♪ >> brian: here we go. 7:00 a.m. on the east coast. monday, march 10th. this is "fox & friends." clean up on aisle five? democrats are starting to realize that the way they behaved at trump's address last week. not good. >> personally the way i reacted.

we are still finding our footing. >> ainsley: plus. a fiery scene after a plane crashes in the parking lot of a pennsylvania retirement home. we are going to tell you what happened. >> and the department of veterans affairs expected to slash thousand more jobs. democrats wanted you to think that's a bad thing. the secretary of veterans affairs doug collins sets the record straight. >> brian: "fox & friends" starts right now. your mornings are better with friends so get dressed. >> lawrence: so did you hear about this? the secret service shooting an armed man at the white house over the weekend. >> brian: this after the vice president j.d. vance and his daughter were followed by a group of protesters near their ohio home. >> ainsley: mark meredith has more. mark? >> president trump was not in washington when the shooting occurred early sunday. authorities believe the secret service decided to shoot this 27-year-old because they considered him a danger to the

public as they were throughout early in the morning. this all happened as they believe it was a suicide by cop attempt it. happened about two blocks away from the white house and is in an area heavily traveled even early in the morning. the suspect believed to be from indiana was in a parked car. the as the car approached brandished firearm and armed confrontation ensued during which shots were fired by our personnel. no secret service officers were hurt. and the last update we got the suspect remains in critical condition. vice president vance he, too, was out of town this weekend. but he encountered some protesters as he and his family were in cincinnati. this is video from saturday. vance decided to meet with some of these people pro-ukrainian group. vance posting afterwards spoke with the protesters trade a few minutes of conversation for them leaving my toddler alone. they agreed it was respectful confirmation. if you are chasing a 3-year-old as part of a political protest you are a blank person.

also over the weekend another protest at tesla dealership as elon musk's doge effort remains front and center. protests have been propping up all over the country. some lighting tesla charging stations on fire. comments made last night on his way back to d.c. the white house is trying to down play a confrontation musk had with cabinet leaders as they have been talking about some of the cuts impacting their departments. brian, lawrence, and ainsley, back to you guys. >> lawrence: thank you so much. >> ainsley: so interesting the liberals were so protest la and the evs and they wanted everyone to buy them. joe biden had mandates in place so had you to buy certain time period you had to buy one. now they hate him and protesting at the tesla dealerships. >> lawrence: apparently they don't really want to protect the environment anymore. nothings that changed with the design of the tesla. it's just the person's politics that's running the country, that's running the organization has

changed. i find it interesting though that they have been waiting for this fight to blow up with the cabinet though. i think it's totally okay. the president is overseeing what elon musk is doing. and then you got cabinet members oversee their own organizations and they have strong opinion as well. so you need these guys to duke it out and then the president to make the final decision. >> brian: right. there is no doubt about it. the elon musk is paying a big price with his -- he is now in the middle of the fray. as he was saying over the weekend, he goes they are doing to me what they do to trump. they are using the media to try to put narrative together to make me seem like a nazi sympathizer. he said he is really concerned about people listening to this nonstop, fake news about him and his approach and someone is going to try kill him. what they are trying to do is hurt him and his businesses and actually chanting we want clear

air. you idiots electric car. best bet for clean air. now they have to worry about his charging stations. all this type of nazi stuff spray painted. >> lawrence: from my understanding they had to deputize. he uses a security company gavin becker. famous security. have a lot of former military operators that work there. but the trump administration, the u.s. marshal service, which they do sometimes, had to deputize his security detail to protect him now. they can have more authority to likes federal government to travel with firearms everywhere. it's a major threat. >> ainsley: most every part of the tesla is american made. or the majority of it. more so than any other car he says in our own country. is he going to be live with larry kudlow on the fox business channel today at 4:00 in the afternoon. >> brian: i know they make a number of them in china, too.

china has their own electric car that they made for cut rates because they don't pay their labor force anything. and they are flooding europe with that. we do not let them here. might be in mexico. where do the democrats go from here. that's the common refrain last week after evidently behind closed doors hakeem jeffries told everyone what you guys did on tuesday really hurt us. and the way the perception with the signs i told you not. to say and did you it anyway. i'm not sure anyone listens to him. but it seems as though when asked that question by some friendly anchors, they have no answer. and that's like -- people like ro khanna and elissa slotkin. just listen to what they have been saying and listen to how they are approaching it. listen to the profanity. >> somebody slap me and wake me the [bleep] up. i'm ready to get on with it. >> if you could speak directly to elon musk what would you say? >> [bleep] off. >> [bleep] musk.

>> elon musk and his hackers don't know [bleep] about what it means to run a housing program. >> to think that elon musk or donald trump give a [bleep] about our public schools. >> [bleep] trump. >> i don't swear in public very well but we have to [bleep] trump. [cheers] >> lawrence: what are you guys doing? it just seems childish. there is nothing about policy. i just remember what was it 10 years ago when president trump got involved in politics, the narrative was a guy that uses this language, we cannot elect him as the president. we need decorum. we need return to normalcy. and then you hear these people. brian, you were talking about the report about hakeem jeffries apparently that didn't work because the next day during the committees, you had representatives almost being thrown out of the committees because they didn't know how to conduct themselves. i don't think he has any roll of his party right now.

>> ainsley: i think it's so low class. >> lawrence: yeah, it's trashy. >> ainsley: where is the civility? where is our grandparents' party. where is our grandparents' congress? they had differences but they didn't go on national television and shout things like that. where is the respect? at the end of the day, we are all americans. they should have stood for the little boy with cancer. they should have stood for the moms who lost their children or for the military or for the young man who was accepted into the military academy at west point and, yet, and lost his father. they should be standing for that some of the democrat are saying we recognize that. we realize we handled it wrong on tuesday when the president was addressing the joint congress. watch this. >> that was not a good look. we should have stood for the boy with cancer. you stand for the president of the united states it out of respect for the american people. i agree with senator fetterman that it's really about showing our heart. >> there is so much concern that

what you saw was sort of the emotion and wanting to be visible. it's not personally the way i reacted. we are still finding our footing. and i think you can't get better until you admit you have a problem. and for me that's one of the things that i think some of the new voices in the party have been annual tailgating about. >> i think the lack of a coordinated response to the state of the union was a mistake. that's why we lost the last election because we weren't razor focused. >> we focused too much time on disruptive behavior and the conduct of the democrats. that was strategic mistake. let's not make the story about us. let's make the story about what donald trump says and how we disagree with it and we squandered that opportunity. >> brian: tom suozzi who seat vacated by santos. he wants to be strong on the border and work with brian fitzpatrick. get a continuing resolution passed but need compromise.

you need 60 votes in the senate. talking about how they need to work together. i think guys like that can. bill maher brought this up other the weekend. is he listening to jazmine crocket who came out and said hey man dude this blank is whack. can you imagine barack obama saying something like that? the best advertisement for republicans, donald trump he knows it. is jazz manipulate crocket. is the whole left win the squad so way out to the left. loudest and gain the most attention is the democratic party unless they are going to stand up outside fetterman and put them not only put themselves up but put them -- cast them aside. >> lawrence: well, it looks like they're throwing a temper tantrum every single day. there has been no response to the open border crisis that was under joe biden and donald trump fix. they are standing with the criminal migrants that the president is deporting. they are still saying that grown men should be able to compete

against women in sports. they still have this position. they don't want any cuts to happen to all the waste, fraud, and abuse. they continue to argue against the process. but there has been zero response to some of the programs that have been funded. and so, it's not just a matter of their tone and their tenure and acting trashy on tv every single day. but what they stand for is not relatable at all to the public. >> ainsley: yeah. and bernie sanders is out there. he is having these rallies in different cities with bullhorns and he is standing in front of large crowds and stop ole geriatric tour. he was in michigan and wisconsin. watch this. >> we're up against a phenomenon that we have never seen and that is the big lie. the big lie is not just stretching the truth big lie is not just fibbing. the big lie is creating a

parallel universe is not just to push his right wing ideology. what they're trying to do is deflect attention away from the real issues, the very serious issues that the working class of this country is facing. >> brian: no one listens to him. same group of socialists fantasies. i wouldi would state this. best strategy easy. do what joe manchin and fetterman saying pick the issues like tom swayze talked about. thrilled what is happening at the border comprehensive immigration reform. fine. what can you deal with wonderig if you can put this in? have you thought about what we're going to do with the dreamers? then you start creating a dialogue. donald trump likes to create a dialogue. know people and see what going on. he has so much power in the republican party. if he sees a way forward on some of these complex bills, including the budget, i could see him working things out. changing the frame. because they know he is 4 and

done. and he does have the outside tom massie, who i'm not sure what he's doing. most people are listening to trump and the republican party. >> lawrence: i just think the democrats they have forgotten that they lost the last election. they speak in these absolute terms as if they won. and it's like the american people want this. i mean it was just two months ago where you guys lost and you said the same thing. >> ainsley: all the profanity just screaming against trump. what do you stand for? they haven't changed. >> lawrence: zero. >> ainsley: everything is just anti-trump. the rest of the country ready to move forward and they liked what trump was saying about the border. about trying to draw down inflation. would and we saw what joe biden brought to the table. they supported him. then we learned over the weekend that he is using auto pen. joe biden was using auto pen to sign his name. he was using an auto pen. >> brian: someone was using it. >> ainsley: who was in charge of our government. >> brian: for four years.

i love what senator kennedy said to me over the weekend. he said democrats seem determined to find out what it is like to be a jets fan. [laughter] just doing the wrong thing. >> ainsley: by the way i watched your show over the weekend. the two of us are going to be on the quiz. >> brian: did you see it? >> ainsley: yes. it was not fair you gave jimmy a, b, and d answers. you asked her the most blanket questions out of all the 50 states which is the state jimmy did something in. there are 50 different answers. then you gave her -- you said what is the -- what is the his best comedian. who is gave hit comedian. oh my gosh how many comedians are there? promise he you do a, b, c and d with us. >> brian: my theory with the co-host how well do you know each other? you got to figure that jimmy failla and kennedy hang out all the time. how could you not know who his

favorite comedian is. >> ainsley: you ask like really tough specific questions. >> lawrence: trying to stack the deck for herself. you feel bad and then you give her the easy questions and give me the hard questions. >> ainsley: i'm trying to help you too. i'm saying make it fair, do a, b, c, and d brian multiple choice? >> ainsley: out of all the 50 states which one did he perform in march? >> lawrence: i'm saving this tape and brian, if you give me harder questions as a result of this conversation, i'm never doings the show again. >> brian: one week. study this woman. her moves. her nuances. everything about her. >> lawrence: i will say, hey, sean, can you give me some advice. >> ainsley: don't ask him that. don't ask him that. >> lawrence: i have a cheat sheet in a mentor tell me all the stuff i need to know. >> ainsley: carley you have done this. >> carley: i did it with todd. so much fun. >> ainsley: multiple choice or

was it difficult? >> carley: it was a mix. i don't know if there were multiple choice. brian, you have three other co-host. so i propose i moderate a co-host quiz with the four of you. >> brian: would you do that? >> carley: absolutely. i would love that. >> ainsley: you need to moderate and make sure it's fair. >> carley: moderator and judge as well. >> ainsley: he has his dry erase board and he wrote kennedy wins. we were all la laughing. you can't even read his handwriting. >> brian: i will say this if i do phone a friend the bad thing is you call the same person. >> ainsley: no. i would call momma jones. that's ohio would call. the woman who knows you best. >> lawrence: that's spot on. >> carley: that would be amazing. watch "one nation" on sunday to see who wins. >> ainsley: not this sunday the next sunday. we are on in two weeks. >> lawrence: free advertisement in like five minutes. >> ainsley: you need us all for

your ratings. >> carley: he is doing just fine. >> brian: who wouldn't? >> carley: the faa is investigating after a single engine plane crash that burst into flames in the parking lot of a pennsylvania retirement home yesterday. five people were taken to the hospital as a result of that crash. their conditions are currently unknown. all five that were injured were passengers on the plane. no one on the ground was hurt. as authorities try to figure out what caused that crash. norad intercepting a civilian plane fly notice a restricted zone over mar-a-lago's home over the weekend. military officials used flares to signal to the pilot before escorting the plane out with an f-16 fighter jet. since president trump's inauguration just seven weeks ago, norad says it has responded to more than 20 tracks of interest near mar-a-lago. and today is national napping day. so if you just woke up. go back to sleep. just for a little bit and then

turn back on the tv and watch "fox & friends." lost an hour of sleep due to daylight saving time last week. peter doocy asked the president if he would get rid of daylight saving time and take a listen to what he had to say. >> this should be the easiest one of all but it's a 50/50 i. and if something is a 50/50 issue it's harvard to get excited about it. i assume people would like to have more light later. but some people want to have more light earlier because they don't want to take their kids to school in the dark. it's something i can do but a lot of people like it one way. a lot of people like it the other way. it's very even. >> carley: national napping day was created in 1999 to spotlight the health benefits of naps. i guess the show is now just on me, guys. because our three co-hosts are partaking in this very holiday. >> lawrence: i guess we should. >> ainsley: brian doesn't know how to nap. he has never napped a day in his life. >> brian: i are never napped.

i am surprised how many adults tell me they nap. i am shocked. >> lawrence: it's just not your think. >> brian: i don't think adults should be napping. lawrence lawrence don't do that. >> ainsley: you don't what if you wake up at 3:00 in the morning and your kids come home after school and they need you. then maybe if you can get a little nap in, once or twice a week it could be helpful. >> lawrence: he is saying because he is always at work and he doesn't have the consequences of dealing with the kid and all of this? >> brian: i think nodding off accidently on a train or something is a little different than guys, i'm shutting the lights and going to my room for a half hour. >> lawrence: brian, i have seen you nod off on the show before. >> brian: you cannot say that. >> lawrence: 1 hearse%. >> ainsley: did you mess up my hair? will you fix me, carley? i need a little help. oh, back here. >> carley: yeah, yeah. >> brian: meanwhile back to the show as scheduled. defendants defending bureaucracy as other departments workforce is getting doged. >> they are going to gut the

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>> brian: latest efforts to slash government waste the department of veterans affairs looking to cut thousands of jobs and democrats do not like it. >> they are going to gut the department of veterans affairs, jeopardizing the health and well-being of millions of veterans. >> i go to the v.a. myself i see every day the waiting lists, you know, the long lines to get an appointment. all of that is going to get worse. >> cutting the v.a., the proposals i have seen, are going to hurt service to veterans. so let's agree that that's a bad idea, bipartisan. it's a bad idea to do that. >> brian: really? but the administration says this move is necessary to get better. to say get more efficient. and to get better treatment for the veterans. secretary of veterans affair doug collins joins us now still serving in the reserves. mr. secretary, your thoughts

about the democrats cut back at the v.a. >> let's take off what ms. loan green said. agree on something. for the past 10 years the gao has reported that the v.a. healthcare has been in high risk. in other words, high risk list for not only the possibility of, you know, fraud, waste, and abuse but also in patient quality. patient care. this has been going on for 10 years. it's interesting to me looking at wait times. these are things that have preceded me come in. i have been here four weeks. no solutions being proposed. president trump brought generational change to d.c. let's look at everything. what we are looking at is if our system is on a high risk list. if we have had issues and all that the government has decided to do lately put money or people at something. maybe we need to ask the better question is are we using our resources wisely and making sure our department is taking care of the veteran, which is our only responsibility. >> brian: so the 80,000 number that has come out, is that

number already done? have you ever decided who to let go? >> no. that is a goal that was put out -- president trump and opm look at reduction in force across government. that is a goal, our target. that's what we are going to begin to look at. please, before democrats or anybody else start on this path. this is going to be a deliberative process that's going to take time. include career v.a. employees and senior beingsives. all across bringing in people if need be take a look are we being efficient? i can't get over the fact for 10 years the v.a. and specialisted on the gao high risk list but yet we have people in congress yelling don't do anything. well, let me just say what they are saying when they don't want to do anything. they are saying keep it the same. keep this on its high risk list. keep us in an area in which we are not making improvements in veterans care. all not going to stand for that make changes that help our veterans and put us in a position to better be efficient in what we have. >> brian: the cuts h have not bn made yet.

>> no. >> brian: you think you could make it better leaning it out change maybe job descriptions and becoming more efficient. will you use doge in that process? >> they are always -- look, we have v.a. employees that are working with our doge liaison and contracts and organizational structure. this has not been looked at in a long time. mentor minds senator johnny eickson head of of the v.a. made a comment on 8 years ago. the v.a. was not money and resources was actually organizational structures. i they it's really interesting for me to take a look at on organization that's grown rapidly but yet still has issues and still has problems taking care of our veterans. we should not have a veteran have to call the senator or a congressman to get the help they need. that's a failure on our part. and we're not doing things the same way anymore. we will make sure we are put the money and resources towards our veterans and getting the help they need. >> brian: here is what president trump said about elon and doge yesterday and the democratic attacks that have followed,

watch. >> the democrats say that elon musk and doge are overstepping their bounds. you are right. what elon musk and doge has been able to uncover is unbelievable. half of us did not even realize. >> and stop there look. stop there what you just said what he has done is unbelievable. no. you could add well what about -- he has found hundreds of mrs. of dollars worth of fake contracts. that's a big thing. no, he has done a great job. he is paying a price for it. >> brian: you agree? >> yes. i think, let me give to you with figures. democrats have talked about how the care -- the cuts have occurred in the probationary employee layoffs. that's less than one half of our workforce laid off. i don't think that's actually -- and especially non-front facing personnel. nonessential personnel in which by the way if they happen to be caught up and they wasn't there san exemption that they could come back to work. their supervisors chose not to use that exemption process enemy of these cases. also in our contracts. which the team has helped us find. we have only investigated 2% of

our contracts at the v.a. and yet found over $98 million. and when he look at this as we go forward. you know, going forward. 980 million. i apologize. it was a little bit more. $980 million. almost a billion dollars cutting now to put back into patient care and working with our benefits. and we have almost 1.8 billion total of cracks that are just canceled going forward. that's only 2%, brian. and when you look at our process going forward, that's the kind of thing that we need make sure the v.a. is efficient. >> brian: 27% of your workforce are veterans. i know you are going to take special care to make sure if you have to let somebody go, they have already served the country, it's got to be for the right reason, right? that's the process going forward. deliberative going forward. do everything we need to do to make v.a. helpful. >> brian: veterans affairs being torn up. put an email out to doug collins. he will let you know what is going on. 08,000 is a goal. hns in the been done.

congratulations on the job. >> thanks, brian. appreciate it. >> brian: check in with senior meteorologist janice dean for our fox weather forecast. janice? >> janice: good morning brian and everyone. i have good news for you if you like spring like temperatures. because they are on their way. this is head of the next winter storm coming later this week. we will enjoy it while it's here. 76 is what the temperature is going to be in omaha, nebraska. that's a record for them. 62 in fargo. 67 in saint cloud. breaking dozens of records if we hit those highs today. looking good in new york. sunshine. potential for showers and thunderstorms across the southeast and florida. next system moves into the west coast. this is going to be our weather maker midweek into the latter part of the week as it brings in this area of low pressure. and from the rockies. bringing potential for hail, damaging winds and even some tornadoes. that's something we're going to have to watch. fox weather.com all over it. there are your potential record highs again today. do you know what? i'm going to continue to say it's going to be nice out and

enjoy it for the rest of the week because winter, you know, it's march, sometimes winter still happens. and we could have winter storms but, brian, get out and enjoy the temperatures today. >> brian: soon we can take our sleeves off and people can see our deltoids. it's going to be edges sighting. >> janice: i was going to use that but i'm glad you ended with it. >> brian: i know you always use deltoids. >> janice: i love you. >> brian: i think you mean it this time. >> janice: of course i do. >> brian: president trump wants to ditch the education department and have states take the lead. talk to one state superintendent who is doing just that. all she talks about since we saved hundreds by bundling our home and auto insurance. ♪

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his worry. jeff paul joins us live from rome with the latest. jeff? >> ainsley, pope francis is now well into his fourth week in the hospital where he once again yesterday missed his weekly blessing. but there are some positive signs that his recovery is now headed in a positive direction. in fact, the vatican using the word improving for the very first time when describing his condition in the hospital. the pope has remained stable for several consecutive days and officials point to a good response to his current treatment. he has been working in recent days, has no fever and his blood work looks good. while it is unclear how long he will be in the hospital. pope francis recently issued a message thanking those who have looked after both him and others who are sick. he says we need this michelle of tenderness to accompany those who faced a verse city in order to bring a little light into the night of pain. it is a message many volunteers at st. peters square are taking to heart. >> we are particularly sorry but we hope he will get better soon.

it seems there is some positive news so we'll pray for him that he will get better soon. >> pope is so stable as opposed to doing the daily updates the vatican is going to be do didding them every other day. with that said we didn't get update yesterday, we are expecting one later today. ainsley? >> ainsley: poor thing. four weeks in the hospital that's a long time. i'm sure is he ready to go home. i'm glad he is getting a little better and stable. thank you so much. we will continue to follow that story. president trump and his administration moving to dismantle the department of education. and return federal dollars and decisions back to the states. >> we want to bring the schools back to the states. because we have the worst, literally we have the worst education department and education in the word. we are worked at the bottom of the list and yet we are number one when it comes to cost purr pupil. >> since the department of education was established in 1980 we have spent over a trillion dollars to see our

scores continue to go down? we are not doing something right and it's time to change it. >> ainsley: our next guest is ready to work alongside them. ellen weaver joins us now. hey, ellen, thank you so much. >> hey, good morning, ainsley. how about those women gamecocks? >> i know, i'm so proud of them. been following them i met you when i was in south carolina. you said i'm excited what this means for our state and states all across our country. tell us why you support donald trump dismantling the department of education and what it would mean for not only south carolina but each state individually? >> i'm telling you our states are ready to i can at that time ball and run with it. especially here in south carolina and in states all across the south and the country. we have state chiefs just like me who are focused on the fundamentals. we know we have to use the science of reading and phonics to make sure our kids can read. we have to focus on basic math and we have to teach civics that

engages our students in our shared american story and teaches them to love our country and to appreciate the many wonderful blessings of living here. and so, because of that, we have been hamstrung by overreach and red tape in washington just about box checking and compliance. give us the flexibility. send those federal funds back to the united states and let us determine how we can best spend them to support students here. >> ainsley: ellen, you told me you have a coalition of state superintendents who agree with you, many of them across the country. y'all signed and sent a letter to linda mcmahon the secretary of the department of he had its occasion. what exactly did it say in that letter? what do you want? >> the main thing that we want is flexibility. ainsley. we know that federal funds have come with federal shackles for far too long. dictates out of washington that have felt more like a dictatorship than partnership. i was so excited to the sea the

tone that secretary mcmahon has taken in the early days of her job. the memo that she put out to the u.s. department employees saying we are going to partner with parents. going to empower local leaders, teachers in the classroom to do what they know is best for the student in their state. we want flexibility. particularly we would love to see the administration work with congress to consolidate all of those title funds that come with so many different programmatic requirements and really by the time they get down to us they are so fractured that they are not as impactful as we know they could be to support students with special needs, low income students. we say untie our hands and let us do at the state level what we know best how to do. >> ainsley: you were telling me the title needs passed by congress that will still be in place if parents are worried about low income or special need students you say we don't need the department of education because of all that red tape so students can in the classroom.

let's talk about the students. south carolina is lagging behind fourth grade on pardon graduate labor relations with that eighth grade lagging behind a little bit. what would we need to do to improve those numbers for our students? you told me, too. the south is making gains. we still have a long way to go. we are focused on reading and math projects and phone-free schools. >> that's exactly right. really, ainsley, it's just about getting back to the basics. the way that school was the way you and eye were in school and been for generations. we know you have to focus on those fundamentals. reading is essential to all other learning and for too long our students have been taught to read using the strategy of guessing. and we know that that's just not effective. we have to get back to teaching phonics. so we saw what happened in mississippi with the mississippi miracle when they got back to the science of reading we're

focused on that in south carolina. i'm confident if we build a strong foundation in those early grades as students progress through the k-12 jo12 journey ty will continue to improve and we will see improvements in eighth grade scores as well as the fourth grade scores. ainsley we have a lot of poverty here in the south. i know you are well aware of that. poverty is often correlated with academic achievement. when you actually adjust scores for poverty you see that the south is far outstripping many other areas of the country. i truly believe we are not focused on woke ideologies and so many of the divisive distractions that the biden white house was trying to push down on us and we remain focused on our core mission which is ensuring that students have foundational skills. >> ainsley: i know you talk tour governor regularly. you are an elected official but you do meet with him regularly and all gotten dei and wokeness

made sure that stays out of the schools in south carolina. thank you so much ellen weaver for coming on with us. >> my pleasure to be here, ainsley go. gamecocks. >> ainsley: the accused mastermind of the abbey gate attack killing 13 service members will appear in court today. what we can expect on that story. ketamine is becoming more and more mainstream. do the benefits outweigh the risk? dr. siegel on that. ♪ it has a built-in solution that breaks down dirt on contact. plus, it's 360-degree swivel head cleans up along baseboards and even behind the toilet. bye, bye bucket. with the swiffer powermop. in 10 years, lisa schneider will have an amazing second act. thanks to career reskilling courses from aarp. to help make sure her income lives as long as she does. the younger you are, the more you need aarp.

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>> ainsley: happening today the man suspected of plots the abbey gate terror attack in 2021 due to appear in courtroom in alexandria a virginia. president trump promising last week's joint address to congress that the terrorist will face justice. >> tonight i am pleased to announce we have just apprehended the top terrorist responsible for that atrocity is he here to face the swift sword of american justice the preliminary hearing is set to be 2:00 p.m. eastern time. moarson after fast moving brush fires tore through hundreds of acres on long island.

the fires prompting a state of emergency and leaving two firefighters hurt before crews were able to gain control. thankfully firefighters are now in good condition. the fires were fueled by dry conditions and gusty winds. but officials are still questioning whether those fires started naturally or by, quote: nefarious origin. all workers with the u.s. department of health and human services have been reportedly given a $25,000 voluntary buyout offer in exchange for their resignation. reports show the offer went out in a department wide email giving all 80,000 employees until this friday to respond. and comes as part of the trump administration's mass cost-cutting efforts. how about this so funny here? wisconsin police officer delivering a frothy treat to a 4-year-old boy who called 911 on his mother for eating his ice cream. the toddler telling officers, quote: my mom is bad. come and get my mommy. ha ha. when they arrived the boy had a change of heart and did not want

his mother taken to jail. officers then returned the next day with ice cream in hand. those are your headlines. lawrence, how funny is that? >> lawrence: i think he has a case she did steal. >> carley: 4 years old and somebody takes your ice cream it must feel criminal. >> lawrence: it was criminal she stole his ice cream. >> story remember forever. >> lawrence: ketamine drug more plan for severe depression with predictable clinical value and almost $06 billion by 2023. the drug comes with risk. one survey finds significant in recreational use. also the drug that led to the overdose death of friends actor matthew perry. fox news senior medical analyst dr. marc siegel is here to explain the drug's benefits and the risk they said they are

ahead of the science where do you fall. >> $60.9 billion industry. clinics springing up across the country. hundreds of them. i think it's a great drug for anesthesia, which is what it was developed for in the 1970s. it has less side effects than other general athletics. athleticanesthetics. better than shock therapy for many patients to keep them out of the hospital and medical use. that's severe depression. these clinics are more casual use. and remember, lawrence, this is off label. it is n not aby the fda for thi. when doctors prescribe it for people to mild to moderate depression or people who want to have a re-set and want -- causing euphoria and causes an out-of-body experience. that's using it in a way that hasn't really been proven yet.

they say they are ahead of the curve but they may not be talking about side effects. >> lawrence: some of them memory lost, elevated blood pressure, breathing difficulties. combination and judgment. addiction as well. i guess the question would be what is an alternative to ketamine? >> which is great question. and the answer would be and you know, you could channel r.f.k. jr. on this. what is your lifestyle? how did you get here? are you using this because you want to be a leader? you want to be a performance -- are you getting this because you want, again, to get out of mild depression where maybe exercise and lifestyle changes can get you there? there are certainly other medications we use, antidepressants we would use before this. this is a severe treatment for people that really need a big change. and i'm for it. but, again, not the casual use. and as usual, when something comes along that we think is good. it's often overused in these gray areas. >> lawrence: who are the people typically using ketamine.

what is the issue that they have internally that they result to that? >> people that aren't happy. people that are in a malaise. people that have anxiety or depression. they are not quite functioning up to par. they want to get to the next level. or people that have memories that bother them. remember, you said it effects memory, and it does. you maybe want to get away from a memory. that's why i want to really carefully trained psychiatrist involved in this, not just a doctor that is starting a clinic or is using it kind of off label again. it's a restrictive drug. so it is useful to get away from bad memory, protest traumatic stress disorder. more promising in that area needs study. >> lawrence: a lot to see when it comes to this study. a lot of people using it. >> of course, it also feeds the illicit use part too which is bad. >> lawrence: great to see you. likewise. a 1-year-old accused of killing a police officer in new jersey. state laws prevent him from being tried as an adult.

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