the judge noted that konanki's investigation continues. a source says all the signs point to an accidental drowning. yesterday konanki's parents say they believe their daughter drowned. >> both of the authorities showed us about the incident and they clarified the -- [inaudible]. it is with deep sadness and a heavy --

>> bill: a nightmare. the search continues for konanki here on land. >> bill: i know those parents have other children and trying to stay strong for them. we send a prayer their way today. thank you, bryan llenas. >> there are people in your own party saying it is time for you to go. no longer trust your leadership and want somebody else. what do you say in your own party? >> i'm the best leader for the senate. >> i think you and caved. i think you caved. i don't think you showed the fight this party needs right now. >> i would say no one wants to fight more than me. you have to fight smart. i'm a leader. sometimes you have to receive the danger that might be a little bit down the road, weeks or months, and stand up for what's right. i knew i would get flack. >> dana: chuck schumer playing defense doing damage control. this could take a while. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: i thought the book tour

was canceled. >> dana: he broke my view. >> bill: chuck schumer. he is facing backlash from his own party after voting with republicans in the end after he urges democrats to buck that trend. this was to avoid a government shutdown last week. some are questioning his leadership and calling for the minority leader to step on aside highlighting the democratic party's deep divide today. >> dana: aishah hasnie is live in washington, d.c. >> we remember this, right, with joe biden. the trickle, trickle. let's wait and see what happens here. a lot of these conversations are going on behind closed doors privately. now there is a public suggestion for schumer to go. it came from congressman glen ibeh. he did it at a town hall in maryland last night and wait until you hear the applause.

>> hakim met the moment. schumer did not. he has done a lot of great things but it might be time for senate democrats to pick new leadership as we move forward. >> schumer has been on a redemption tour. former speaker nancy pelosi said she supported him and jeffries. herself came with a brutal dig here. >> i myself don't give away anything for nothing. i think that's what happened. >> yikes. democrats have been holding town halls all over the country to try to shift the topic back to president trump. his tax cuts, medicaid. doesn't seem to be working here. people are angry, dana. >> dana: channel it somewhere else. thank you so much. for more on this caroline

downey, a national review staff writer and -- the governor of illinois is also on the 2028 i want to be president train. here is what he said. >> we have to take any opportunity where we have leverage in order to stand up and fight. it is to get compromise from this ridiculously, you know, quiet congress that goes along with whatever donald trump and elon musk are telling them. there was a real opportunity for us to stand up and speak out and to protect the people who we stand up for. i'm disappointed about what happened. >> dana: easy for a governor to say who had no skin in the game. >> there is a republican trifecta. there is only so much the democratic congress can do. the mob revolt against schumer is astounding. eaten alive for avoiding a shut

down by government activists who don't want the government to trim down. how little leverage. so little leverage they are clinging to the filibuster, which i was told was a relic of the jim crow era? that being said if i was the democrats now i would say maybe schumer should be primaried. it doesn't mean you can rally your caucus effectively and not capitolizing on the moment the activists think he should. >> bill: this boiled the water on the view on tuesday. >> the republican party is a different kettle of fish than it used to be and why we're fighting them so hard. they are controlled by a small group of wealthy, greedy people. you know what their attitude is? i made my money all by myself. how dare your government take my money from me. i don't want to pay taxes. or i built my company with my bare hands, how dare your

government tell me how i should treat my customers, the land and water that i own or my employees. they hate government. >> bill: i don't know. go for it. >> i guess he is having a bad week with democrats and have a bad week with working class votes, small business owners. the issue is that democrats don't have a central message. they don't have any appeal with their old bread and butter working class voters, middle class people. people willing to pay taxes if they think that the government is using them correctly. they haven't been seeing that from leaders like the democrats. it's why democrats lost in 2025 and why they are having to scramble and not in a position to negotiate a cr. so that was a huge mistake. he should have stuck with his message. >> bill: this is why doge is popular with republicans. they want their money to be used more effectively. >> not just republicans. >> dana: like 75% of americans are saying that, too.

caroline, one of the things that has happened republican lawmakers are reacting to mocking hard working taxpayers for wanting to keep their own money. you can imagine some of these people like pat harrigan you know it's bad when whoopee gold erg wants him to stop talking. it will end up in every republican ad in every democrat that schumer tries to protect and might lose more seats. >> a perfect attack ad for the republicans. what a way to stay in the political wilderness but decrying the working class, but tax cuts which unleashed american prosperity in his first term. but i think what that shows that clip of schumer, he is trying to make an overtour to the progressive activists. they think he should be replaced by someone closer to bernie

sanders. the bernie sanders tax the rich coming out to fight the elders. >> bill: they have elon in their crosshairs. their mood toward schumer his pop lair teev is hovering between elon musk and bola virus. >> the irony is democrats want to present themselves as a resisting party. resisting what we don't know. what schumer did was effectively avoid a situation, if you go into shutdown, it is the democrats blamed for it, number one. number two, the white house and office of budget and management that gets to choose who is furloughed and who isn't. democrats are wore eft about playing into musk's hands but a shutdown would have given the trump administration the power to say who is working and not for a period of time. >> dana: this wasn't even a radical thing. it was keeping the government going the way it was.

thanks for being here, girls. >> bill: ladies day on wednesday. good to see you both. let's move to california now. governor newsom there. his dream becoming a taxpayer nightmare after the migrant healthcare he promised the blowing a massive hole in that state's budget. william la jeunesse is on it to explain it. good morning. what's up? >> good morning, bill. over the last five years california democrats have given free taxpayer funded healthcare to illegal immigrants even as republicans warned the state couldn't afford it, governor newsom ignored their advice. >> universal healthcare for all regardless of pre-existing condition. regardless of the ability to pay and regardless of your immigration status. >> originally the state provided coverage only to migrant children. 40 million. after expanding the program to all illegal immigrants it now costs more than $8 billion a year for 1.6 million undocumented enrollees. last week he was forced to

borrow another $3 billion to bail out the program. >> gavin has become the degenerate brother-in-law who squanders all his money and keeps coming back asking for another loan. >> republicans say the state can't afford it. poverty and homeless rates highest in the u.s. and unaffordable housing. money better spent on wildfire prevention. with one in ten workers illegally seven in ten who work in agriculture providing those who need medical care is the right thing to do. >> what the state of california said these are human beings. they get sick, they get hurt, they get diseases and so the emergency room is the absolute worst place to provide effective healthcare. >> here is the amazing thing. almost 40% of california's 39 million residents are on medical.

democrats run the state, bill. budgets are about choices. this is a choice they made. back to you. >> bill: you have your hands full with that one. thank you in last today. talk soon. >> they want to kill me because i'm stopping their fraud. and they want to hurt tesla because we're stopping this terrible waste and corruption in the government. >> dana: musk reacting as tesla facilities continue to face arson attacks. how the justice department is working to hunt down those responsible. >> extraordinary moment. his space company brought him t two stranded astronauts. >> dana: chief justice john roberts appearing to rebuke president trump and republicans. what the president had to say about that. >> president trump: he didn't mention my name. many people called for the impeachment of this judge. i don't know who the judge is. radical left. obama appointed.

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>> splash down, crew nine back on earth. [cheers and applause] >> bill: this is florida sunshine, isn't it? what are we doing living here? >> dana: we're working. >> bill: i get that. but you see this and you wonder -- >> dana: you want to live in the middle of the ocean? >> bill: so beautiful to watch. a bluebird day. >> dana: i never heard that. >> bill: triumphant moment for the country as the u.s. welcomed two stranded astronauts. they're back on earth. technical malfunctions on the starliner forced them to extend a gilligan's island eight-day trip turned into nine months.

president trump crediting elon musk with their safe return. >> president trump: when i came in office, i said elon, we have to get them out. do you have a rocket ship handy? how many people have a rocket? biden left them up. he abandoned them. we could have done it sooner. he didn't. now they're coming back. think of it. elon is able to do that with his genius and people that hate it. >> bill: musk says he offered to bring back the astronauts earlier. the biden administration turned him down. the biden team says they scheduled this around september but why they waited until march, i don't know. there is that and then this out of vegas. let's roll. >> this was a targeted attack against a tesla facility. we don't believe there is any further threat to the general public. however, as a precaution like we do on many of these incidents increased police presence at

tesla locations in the valley. >> dana: the f.b.i. is investigating an attack on a tesla facility. several cars set on fire and only the latest in a wave of violent incidents targeting teslas across the country. you covered one last week for us and you are now in denver. >> law enforcement says in las vegas this latest vandal attack on tesla did have the hallmarks of terrorism. the las vegas police department is on the hunt for the suspect who threw molotov cocktails to firebomb some of the cars and also shot a gun several times into different tesla vehicles. they also spray painted the word resist on a building. the f.b.i. says it is too soon in the investigation to say whether the las vegas incident is connected to the others around the country. >> there has been reports of attacks in multiple states ranging from everything from

graffiti and vandalism to targeted attacks where people are using firearms, firebombing a vehicle, arson. it ranges. it runs the gamut. the message is for people to be vigilant but not fearful. >> look at this map. tesla locations in at least 11 states have been heavily damaged by protest vandals. last night attorney general pam bondi addressed the incidents in a statement saying in part quote, the swarm of violent attacks on tesla property is nothing short of domestic terrorism. department of justice has already charged several perpetrators with that in mind. we'll continue investigations that impose severe consequences on those involved in these attacks. including those operating behind the scenes to coordinate and fund these crimes. for example, two suspects in colorado now face federal charges for damaging cars and property with insend rear devices and spray paint at a dealership in loveland. they struck multiple times over

the last two months. tesla ceo elon musk shared his theory what is behind all this on hannity. >> there are larger forces at work. who is funding and coordinating it? this is crazy. i've never seen anything like this. >> dana, many -- not just the dealership. owners say their cars and trucks have been vandalized in parking lots. owners are being verbally a costed by folks yelling at them. they are trying to get where they need to go. >> dana: it is disturbing to say the least. thank you. >> bill: want to bring in clay travis. good morning to you. pam bondi calls it domestic terrorism. apparently the word resist was spray painted at some of these dealerships. the one in vegas. musk says, play it guys, number one last night. here he is with sean again. >> i think they are getting desperate. the reason we're seeing this extreme amount of hatred and

violence is because we're succeeding in getting rid of corruption and waste. if we weren't succeeding in getting rid of corruption and waste they wouldn't care. but we are succeeding. >> bill: i think it's part of it. i think the other part is just the association that he has made with trump has made him a target. keep in mind, biden kept him at arm's length to protect the unions. and musk, who invented the darn thing, you know, never got an invitation. go ahead. >> bill, this is crazy. look, elon musk as you guys just showed brought back astronauts who had been stuck in space. they were supposed to be there eight days. if you told me i had to go somewhere for eight days and had to stay for nine months i would lose my mind on earth much less in space. credit for the astronauts for keeping calm and cool. look, elon was the climate change hero only a few years ago

for everybody on the left for reinventing the way we propel automobiles. now he has the ability to send space ships to space better than nasa despite the fact they have a 70 plus year head start. he also has been a huge proponent for free speech with his purchase of twitter x and bill, now he is trying to save every taxpayer money and people on the left are so deranged when it comes to donald trump that they have decided to attack these tesla vehicles. here is what i would say. i am doing this myself. yesterday i told my wife i think we should buy a tesla. i'm not a huge car guy but i respect to such a degree what elon musk is willing to do for this country when it comes to space and when it comes to vehicles, when it comes to free speech, when it comes to trying to save every taxpayer money, i'm one, you are one, dana is one. huge percentage of the people out there listening. i can't believe we would allow

people to attack him in this way. pam bondi is right. it is domestic terrorism. i think people with the resource evers when it comes to the vehicles they will choose, i will make the choice and buying one of these to support elon because i appreciate everything he is doing for the country. >> bill: he is like moth to the flame right now. senator mark kelly. i like him. i don't get it, all right, but this is what he is doing. >> i think it is time to get rid of him. elon musk kind of turned out to be [bleep] and i don't want to be driving a car built and designed by [bleep]. here i am with my new ride, chevy. good old chevy tahoe. here in washington, d.c. got one of these in tucson as well. this one was made by union labor, united auto workers in arlington, texas. it was good to buy union cars, incredibly reliable. >> bill: the catch, tahoe is not

an electric vehicle. they tried making a hybrid 11 years ago and it failed. and now you have this. i mean, the giant gas guzzler, contrary to the entire movement over the past 20 years. >> this is totally what happens, right? people lose control of all of their mental capacities when they act entirely based on emotion. i'm sure mark kelly is not a complete moron but this was a completely moronic decision if he cares about the climate at all by their own logic. he bought an electric vehicle to try to help the climate and replaced it with a gas guzzling s.u.v. a sign of how much elon musk has broken left winger's brains in conjunction with donald trump. they're now buying gas guzzling s.u.v. because of electric vehicles because musk is trying to save taxpayers too much money?

i just -- so many of these positions that the democrat party are taking, i know you and dana talked about it, bill. all time record low approval with cnn and msnbc. this single week, right? the lowest going back to 1990 and 1992. it's because of decisions like these. reasonable americans see this for how ridiculous it is. >> bill: thank you, sir. >> good luck with the brackets. >> bill: you, too, bring on the madness. >> dana, great jobs with the securities and exchange commission tweet. it was perfect. >> dana: thanks. >> president trump: they came through an open border and making millions of dollars killing people and destroying people's lives. that's a presidential thing. we are supposed to be getting them out or getting them brought to justice. >> dana: president trump doubling down. the white house faces mounting challenges from courts across

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>> dana: sweeping new ice operations leading to the arrest of dozens of illegal aliens in kentucky. acts arrested 81 illegal immigrants, 25 of them facing charges like illegal possession of firearms and illegal possession of controlled substances. let's go to north carolina. ice arrested 24 people in charlotte. that operation included two with alleged ties to the violent ms-13 gang. >> bill: president trump charging forward with his agenda despite multiple legal roadblocks popping up in his path. >> good morning, bill. a barrage of lawsuits have judges lining up to try to knock down the president's executive authority. the latest u.s. district judge, a biden appointee blocking

trump's order barring transgender people from openly serving in the military calling it unconstitutional and wrote this. the cruel irony is thousands of transgender service members have sacrificed, some risking their lives to insure the equal protection rights the military ban seeks to deny them. she delayed the order from taking effect until friday given the trump administration time to appeal as she is drawing criticism online from some who feel she is trying to overrule a commander-in-chief's determination over what constituents military readiness. a conservative who goes cynical writes to win is a federal district judging go to rule it is -- white house deputy chief of staff stephen miller reacted saying district court judges have now decided they are in command of the armed forces. is there no end to this madness? this comes as a federal judge,

obama pointy, seeks to block efforts to shut down usiad ruling that too is unconstitutional. as president trump vows to fight it. >> president trump: we'll be appealing it. i guarantee we'll be appealing it. we have rogue judges destroying our country. >> there is more. another ruling a federal judge temporarily blocked the epa's attempt to recoup climate grants. >> bill: on it rolls. nice to see you in d.c. thanks. >> do you have faith that the supreme court ultimately will rule in your favor? >> president trump: i do. the job of getting people out of our country that are murderers, absolutely the worst people, drug lords. we are supposed to be getting them out or brought to justice. >> would you defy a court order? we all know that. >> i never did defy a court order. >> you wouldn't in the future. >> president trump: you can't do

that. no. we have very bad judges. >> dana: pushing back against a judge ordering stopping deportation. they face roadblocks from the court trying to enact its agenda. joining us is andrew cherkowski. the brief the uclu filed. if the president can designate a group as illegal aliens there is no limit who can be sent to a prison or any limit how long they'll remain there. will that be persuasive. >> it's the president's job to control and defend the borders of the united states of america and needs to be able to execute that. aclu has picked this of all due process cases to throw their weight behind when there is all sorts of issues domestically we need to be concerned about. president trump is facing this court order as well as an unprecedented number of other court orders. i think ultimately this case as well as many of those cases need

to make their way to the supreme court and the supreme court needs to articulate exactly where the article two powers start and end. the president has to be able to engage in war, for example. needs to be able to engage in foreign types of combat. in the united states we need to have the president be able to protect us from that. i think the president has a high degree of authority to execute on that. if that means that these individuals aren't getting the normal course of due process that even normal illegal aliens might get, so be it. that's the role of the president. that's a political issue, foreign policy issue and he is well within his right to do it. >> bill: this is a district judge, right? i think we found 677 district judges in america. does that sound right to you? extraordinary. blew my mind. i thought there were a couple dozen, not 677. >> dana: big country.

>> bill: what time did the plane take off and leave u.s. airspace and what time did it land and subject solely to proclamation transfer, how many people aboard solely on the basis of proclamation? does a district judge have the authority to get those answers? should a district judge pursue that? >> the judge is looking for evidence whether his order was violated or not by the administration. there is a historical debate about whether the president actually can be even held in contempt by a court or whether the court really has the authority to take certain actions against the executive branch or the president. the president for his part has said and said on laura ingraham last night he will follow court orders. his intention is to follow court orders. sometimes when you have the bam, bam type of transactions where the judge is ruling one thing while there is an expedited action going on, those things

may overlap a little bit. i don't know what the judge's intent is. i think he is looking to see if he should hold somebody in contempt or taking action against somebody for violating his order. there are national security interests at play, though. so there has to be a lot of sensitivity that we're not transitioning the executive authority to the courts to interfere with what the president needs to be doing. >> dana: just in practice in the meantime if president trump and laura ingraham's interview says there are a lot more of these people out there the trick d a & m s13. right now is he barred from sending them out of the country? >> the order bars him from doing that. they are trying to create a due process system. trying to see how due process will work. there isn't much to be add there. perhaps if somebody has evidence they're an american citizen but even whether they are or are not part of that group, i think is presidential and not part of the court. >> dana: thank you.

>> bill: stay close. >> got it. >> bill: let's get to this. tracy morgan needed to lay down while watching lay-ups. today's hemmer celebrity news. the comedian fell ill courtside during the monday night knick's game. >> dana: don't show it. >> bill: it is gross. escorted out on a wheelchair telling fans don't worry about him. posting i'm doing okay now. doctors say it was food poisoning. end quote there. i was at the game. i was at the game. we were like what is the delay here? and they kept playing music. song after song. what's going on? the kiss cam comes on and they go back to song after song after song and what's up? >> dana: web when people would get sick in school and the custodian would come and throw sawdust on it. >> bill: how many people had their camera rolling on video

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president zelenskyy said he would speak to president trump. apparently that's happening right now. president trump is in the oval office talking to zelenskyy. zelenskyy has accepted the idea and terms of a cease-fire agreement. putin was like maybe i'll take one part of that, not the rest. putin talked to trump yesterday and now trump is debriefing zelenskyy on that and we'll provide you more information as they release it. >> i feel like its -- i don't co-parent with the government. my children are mine and i good get to decide what we learn. >> bill: parents in illinois having a rally today against a bill to create new regulations for homeschooling. they argue it severely limits school choice freedom. the homeschool act would force parents to register their children with the nearest public school district and failure to comply could hit families with penalties. for more on this martha maccallum, mother of three.

all grown up now. nice to see you, good morning. what do you think? >> good thing i didn't homeschool my kids. although i am a big fan of it. i don't think i wouldn't have done a good job. >> bill: the state saying you knowed to register and need vaccination history and parents say you are infringing of our rights to take care of our own kids. >> if the illinois school system was doing a bang-up job and setting such a high bar they needed to make sure if you want to teach your kids at school we get it but they need to meet the high bar we have in the public school system because it is a public obligation to educate every child. the problem is that they want -- if they don't file the papers we'll decide they're truant. i'm like i have been asking where the word truancy in the language around this. we have a 30 plus% chronic absentee rate. don't they bang on the door and

tell parents their children are truant? no, they didn't. now they want to go after homeschool parents for having their children be truant. i find it amazing. homeschool kids, i looked up the numbers. they out perform on standardized tests by 15 to 20% above public school kids. if the public school system was hitting the mark and hitting it out of the park and say you have to live up to our standards that's one thing but not the case. >> dana: the teachers unions are clinging on to the past. the parents i think will probably win in the end. illinois state report card reading at 39.4%. math 27.9% is the proficiency. that isn't good enough. governor desantis wrote a piece last night saying good riddance to the u.s. department of education. florida shows how states can lead insuring children learn and become a competitive issue in terms of getting people to move to the state. i have lower taxes, crime is low, and i will educate your

children better. >> absolutely. and florida didn't always have that reputation in their public school systems at all. they are improving. i don't have any problem with public schools making sure that if you say you are homeschooling you are actually educating your children. maybe it should be a little bit the other way around. >> i would agree. put up number one. by the way, this is not necessary lay republican/democrat issues. a lot of democrats disagree with the bill. i don't know if it will be enacted. for the constituents i understand why they don't like it. loss of their autonomy. they lose autonomy over their children. they want to have control of their children's education including the curriculum, how they teach and the philosophy. >> i would be so shocked if members of the illinois bureaucracy were knocking on homeschoolers doors saying are you doing a good job? did you check all the boxes?

have you gone through this curriculum? they don't even have control over what is happening in their public school system. i think the motivation to try to make these people's lives more difficult will be very low. now one of the things that they're saying is they want to have some governance over if you want to participate in public school sports you have to have the same vaccinations. that's understandable. here is what you have to do. it is good for homeschool goods to participate in sports and local school system and gives them exposure to other kids in their community and get involved in sports. lots to come at 3:00. these judges pushing back on the trump administration at levels we haven't seen in any other presidency is very interesting. he is more active in what he is pushing out there and it's one of the reasons you see the pushback. it is a good test of the policy

and i think in some ways they should welcome in. i think they will win on most of these. >> dana: then it is clear for everybody. >> absolutely. >> bill: good to see you. >> dana: trump administration is leaning into a.i. as the u.s. faces growing competition like -- from adversaries like china. .

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determination. >> bill: trump add min ashen trace released tens of thousands of pages of documents tied to the assassination of president john f. kennedy. what's in them? david spunt has a lot to read. >> do you have a few hours now? we're talking more than 60,000 documents released. we're still going through them. people have made careers out of studying this. they believe this is the most transparent document donald trump since the 1990s. parts unredacted. of the information released perhaps the most interesting surrounding lee harvey oswald the man believed to be the lone gunman and person responsible for the death of him. he had connections to cuba and soviet union. in one of the documents released a former c.i.a. employee recalled that oswald and his

wife got visas to leave too easily. he married a russian. while he does not believe oswald was sent back to the u.s. by the soviets he can't preclude that. they include info about the c.i.a. conducting surveillance on cubans, some in the united states. document highlight the kennedy administration's distrust in the c.i.a. in 19612 years before the assassination arthur wrote the contemporary c.i.a. is like a state within a state. negative talk there. a lot of documents look like this. copies of copies of typewritten pages once redacted making it difficult to check out in 2025. no indication though the bottom line of new names being involved directly in is assassination.

while documents bring interesting information. more than 60,000 pages with potentially more to come. national archives have said 99% of all kennedy assassination documents have been released. >> bill: might feed more theories. >> dana: or not. >> bill: thank you. >> dana: the a.i. arms race prompting major action at the state and federal level as the u.s. looks to stave off competition from china. mark meredith has more from washington . big topic. >> experts agree overall a.i. will change the world. the debate in washington is how to be regulated and it is possible as the technology evolves so far. they are reviewing feedback what the action plan should look like. vice president vance urged the country not to let china and others get ahead of american development. >> yes there are concerns and risks.

we have to be leaning into the a.i. future with optimism and hope. i think real technological innovation is going to make our country stronger. >> this month open a.i. the company behind chatgpt submitted ideas calling for a relationship with the public. to use copyright material to train models. avoid forfeiting our lead to the chinese by preserving america a.i. models from copyrighted material. that draws sharp criticism from entertainers, more than 400 stars and entertainment executives setting white house their own letter saying it will undermine the economic and cultural strength and underway in congress about what regulation looks like. a lot of states are not waiting for the feds to act but imposing new laws governing how and when a.i. can be used in their backyard. >> dana: fascinating stuff. thank you.

>> bill: before we go, want to share something with you. this year marks the 100th anniversary of country music institution, the grand ole opry. a closer look at the man who started it all. fascinating cat. all in the fox nation special streaming right now. you can log online, download the app called meet the america who founded the grand ole opry. happy 100 to the folks in nashville. >> dana: it's great. have you been? >> bill: i have, yes. >> dana: i love it. >> bill: the whole series is really interesting. some of these people are obscure but have had major contribution to american culture and business. check out the series rolling right now and happy birthday. >> dana: they produced it well at fox nation. "the faulkner focus." she will take you through the next hour. lots to come all day on fox. here she is. >> harris: we begin with this fox news alert. president trump is