with fox to pull back the curtain how the cartels target communities with deadly drugs and others. brooke taylor has the details. talked to them with more now. what did you learn, brooke? good morning. >> when it comes to the border, president trump not only focused

on stopping illegal migrants but also the flow of fentanyl at the hands of these powerful mexican cartels. the fentanyl crisis has been an issue for years impacting real people, real communities like here in dallas. we sat down with the special agent in charge who leads the d.e.a.'s dallas division. only two milligrams, a few tiny grains you can barely see. acarding to d.e.a. in 2024 more than 367 million fentanyl pills seized nationwide. here in the dallas field division they seized about 40 million deadly doses. >> fentanyl is still the most deadly illicit drug available in the dallas/ fort worth area. the pills at wholesale price are averaging less than $8 a pill. >> one of his biggest cases to make national headlines was a string of deadly teenage

fentanyl deaths and overdoses a school strict in 2022 and 2023. two years later investigators traced the source of those pills to labs in mexico connecting them to the sinaloa cartel. it led to 40 arrests including many minors involved in the distribution. >> we get asked a lot of times this fight against drugs is a losing baths -- battle. i see lives saved. >> the special agent in charge there says since that case they have had more than a dozen other cases linked to cartels in mexico. but investigating these cases also prosecuting them when it comes to breaking down this distribution chain takes some time, bill. >> bill: brooke, thank you. it is ongoing and see how

effective we can be in the response. thank you. >> president trump: alice was in prison for doing something that today probably wouldn't even be prosecuted. you have been an inspiration to people and we will be listening to your recommendation on pardons. you'll go over and -- she will be my pardon czar, okay? [cheers and applause] you will find people just like you that should not -- this should not have happened. >> dana: president trump appoints a woman he pardoned during his first term as his pardon czar. a black history month event at the white house. we're honored to have alice marie johnson join us now. thank you for joining us from olive branch, tennessee. let's look back for a moment at the oval office where you were pardoned. watch. >> president trump: she has been so outstanding. i'm so proud of you. we're giving alice a full

pardon. that means you can do whatever you want in life and just keep doing the great job you are doing. >> alice, an amazing day four. i imagine you replayed that moment in your mind a lot. what does it mean for you to be the pardon czar? what do you plant to do with that power? >> i plan to fulfill the trust the president has placed in me. he has given me specific marching orders and actually, dana, from the time i've been working on this non-stop since my release this is a continuation of the work i've already been doing. i brought many pardon cases before the president in the past. one thing i can say about president trump, he was very interested in their families, he wanted to know if they have a solid reentry program in place. i wanted to make sure that i brought him the best candidates because what is happening in this nation is really, really sending a message to the world

that we care about the least of his people. >> dana: since you hear from a lot of people and look at all these cases. in your minds what are a couple of things that make for a solid reentry plan? >> well, i have to make sure that the communities are ready to receive them. my number one thing in recommendations is safety in the communities. i want to make sure they have jobs, that they are ready to go home to. the ability not only for ooh second chance but for their best chance of success. and then it takes follow-up. i don't want to help people come home and then at the same time they are set up for failure. we'll be making sure we check in with them not in concert with probation, not to catch them doing something wrong, but to make sure that they have things that will help them make right decisions, that includes making sure they have mental health. sometimes when you've been in

prison for long years, you need to reintegrate. it affects your mentally. i want to make sure those people that are coming home have good family support and if they don't have family they have good faith support. i plan to work with paula white in her faith initiative and plan to work with pam bondi. both of these ladies are very good friends of mine. i worked with brook raw lynns, who know my track record. this trust that the president has placed in me was not trust that was a spur of the moment or selected me because he pardoned me. we actually have worked together. i consider myself a friend of the president. i've even flown on air force one with him before, dana. while there he said to his wife, would you believe that alice just convinced me to release

five people? so he knows i have almost seven years free i've been able to work across the political divide. i met with governors, i've met with families, so this -- i'm ready on day one i was ready. in fact, i started the work before he made an announcement because before he stepped back into office, before the american citizens made their choice loud and clear, president trump had given me a call almost two years ago and he said to me alice, when i go back i'm taking you with me. when he said that, dana, i already knew he was going back. i knew that he was going back. i began putting together plans and getting ready for that moment that i would go back with him. >> dana: alice marie johnson, no doubt we're going to see more of you and honored to have you on our show today. congratulations on your new position. we know that you are going to

hit the ground running, as you said you were already ready. >> i'm ready. >> dana: take care. >> thank you. >> acting in the best interest of los angeles public safety and for the operations of the los angeles fire department, i just met with chief crowley and removed her as fire chief. >> karen bass in hot water for giving the fire chief the boot. did she convince residents she is not the one to blame when she was out of the country for the fire? >> bill: causing concerns skyrocket. transportation secretary sean duffy will join us today live. ds by bundling our home and auto insurance. baby: liberty! biberty: hey kid, it's pronounced "biberty." baby: liberty! biberty: biberty! baby: liberty! biberty: biberty! baby: liberty! biberty: bi-be-rty! baby: biberty! biberty: and now she's mocking me. very mature.

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hochul with a stern warning for eric adams. calls for her to remove adams grew after critics accused him of taking part in a quid pro quo with the trump team that they considered. hochul proposed guardrails to keep the mayor's office in check. watch over him. which would require state and city lawmakers' approval. >> i just met with chief crawley and removed her as fire chief. 1,000 firefighters that could have been on duty on the morning the fires broke were instead sent home on chief crawley's watch. these actions required her removal. >> dana: los angeles mayor karen bass is under fire after booting fire chief christine crawley talking about how she responded to the deadly fires of the cities last month and some say bass was trying to get rid of

the blame after she went to africa. kristin crawley on january 11th was critical of karen bass. watch here. >> any budget cut will impact our ability to provide service. that's -- at this point that is a ground truth in regard to our abilities. since day one we've identified huge gaps in regard to our service delivery and our ability from our firefighters boots on the ground to do their jobs. since day one we are screaming to be properly funded to make sure that our firefighters can do their jobs so that we can serve the community. >> dana: do you think she deserved to be fired by mayor bass? >> i will reserve judgment until we have the full after action report. i know that she has the support from the rank and file. i know she has the support of

her union and the people who worked underneath her were confident in her and what she said after the fire was absolutely correct. now, were there 1,000 firefighters sent home? i hope not. were the reservoirs empty? the one that serves palisades certainly was. that's the kind of thing the deputy mayor in charge of public safety should have been tapped with making sure that they had the resources for this once in a generation windstorm that was forecast long before mayor bass left the continent. so they should have known all that and topped everything off. should have had equipment and firefighters at the ready. they don't have enough firefighters according to the displaced chief and the union and everyone else who works with lafd. they also have a lot of broken down equipment but even if you have working equipment and a legion of firefighters, if the hydrants are empty and you cannot douse the flames, they were forced to abandon swaths of neighborhoods with thousands of

homes in each section and if you go through the list of homes that were critically damaged during the firestorm, it was 93% in one area of the palisades alone because they didn't have any water. they had to move on and try to contain what they could, which was very little. >> bill: earlier last week she had an explanation for this. she used the phrase ill-informed. this is her defense in her own words as much as happened so far. >> although there were warnings that i frankly wasn't aware of, although they were warnings, i think our preparation wasn't what it typically is. >> what do you mean there were warnings you weren't aware of? >> when i talked about it with the fire chief, what she said is that we have warnings of santa ana winds a lot but predicting this. you saw, from the city, from the county, that level of preparation really didn't happen. so it didn't reach that level to

me to say something terrible could happen and maybe you shouldn't have gone on a trip. >> bill: that was one explanation. steve hilton writes l.a. mayor bass's bizarre move won't change the leadership crisis. has she taken the fall for anything? >> dana: absolutely not. right after the fire i said she needs to resign based on the thousands of people who have been displaced because they lost their homes and everything in them. it is totally unacceptable. i thought she should have resigned. but now watching her mallinger and twist in the wind might be better for los angeles and southern california. california as a whole. they get to see how bad the leadership is and the worse she is day after day, the more motivated people will be to remove people like her from office for the next generation. people like her, the job is too big for her. for her to say i had no idea this was happening. no one told me. she is the mayor.

it starts and stops with her. so if she doesn't -- her deputy mayor in charge of public safety was removed from office pending a federal investigation for calling in a bomb threat. he was the guy in charge of police and fire and all the other safety aspect. he wasn't even there. who was in charge when she was gone? if the fire chief sent 1,000 people home it is the mayor who has to say absolutely not. call them back. this is too serious. we were all getting texts how serious this was from the county and from the city. some from her specifically. prior to the fire. >> bill: you know when the santa ana winds blow. >> you also though they weren't garden variety winds. we experience that throughout the year. this was completely different and everyknew it. >> bill: okay. take care of yourself. thank you, kennedy. want to move back to washington quickly. robert f. kennedy's junior's past comments linking vaccines

and autism under scrutiny since his confirmation. a massive jump in autism diagnoses in the last two decades. connecting the two has been difficult, if at all. alexandria hoff has more in d.c. on that. what did you find out? >> even among rfk, jr. critics they appreciate the fact he has brought autism into the conversation. when you look at these and look back at the year 2000 the rate of prevalence was one in 150 diagnosed with autism. now it's one in 36. more common in boys than girls. looking back in studies from 60s and 70s. prevalence then was two to four children per 10,000. >> it's a big vicinity. now it's one in 36 babies have

autism. one in 36. think of that. one if probably 20,000 people. now it's one in 36. there is something wrong. something is wrong. and bobby is going to find it. >> according to the n.i.h. several factors may have contributed to the rise. expansion of diagnostic cry tier yeas in the 90s that created the autism spectrum and increasing awareness. and environmental and data was based on a tiny debunked study. kennedy said he would issue an apology if clearer data presented itself. >> will you say no, i see this. it's stood the test of time and without qualification i say this does not cause it. >> i will apologize for any

statements that misled people otherwise. >> kennedy has issued a video to hhs employees saying that he is willing to be wrong about issues. he also asks them not to come to him at the helm with any pre-conceived notions. >> bill: we'll watch it in washington, d.c. thanks. >> your priority is to fight to keep boys and girls sports, no matter how much it costs maine students, it is very easily fixed by the governor reversing her stance and by maine following federal law. >> dana: state lawmaker is at the forefront of the fight for women's sports. state representative laura libby will join us. one sanctuary city getting a harsh warning from border czar tom homan. >> the police commissioner of boston, you said you doubled down on not helping law

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>> dana: the fight for fairness is getting fiery. the governor of maine threatening to take president trump to court refusing to comply with the order on women's sports. cb cotton is live with the latest. >> good morning. the u.s. department of education has launched civil rights investigations into the maine department of education and maine school district after a transgender student won a girls state pole vault championship. the state continuing to allow students to compete based on gender identity despite president trump's executive

order to keep men out of women's sports leading to this fiery exchange at the without. >> president trump: we are the federal law. your population doesn't want men playing in women's sports. you better comply because otherwise you aren't getting any federal funding. >> see you in court. >> president trump: good, i'll see you in court. that should be a real easy one. i look forward to it. enjoy your life after governor. i don't think you will be in elected politics. >> track and field coach tells fox he refused to be a pole vault judge this year in protest of the trans athlete on the girls team saying the student was an average athlete on the boys' team who tied for ninth place last year but won the competition on the girls' team last week. >> no question, these girls were before the meet started, they were defeated and frustrated. they were longing for who is here to help me?

>> students will see extra security at school today as officials say the national attention has understandably made people concerned about safety. dana. >> dana: thank you. >> bill: want to bring in the maine state senator to bring it into the national spotlight. laura libby is here. good morning to you. a week ago you shot this on x. another day, another instance of unremarkable average male athlete now dominating women's sports. still policy today. what is going to give? >> well, hopefully governor mills will give. that's the answer in the end. president trump is right on with issuing this executive order that the vast majority of americans and maineers agree with. they don't want to see boys in girls sports. we have at lot at risk in our state. 250 million in federal funding. governor mills has got to let go of this extreme policy.

>> bill: when can the money be turned off? when does that start? >> well, that's a great question. i'm sure that's one that governor mills intends to take to the courts. but hopefully it doesn't get turned off at all. this policy needs to be reversed so maine girls have a fair and level playing field and we have the $250 million we need for maine students. >> bill: can i ask you this? there has been a lot of reaction to that exchange at the white house. don't really see inside meetings like this. we saw it that time. what did you think when you watched it? >> i thought that governor mills has finally met her match and playing a game of chicken with president trump. that doesn't seem like a great call to make. >> bill: the democratic governor in colorado reacted this way to that exchange. >> you always hope that people can disagree in a way that elevates the discourse and tries to come to a common solution

around what the issue is. i don't think that disagreement was necessarily a model of that. >> bill: we'll see where it goes. the polling and numbers and people are on your side. here is what we find. "new york times" should transgender female athletes be allowed to compete in women's sports? total is 79% no. republicans are at 94. democrats are at 2/3 at 67%. independents are at 64. what does this tell you? >> that tells me that people don't want to see boys in girls sports. they know it is absolutely unfair given the biological advantages to allow boys to compete against girls. wealth owe see scenarios like this over and over again with a boy dominating females and winning podiums and championships that rightfully belong to these girls. >> bill: how much of the election do you think was part of this issue? >> you know, i think this issue and others like it played a

large role in the election. i think folks are tired of the woke leftist politics. they want to get back to the nuts and bolts. folks especially in maine are struggling just to put food on the table and heat their homes. they are tired of this rhetoric whether it's girls sports or other similar issues. >> bill: right now the maine principals association, which controls athletics in your state, they are still on board. it will continue to allow transgender female athletes to compete despite the order. that exchange was friday. did your governor say much over the weekend? >> she has dug in pretty hard. hone evidently ho honest -- she doesn't really represent our state and left a bad state in folks' mouth for maine. there is so much more to our state than governor mills. the policies of the legislative

democrats and that exchange and this policy. >> bill: laura libby, thank you for your time. looks like we are at lager heads here. thank you for coming on and explaining your position. hope to have the governor on if she says yes. thank you very much. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: well, bill, did you hear about this? alex rodriguez taking his talents to the court banking an incredible half-court shot. watch. >> bill: wow. >> dana: the arena going crazy after witnessing him make the basket. a lucky buck million. 10,000 going towards a student's tuition. >> that was an athlete.

>> dana: great shot there. >> ten grand for that student. from the vatican we've been watching this all weekend by the day now. pope francis still in the hospital listed today again in critical condition. we'll get the latest update from the vatican on that in a moment. ukraine today marks three years since russia invaded. how the ukrainian front line is reacting to president trump's peace for a push -- push for a peace deal? lord, you know what's on our hearts. you know where we struggle. you know where we need to be pushed. help us give it all to you. the good, the bad. help us turn to you in everything we do. amen. i invite you to join me in more prayer on hallow, stay prayed up

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>> bill: that is zelenskyy in kiev talking with the european leaders as we mark three years since russia invaded ukraine. screen left. -- screen right, excuse me. french president macron meets with president trump. they've been talking for at least two hours. keep in mind he comes back to the white house later today and then they hold a press conference. so there is a lot of activity on the front on this story right now. alex hogan is live in the capital city of kiev and watching the story from there. hello, alex. >> hi, bill. the european leaders are here in ukraine today showing solidarity as the country marks the grim milestone of three years since russia's full invasion. yesterday ukrainian president zelenskyy addressed much of the public saying he would step down if that meant peace or a membership to nato. despite u.s. envoy steve witkoff saying the men rails deal could

be signed this week zelenskyy is pushing back and called for a meeting with president trump. >> what else does ukraine need to see in order to accept this deal? >> sure. we cannot agree a deal where we become debtors for things given to us. we are ready to make new investments and equal partners. we need to meet and talk it over. the meeting should be fair before trump meets with putin. >> minerals deal is far from on the minds of troops who are on the front lines or those recovering from battle wounds. we visited a group of soldiers in physical rehab. many of them enlisted after high school. he lost part of his right arm. it is painful to think of these politicians this week talking about striking a peace deal that would give up the land that so many of them were wounded fighting for. >> bill: not going to be