bind and explain what we'll see what we watch the whole series. >> you have the city the size of tuscaloosa that gets over 100,000 people in a stadium on a saturday. that is decades and decades of success, of people leading the program that made this place what it is, and that's our job to continue to build on it and make it better for those that follow us. >> steve: there is the current coach talking about when nick sabin left. the tides that bind, it is an ultimate, you know, all access pass. you get to see stuff you've never seen before. thank you for bringing that to all of us. >> ainsley: god bless you. >> lawrence: a great example for the country. >> ainsley: have a good day. see you tomorrow on friday. [applause] >> bill: standing ovation in a

room that was packed. something we watched for a long time holding court with the new cabinet. president trump and his team appearing together for the very first time. what they revealed about their plans to reshape america and once again we can watch it live as we did. good morning, everybody on thursday. bill hemmer, good morning at home. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." we're on the cusp of march. it feels like we packed a lot into this year and week. president trump and his cabinet saying they're full steam ahead slashing waste. yesterday he expanded doge's powers. the president calling it a necessity. >> president trump: we're cutting down government. we're cutting down the size of government. we have to. we're bloated, we're sloppy. we have a lot of people that aren't doing their job. we have a lot of people that don't exist. >> bill: the president and his team taking questions for more than an hour. they say they're on the same page and render to enact the trump agenda.

>> there is great camaraderie. the feeling is just fire. this administration is winning. every day it's winning. >> the energy was very positive being the first cabinet meeting with this trump administration. and everybody there is eager to work. >> we talk constantly at the cabinet level and that's why we're getting things done so fast for donald trump. >> dana: rich edson is reporting live from the white house this morning. good morning, rich. >> good morning, dana. the government cuts are accelerating. so are the lawsuits. last night chief justice john roberts temporarily sided with the trump administration in reviewing and eliminating contracts for usaid. it determinedist could hold off paying 2 billion for aid work already completed. the full court is expected to weigh in on this soon. the trump administration is cutting usaid staff, contracts, folding the u.s. international aid organization into the state department. yesterday's cabinet meeting

president trump called the fed federal government. floated, and consolidate operations and moving offices out of the d.c. area. as doge and elon musk intensify their cuts to the federal government. >> if you are we'll throw him out of here. is anybody unhappy? [applause] >> president trump: a lot of respect for elon and that he is doing this. some disagree a little bit but i will tell you for the most part everyone is not only happy, they're thrilled. >> after that cabinet meeting the president signed an executive order requiring the government to justify and publicly release information when it comes to government expenses and travel expenses if that's possible. later today the president will be meeting with the british prime minister starmer.

here to try to plead with the president not to abandon ukraine. the same task macron had on monday. >> bill: josh holmes is with us host. ruthless podcast and good morning to you. breaking news, truth social a moment ago president is talking about cracking down on fentanyl and part of what he said. we cannot allow the scourge to continue to harm the usa and until it stops, the proposed tariffs on march 4th will go into effect. china will likewise be charged an additional 10% tariff on that date. the april 2nd reciprocal tariff date will remain in full force and fact. thank you for your attention to this matter. god bless america. he is back on that. a quick comment before we move to musk, josh. >> i thought it was one of the most important thing the initial discussion of tariffs.

we think about it in an economic-only context and trade policy context. each one of the fact sheets the white house put out in january specifically outlined a section on fentanyl. this administration is taking that very seriously and know we can get better help from partners around the world and this is the next iteration of that. >> dana: in the meantime, there was a cabinet meeting yesterday and here is elon musk talking about the point of that email he sent to federal government workers. >> i think that email was best interpreted as a performance review. it was a pulse check review actually. do you have a pulse? i think not a high bar is what i'm saying. this is -- should be -- anyone could accomplish this. what we're trying to get to the bottom of we think there are a number of people on the government payroll who are dead, fictional individuals collecting paychecks. >> dana: what do you make of that, josh? >> well, so much has happened in the last six weeks we forget

what we just watched yesterday was the first cabinet meeting. the first opportunity for us to see the contours and relationships between the heads of all of these agencies and elon musk. what it means. one of the takeaways that i had at least he is not trying to be the h.r. manager here. he is definitely not in the earn el business he is trying to clean up the mess. if all these secretaries the focus on implementing the trump agenda and elon musk is cleaning up the mess left behind by generations of waste, fraud and abuse within our federal government, it is a double your pleasure type situation. this is one of those things that has always lagged a little bit in every agency because of the urgency of trying to move forward. well, if you are moving forward at the same time that you have somebody like elon musk and doge cleaning up all the mess, it seems to me that's a pretty efficient operation. >> bill: there will be

resistance. we're seeing it a little more by the day. i don't know how deep they go. marcy, a democrat from northwestern ohio represents toledo and she went after musk this way. >> people doing the firing never served a day in the u.s. military. mr. musk has just been here 22 years and he is a citizen of three countries. i always ask myself the question with the damage he is doing here, when push comes to shove, which country is he loyal to, south africa, canada, or the united states? he has only been a citizen i'll say again 22 years. >> bill: here is the rub, josh, waste, fraud and abuse is popular, okay? across the board. i think the question then becomes how far are they willing to push back? >> yeah. reprehensible commentary there from that individual. we've talked about this before.

the great gift that donald trump has always had is creating an argument where his political opposition is forced to look like absolute idiots. in this case it is overflowing and seems to be every day, questioning the loyalty of elon musk because he is not wild about billions upon billions of wasteful funding going to a whole bunch of projects the american people didn't know about or hadn't approved of if they did. this is a wild commentary. i can't believe the democrats will want to dig in for the long haul on this. seems like they are. but they also know that donald trump is floating above all of this. an argument the american people agree with him on. they're focusing fire on elon musk. i think it works for donald trump pretty well. i think it lowers everything in terms of the democratic attacks. focus on elon if you want. the america first agenda is marching forward and so far very, very popularly. >> dana: it is bizarre she would question his citizenship.

question his loyalty to the country. she says i'll say it again he has only been a citizen for 22 years. >> only. >> dana: final word to you. >> i don't see a lot of democrats lining up to question george soros loyalty to the country. they're concerned of $2 billion going to stacey abrams and some operation she opened up three weeks ago for green energy. they don't want that stuff out there. so this is why they are getting so irritated about it. >> bill: thanks. we'll see how far it goes. a ways to go i think. nice to see you today. here in new york, meanwhile, anti-israeli protestors seizing control of a building at a college in new york city. a college that is tied to columbia university assaulting an employee and threatening to protest until, quote, their demands are met. alexis mcadams back to the story on campus. good morning. >> good morning.

it is happening again on the city's upper west side in new york city. more pro-palestinian protestors. this time they went inside that building out at barnard college in new york and said they weren't going to leave until they got what they wanted. more demands which has continued to happen out here. this comes as other students were trying to get inside as they kept chanting. watch this. [chanting] >> dozens of student protestors wearing head scarves marching inside with mega phones that they kept with them since last year chanting free palestinian as they staged another sit-in at the women's only school affiliated with columbia. seven hours of negotiating with administrators and faculty members after they were told the police were possibly going to be called in. barnard saying this about the chaos.

let us be clear, their disregard for the safety of our community remains completely unacceptable. the new round of protests follows the expulsion of two students after they disrupted a history of modern israel class at columbia in january. they threw out anti-israel flyers with hateful messages saying all classes should be interrupted and the teacher visiting as a professor teaching this course said he was shocked according to different reports. jewish students say they can't believe that classes are being interrupted again. >> we have a class and can't come in? you are catering to them. we have to go to class. >> more protests are being called again for today here at the barnard gates. kaeng out sick and show up for another sit in until they get what we want. >> dana: meantime the world is

mourning bibas and her two sons. they honored the family ahead of their funeral yesterday. thousands of people paid their respects as a caskets made the final journeys. their bodies returned home earlier this month after a cease-fire deal. an incredible amount of heartache. what a turnout. yesterday the empire state building was lit in orange in honor of the bibas family and beautiful redheaded children. >> bill: saw that coming out of madison square garden. follow it on social media. they tell you light up when they choose to light up. they have thousands of lights there. it was remarkable and beautiful evening in new york. this hit our in box when we woke up this morning. watch. >> mr. and mrs. -- mr., whatever your name is, i hope this doesn't influence your vote. >> senator keeley.

>> oh no. >> bill: there is an american acting legend, gene hackman. he and his wife were found dead in their home overnight. what we're learning thus far about a man who appeared in more than 100 films coming up here. >> dana: we're expecting the d.o.j. to released the epstein files including flight logs. what they are expected to reveal. plus this. >> what is your message to them? >> my message has been from the beginning, we're taking nothing off the table. nothing. we'll do whatever it takes to secure the american homeland, to maintain our sovereignty and protect the american people. >> bill: on the tarmac at gitmo. inside gitmo now. pete hegseth shedding light on president trump's plant to fight back against criminal migrants and fentanyl. senator tom cotton is here to react to that visit and more. >> as far as i'm concerned,

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>> all right, jesse, breaking news now. you will see some epstein information being released by my office. what you are going to see hopefully tomorrow is a lot of flight logs, a lot of names. a lot of information. but it's pretty sick what that man did. >> bill: that's the quote. pretty sick. that's the a.g. pam bondi with jesse last night. her office is likely to release some of the files on jeffrey epstein today. speculate has swirled about the names of epstein's associates since he first faced criminal charges back in 2006.

we'll bring the breaking news to you when it happens. right now it has not been made public. stand by, right? >> president trump: we have 30,000 beds in guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the american people. some are so bad we don't trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back. we'll send them to guantanamo. >> dana: president trump ordering his administration to house 30,000 criminal migrants. defense secretary pete hegseth and gave laura ingraham an exclusive first look. >> you will see one-by-one illegal aliens come off the air in shackles. screened on the site and put into the vehicles. >> some of the types of facilities where they are held. this is a -- one part of a multi-part operation across all of government to support

president trump's mission to enforce our borders. >> it's an incredibly professional operation. the message is clear, if you break the law, if you are a criminal, you could find your way to guantanamo. >> dana: let's bring in senator tom cotton chairman of the senate intel committee. i want you to listen to what pete hegseth said about accusations from the aclu that the confinement there in gitmo is against u.n. rules. watch. >> they are saying the confinement is tantamount to solitary confinement against the u.n. rule of -- >> i know what their agenda is. they want to make america look bad. it's a prison. they get all the time they need. it's a temporary place to send them home. >> dana: administration on solid ground legally? >> of course, dana.

guantanamo bay has been used multiple times throughout its history for detainee operations including bill clinton when migrants poured into the united states in the 1990s. i've been there as well. the facilities there are very modern, they are very well maintained. the forces are very professional. i venture to say those migrants at guantanamo are in better conditions than some american citizens in jails today. so i think this was the right decision to put the worst of the worst outside the continental united states as we prepare to send them back to their country of origin. it is a smart decision that reflects common sense. >> dana: do you think they'll hit the number of 30,000? >> well, given how many migrants flooded into our country under joe biden it's possible they could. what we hope to use it as a way station so american taxpayer isn't continuing to fund the presence of migrants in an american military base or in continental united states, get them back to their country where

they belong. >> dana: have you listen to this. pete hegseth talking about american sovereignty. >> what's your message to the cartels? >> taking nothing off the table, nothing. we'll do whatever it takes to secure the american homeland, protect the american people and maintain sovereignty. >> does that mean you are ruling out potential strikes inside of mexico on feat nanotechnology labs? >> i don't think i ruled anything out. anything is on the table. commander-in-chief ultimately with my consultation and chairman and others will make those determinations. >> dana: you also have to be careful not to get ahead of anything. what do you think about that targeting of cartels inside mexico >> cartels along with communist china are responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of americans every year because of drug trafficing including young americans. president trump is right not to rule out any actions against those cartels. sovereignty has two sides.

one we have a sovereign right to protect our territory against drones flying drugs across the southern border. two, mexico has a sovereign responsibility to control its territory and insure it's not being used in ways that harm american citizens. we would like to cooperate with the mexican government and crack down and break these cartels. ultimately president trump is right not to take any option off the table to protect our people. >> dana: last question about the pentagon memo indicating they are going to go forward with this ban on transgender service members to comply with an e.o. your thoughts there. >> it is basic common sense to be in the military you have to be deployable status. you can't have a medical condition or require continued care, medicine or procedures that makes it hard for you to be forward deployed in an austere environment. it was the right policy. i support moving forward with it. >> dana: congratulations to you.

number one "new york times" best seller on seven things you can't say about china. any word from the chinese how they've taken your new book? >> judging by some of the fake reviews they put online, they don't seem to like it. since they've sanctioned me once i don't know what more they can do about it. encourage every american to read it. alarm bell about the threat communist china poses to your life and family. >> dana: do you think 10% tariffs will go into effect on march 4th a couple days from now on monday, do you think that that's the right amount or should it be higher? >> i think it's a good starting point. expect the president to do more on strategic goods especially that china uses the try to gain leverage over the united states. it only scratches the surface of the economic war that china has been waging against the united states for decades, though. >> dana: senator tom cotton, thank you. >> thank you, dana. >> bill: breaking news from overnight. legendary actor gene hackman, his wife betsy and their dog

have been found dead at their home in new mexico. hackman was 95 years old. oscar winner known for a wide range of talent and skill starring in dramas and comedies. maybe one of the best sports movies of all time. >> if you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential, to be the best you can be, i don't care what scoreboard says. at the end of the game in my book we'll be winners. okay? all right. let's go! let's go. let me hear it! . >> go, go, go, go! . >> bill: so good. epic film. he dominated there. jonathan hunt. more on the story. what have we learned? >> good morning, to you, bill.

the bodies of gene hackman and 64-year-old wife were discovered at their home northeast of sante fe, new mexico alongside their dog. santa fay county sheriff confirmed the deaths and says his office is investigating but there is no indication of foul play in the death of the hollywood legend. >> hands on your heads. get off the bar and get on the wall. >> popeye doyle. if he doesn't like you, he will take you apart and it's legal. doyle fights dirty. >> he won his first oscar for his 1971 portrayal of narcotics cop popeye doyle in the french connection. he had a 40 year career in film. he had a knack making every role real. he described himself as being like your everyday mine worker, a mine worker who happened to star in movies like bonnie and clyde, birdcage, superman,

mississippi burning, unforgiven and the poe side an adventure. >> we have to climb up. >> where does that lead to? >> to the galley, sir. >> you stay there. we're coming up. >> the legendary director coppola paid tribute to him this morning calling him a great actor, inspiring and magnificent in his work and complexity. to hackman himself he was just living his dream. >> it's all i ever wanted to do. so few people ever get what they really want in life. it is a make believe world and as i say, it's what i wanted to do as a child and i fulfilled a lot of my dreams. >> gene hackman, my father's favorite actor of all time, dead at 95. >> what a legend. jonathan hunt on that. we'll wait on a couple of things

here, dana. results from an autopsy and figure out the cause of death. favorite film? >> dana: i don't know. hoosiers i remember well. the royal tannenbaums, i feel like it was ten years ago but it was 2001. >> bill: remarkable career. the clip that we played from hoosiers, as i said, he owned that film in a significant way. such a leader. gene hackman, age 95. we'll remember him fondly going forward. >> dana: all eyes on sean duffy heading to the faa academy today as concerns over air safety keep growing. plus the menendez brothers getting a lifeline from former governor gavin newsom. how the convicted killers could be freed from prison. >> do eric and lyle menendez pose a current unreasonable risk to public safety?

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>> bill: 9:34. house than and urban development scott turner leading the room in prayer. >> blessed is the nation whose god is the lord. father, we today honor you and in your rightful place, father, thank you for giving us this opportunity to restore faith in this country and be a blessing to the people of america. lord god, today in our meeting we pray you would be glorified in our conversation in jesus name, amen. >> dana: always pray for the leader and the tasks they have in front of them. >> bill: the hemmer family before the meal. bless us o lord. >> dana: they were like let's meet. there was a cabinet meeting. the white house touting president trump's willingness to

take questions from reporters. white house press secretary karoline leavitt. >> the president of the united states holds press conferences himself for more than an hour, sometimes multiple times a day. and takes questions from an array of journalists from outlets on the left and on the right. this is the most accessible and transparent administration in history. anybody who just watches a television can see that. >> dana: i think you can't argue with that point. karl rove is here with us and great to have you. what is the importance of getting a team together this early on in a cabinet meeting and the utility of a meeting like this from your perspective? >> well, these are the people who will execute the president's policies and there is a lot of activity in the government, as you know from your experience in the white house, that goes on between departments. and so it's good to bring the cabinet together so that they can work as a team, hear from the president and particularly when you are engaged in a

government-wide effort to reduce the head count, to reduce the number of government employees and ferret out waste, fraud and abuse, it is always good to have the cabinet together as a group. >> bill: check out the number of questions here in the first month, okay? >> wow. >> obama in 2009, 161. trump first team 199. biden 141. this is all in the first month now. call for number two and find it there. trump in his second term 1009 and counting by the day. just reflect on that. i thought it was smart of musk yesterday to praise the cabinet that was sitting in front of him saying this is the best group of people assembled here. in my world it's smart pool when you give a compliment like that. >> yeah. also remember look, underneath the surface there is a little bit of tension there because he has got people going into all of those agencies, those cabinet members are beginning their

effort to get ahold of their agency and so they are like what is doge doing elon musk and what do i need to do as the cabinet secretary to reduce my head count? they have attempted to get more process in this. the white house gave a directive they wanted within a certain period of time a plan from each cabinet and significant agency head for reduction in force. what are you going to do to reduce the number of people on the government payroll in your agency? i thought it was a smart move. everybody -- this can't be done by one person and the people who are running these agencies will be surrounded by people wh been confirmed by the congress, nominated by the president, or if they are not confirmed, confirmable positions, people selected by the cabinet secretary and their people. they will have their own team. better to have both the doge effort and more importantly the individual cabinet secretaries and administration agency heads

working on this problem. >> dana: meanwhile, illinois governor pritzker is grasping at paper straws. listen to this -- what he says is happening at the grocery store because of doge. watch. >> the things that i'm speaking out about now about, you know, the threat to our democracy. this is not a message to win elections on. it is something people need to know. what people need to hear about is what the effects of that are. the prices at the grocery store are going up because democracy is being taken away. >> dana: all right, karl. now they care about prices at the gosh re store? >> finally, it's about time. look, this is worth listening to all of what governor pritzker said. it's a long series of statements that are pretty extraordinary. he compares the new administration to adolf hitler and says just as the nazis took over germany in a relatively short time, president trump is engaged in his administration

are engaged in a similar overthrow of a constitutional regime. i think this is over the top and irresponsible. look, there are smart things that the democrats could say. they could say look, you are going at this without a plan. so that's why you are having to -- you fire all the people in charge of our nuclear weapons program and have to bring them back. do you really want to fire 4,000 firefighters when we have a growing threat of fires in the west? do you really want to take people who are experienced in making certain that people get their refunds from the i.r.s. in a timely manner. you want to fire them before tax season? other things they could say and do. this whole idea of if you are going to replace -- reduce the number of federal government employees, you are somehow threatening democracy or if the other things the administration is doing are direct threats to democracy, look, where were these people when the president of the united states said i will

take nearly a trillion dollars of the people's money and give it away without an act of congress? it is what biden was doing trying to give student loan relief. the white house was explicit. the president biden's numbers among young voters are terrible and in preparation for the 2024 election we need to do this. that pritzker thing is over the top and well worth watching it all. >> dana: that's a guy who has higher aspirations for becoming president of the united states. >> wants to run for president. >> dana: thank you. >> bill: thanks for coming on. you have a former college athlete now accused of brutally killing his younger brother. the older brother seen here appears in court. that hearing will begin at the top of the hour. this is tough stuff. president trump slashing green spending and energy giants are taking note doing an about face. extra extraordinary move. listen when zeldin joins us

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>> dana: fox news alert for you. a young unvaccinated child in texas has died from measles, the nation's first reported death from measles in more than a decade. 130 cases have been identified in texas and new mexico.

robert f. kennedy, jr. is describing the outbreak not unusual and is facing backlash for that. >> good morning. the cdc defines an outbreak of three or more related cases, this is the largest in at least three decades. >> incidentally, there have been four measles outbreaks this year in this country. last year there were 16. so it's not unusual. we have measles outbreaks every year. >> death is unusual. texas alone 124 measles cases so far have been identified. number is expected to jump tomorrow with totals update i had at that time. texas officials say of the 20 plus hospitalized, all are unvaccinated. the texas outbreak has also jumped as you mentioned in neighboring new mexico. measles cases have been reported in six additional states. louisiana republican senator bill cassidy says the texas outbreak is spreading in his state's direction. reacting to the child's death writing devastating news.

encouraging parents to make sure their child is up to date on vaccines. the measles vaccine is safe and effective. he stated earlier this month that kennedy assured him he would protect vaccinations despite past skepticism. secretary kennedy says the hospitalizations are for quarantine purposes. >> quarantine is not something that would happen in a healthcare facility. we admit patients who need acute treatment in our hospital. >> hhs are supplying federal reports including vaccines to texas. >> bill: thank you. >> bill: a bit of a shocker. the oil giant back peddling on green energy and misplaced its faith in renewables and pivot 180 degrees the other way. lee zeldin is here to talk about it, the epa administrator. a couple of things. first of all bpceo.

optimism for a fast energy transmission was misplaced. too far too fast. investments now, up 20% oil and gas, down 70% renewable energies oh not just with them either. a norwegian energy giant will cut its investment in half on renewables. what is this telling us? >> they have a business to run. and here at the epa, we are always concerned as it relates to insuring that americans have access to clean air, land and water. there are laws on the books. if these businesses are complying with the law, then we understand that they have businesses that they need to run. the american public spoke loud and clear last novemr that they want america to unleash energy dominance. the american public also understands that over the course of the last couple decades, emissions have gone down.

american innovation in our country has allowed energy production in the u.s. to be a lot better than a whole lot of other countries around the world. the american public spoke, we hear at epa heard loud and clear. we won't shame these companies. we understand they have a business to run. >> bill: some would say chalk one up for the consumer. the consumer decides whether they want your product or not. another question for you. you are saying you can cut 65% of the spending of the epa. what did you find and how do you do it? >> in 2024, epa spent tens of billions of dollars appropriated by congress. my message to congress is that in 2025, i want to spend tens of billions of less dollars. we don't need to be spending all that money that went through the epa last year. we can't afford it as a nation. we heard it during yesterday's cabinet meeting from president

trump and other members around the table. we have a deficit in this country that this administration is focused on insuring that we get towards a balanced budget. do it as quickly as possible. we don't waste a penny of the taxpayer dollars and we're making the public proud. that is a key part of that trump mandate the american public voted for. i as administrator of epa i'm saying to congress and the american public please don't send us tens of billions of dollars to spend this year. we don't want it. we don't need it. the american public needs it and we need a balanced budget. >> bill: how do you identify $20 billion if fraudulent spending in 30 days? where do you go to find all that? >> the first alarm that went off was in december when this biden epa political appointee was saying their administration was tossing gold bars off the titanic. with an eye towards getting themselves jobs at the recipient

ngos. $20 billion parked in an outside financial institution given to eight primary recipients. stacey abrams ngo received $2 billion even though they received $100 in 2023. a 5 billion amount of money given to one ngo, the former employer of the director of the greenhouse gas reduction fund. we've seen so many other examples of self-dealing, conflicts of interest, organizations that are unprepared to spend all this money and it says inside of the grant agreement they have 90 days to complete a training called how to develop a budget. how do you give an entity billions of dollars if they don't even know how to develop a budget and the u.s. government is acknowledging it? >> bill: fair point. why they made chatgpt. i joke. thank you for coming on. we'll follow it and see what kind of success you might have. lee zeldin, thank you, sir, thank you very much.

>> dana reads sports. >> dana: it was a wild finish between michigan state and maryland in men's college basketball last night. watch. >> no time-outs left for maryland. they have to go. gillespie for three. the win, oh, oh my goodness! they won it on the road. >> dana: half-court for the win. they had a buzzer beater from beyond half-court stealing a 58-55 win. michigan state has sole possession of first place in the big ten. conference tournament play begins in two weeks. that must mean it is almost march. >> bill: that's right. march madness is right around the corner. >> dana: don't gamble in your place of business. >> bill: hold it, hold it, hold it. one more time. all right. eight minutes before the hour. let's move on right now with a space race with china heats up. spacex launching a spacecraft to

survey the moon that may set the stage for future astronaut missions and we'll tell you all about it.

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>> three, two, one, mission and lift-off. >> bill: can't sleep on this stuff. middle of the night now. spacex rocket launching a spacecraft to the moon. what is this doing, jonathan? >> good morning to you, bill. texas based intuitive machines launched a lander on top of the spacex rocket. it will try to land near the lunar south pole that could be converted into breathable oxygen and hydrogen rocket fuel for future missions to mars. it is equipped with an ice drill carrying a small rover and

hopping rocket drone all exchanging high-speed data through the moon's first cellular network which nokia is developing for the next lunar astronauts. >> that time is very appreciateous. we don't want them to figure, set up and deploy the network. it will be self-optimizing in the future. >> bill: america wants to humans to the south pole before china gets there. it presents countries from encroaching on each other's activities there through a treaty. >> the reality is whoever gets their first even with little commercial probes or scientific investigations will be able to claim that territory is excluded and eventually develop the resources on it. >> columbia sportswear developed a therm nall protection by leveraging the private sector. nasa is able to survey potential