take for example the situations in afghanistan and burma. the afghan people are suffering from the brutality of the taliban and. it is the only country in the world where girls are denied the ability to attend school above the sixth grade. on top of degrees like these the afghan people have experienced widespread drought, food insecurity, skyrocketing food prices, flash floods, air pollution, exacerbating the harshness of life, and increasing the likelihood that afghanistan remains a failed state. again, the climate impacts have been particularly devastating to women and girls. as noted in our recently released 2024 us strategy to empower adolescent girls globally, girls and young women in afghanistan and around the world face increased risk of gender-based violence, decline in well-being including their mental health and lack of access to essential services due to climate-related disasters. similarly in burma, a nation experiencing deep internal conflict following the 2021 military takeover faces unprecedented climate impacts, specifically

burma, now myanmar, where orwell had once served as a colonial policeman, where he'd first grown to despisethe apparatus of a security state, became more orwellian than even he could have imagined. a nation, or even having an opinion, could be dangerous. >> i am very honored to be here at this university, and to be the first president of the united states of america to visit your country. >> morning in yangon. to nearly everyone's surprise, there have been some huge changes in recent months. >> the most difficult time in any transition is when we think that success is in sight. >> nobel prize winning democracy champion aung san suu kyi, for nearly 15 years under house arrest, was released and has now taken an active role in politics. just as the door is opening, my crew and i are among the first to record what has been unseen for decades by most of the world. meanwhile, this southeast asian country of 80 million people is collectively holding its breath, waiting to see what's next. and will this loosening of government grip last? bill maher of course, morning in yangon has always been about

isn't everyone in burma dei?y still had about $150 billion left over to spend on illegals last year. 150 billion with a be. if you are wondering, the manhattan project adjusted for inflation only cost 30 billion. the panama canal, 15 billion. the hoover dam, 1 billion. you don't need a phd to know we are getting ripped off. >> unless you don't have a brain above a single cell organism, you know that there is waste in the federal government. there is a norm is waste. a cutting waste appears kind of like going to heaven. everybody wants to do it but nobody's quite ready to make the trip. >> jesse: that was until today. trump finally got elon out of marla longo and scent him to capitol hill. he brought someone special. we are not talking about vivek ramaswamy. >> how do you find -- define success for doge? do you want to see democrats here? >> trump is taking a blowtorch to d.c. the goal is to cut to trillion from the budget. if you're working from home you are not working hard enough so pack your bags. >> and the i

this common bond binds the grower of rice in burma in the planting of wheat in iowa. the shepherd in, southern italy and the mountain mountaineer in the andes. it confers that common dignity upon the french who dies in indochina. the british soldier killed in malaya. the american life given in korea. we know beyond this that are linked to all free peoples, not merely by a noble idea, but by a simple need for no free can for long, cling to any privilege or enjoy any safety in economic solitude for all our own material might even we need markets in the world, the surpluses of our farms and our factories equally we need for these farms and factories vital and products of distant lands. this basic law of interdependence so manifest in the commerce peace applies with thousandfold intensity in the event of war. so are we by necessity and by belief that the strength of our free peoples lies in unity? their danger in this garden to produce unity, to meet the challenge of our time, destiny as laid upon country, the responsibility of the free world leadership. so it is proper t

of the corps soon encircle the earth and military police found themselves traffic on the tortuous burma road. landing on normandy beachheads to support amphibious operations operations. and managing enemy prisoners. war everywhere from italy to south pacific. but none of the corps often performed as engineer was and fought as infantry. they were instrumental, achieving the first bridgehead across the rhine. the famous bridge at romagna. a presidential citation recognizing the emperor's extra gallantry. there reads in part this sector was, the target of 24 hour day artillery air and even v-2 attacks, unable to take cover under murderous fire, the mvp's remained at their posts on the ridge. though casualties among them mounted day. it was the cool, capable direction of the military police, which ensured the crossing of troops and supplies vitally needed to establish the bridgehead. lake up the bridge opened with almost never sent display of courage and devotion duty during those crucial five days that the bridge standing. remarking was surely one of the corps his finest hours hours at pea

the dei in burma instead of math in america. >> lawrence: 30 seconds real quickly on david sacks gettingll as ai. how do you feel about that? >> number one, is he a business guy, okay? unlike the biden administration, we have got people here who know business. number two is he an investor in crypto-currency and ai. he and donald trump want america to be a leader in these things. you got to find somebody who understands the real ai czar. that's what david sacks can do. i'm excited about. this. >> lawrence: i love people sign the front of the check are involved with government now because they will watch out for our money as well. >> they know how to make payroll. >> lawrence: catch brian on "the big money show" on fox business. i appreciate it. >> see you, man. >> lawrence: coming up. we are strolling, we had a big night at the patriot awards yesterday. honoring our american heroes. the widow of nypd officer jonathan diller is going to join us on "fox & friends" coming up. >> although we suffered this tragedy, we will not live a tragic life. we will live a life that supports the legacy an

and india theater as they parachuted in those killing fields and called the burma road. our oldest brother was a marine and fought against the bottle she havics and sent to the arctic where 40 degree below zero. as marines deployed to arc angel to fight the bottle she haveics. that resulted in the civil war. the red army was victorious and almost those who searched in our family, both our mother and father's sides were combat veterans. for my part as a senior in high school i dreamed of attending the united states air force academy, but in those days my application was rejected because i was a woman and thank goodness that has changed. i maintained our interest in our national security by now serving as senior member of the house appropriations house defense subcommittee and another reason that the leadership of this house should not hold up the appropriation bills, the defense funding for 2025 is in that bill. the work of defense ensures our men and women in uniform are supplied with the resources required to protect american interests at home and abroad. as i watch the

sounds kind of like porn. 45 million on d-i scholarships in burma. isn't everyone in burma die? and they still had about $150 billion left over to spend on illegals last year. 150 billion with a b. if you're wondering, the manhattan project, adjusted for inflation, only costs 30 billion. the panama canal 15 billion. the hoover dam 1 billion. you don't need a phd in economics to know we're getting ripped off. >> unless you don't have a brain above a single cell organism, you know that there is waste in the federal government. there's enormous waste. cutting waste up here is kind of like going to heaven. you know, everybody wants to do it, but nobody's quite ready to make the trip. >> that was until today. trump finally got elon out of mar-a-lago and sent him to capitol hill, and he brought someone special. and we're not talking about vivek. elon musk today. >> how do you win over people who say doge doesn't have any power? do you think you can stop elon? how do you define success for doge elon? >> do you want to see democrats here? >> trump's taking a blowtorch to dc. the goal is

the karen are indigenous to myanmar, formerly known as burma. many have fled because of religious and ethnic persecution. organizers of today's event say there are about 200 karen who now live in the bay area and about 60,000 statewide. they say holding this event is an important way to stay connected to the culture and show the wider community who they are. our korea community also contribute a lot to a community society, and even though in oakland there's a l of things going on, we still exist. we're still proud to be korean and live in oakland, have jobs, have work, go to school. okay. this time of year, organizers symbols a new year approaches. and i got to try it. it was delicious. yeah. loved it. perfect for this weather, too. absolutely. this is definitely soup weather. yes. there's a lot going on outside. there is. you know, at least we've been spared from a completely washed out weekend. and we've gotten, you know, nice calm before the storm moves in. and this will have some impact to your sunday plans. but i've got you covered. we've g

the industry is it will with money who for us as really loves short story in burma shuts off to that. qu data hope so industrialization disappeared front had no need of an industrialized africa. added value must be generated in france, and the african must remain below world prices as a market and rule materials supply up. the story behind the he'll come up century is a classic example of how from sort to exploit molly and results is with out into testing an industrialized thing, the country. and they really reflect the business that sooner plus $100.00. and so, unless you're a little cold, well, well, it'd be just a lot of money. yeah. and using i've and cut all our life less than what you're doing. these are, is it set up for the concrete dealer for the does she want money to to send a flyer for me? callaway. or what are you seeing on a salty lot? i don't want to do this thing for me. i flew on the lotus is also to local restaurant. do notice list are both activity one on the front page if you are the most. if jennifer confusions genesis all parts, you don't want to do, or finalize.

there is $3 million being spent on girls climaxing in brazil $45 million on the gei scholarship in burma9 million on improperly stored gas engines 125 million being spent on racialized and public health. seven billion-dollar non- empty government buildings a lot of waste and this is the low hanging fruit this is not going to get to do to try again dollars but erica, your reaction on the potential of really cutting into debt. >> not only the wasteful government spending that we know exist but also making good on donald trump promises to the american people including getting rid of the department of education in the di programs and bringing people back to work, that's another thing that the focus on getting back into the office and stop waiting must enter money on empty buildings. maria: what do you think relook at both sides of the aisle right now, joining his conversation, i don't know if it'll be a training dollars but it's all hands on deck. >> the red wave has secured that were getting a lot of changes. it's very exciting. when you look back throughout history i will go to save the de

. >> what about $45 million going towards ade i scholarship in burma, the country. >> i need more information about that. that's too much money. >> too much for a different country on di? >> i'm not talking to you. >> why not help the homeless, we've got all these homeless people around here. there's people that need the money and they don't choose to give it to us so they choose to give it to other countries that don't need it. >> can ask who you voted for. >> kamala harris. >> you should look into doge, you might like what you have to see. >> trace: the doge police out tonight. let's bring in... thank you both for coming on. here's president-elect trump on doge. he said this. >> through the department of government efficiency, elon musk has been working very hard with various people including the back ramaswamy. going to eliminate hundreds of billions of dollars of wasted fraud. i can only tell you they are finding things that you wouldn't even believe. we are looking to save maybe $2 trillion and it will have no impact. >> one of the ways that elon musk says you can save is to get rid of a

tucked up near the borders of burma, china, laos, india, not too far away. all of them have left their mark on the food. >> here's the local hooch. >> lao cao. and if you're eating here, chances are you're also drinking air. >> compared to the the stuff we had this morning. uh, this is a substantially more harsh, i would say, and less fragrant. >> the village of mahon and this place is called him tang. how do you find this place, ben? we're in the middle of nowhere. it's a very popular place, a restaurant showcasing one of the distinguishing elements of northern thai cuisine. the heavy use of animal protein. >> you see the local people there lining up here in northern thailand. pig reigned supreme. so most of the stuff we're eating here is made out of pig. >> okay, so did you order grilled pig tail? that sounds superb. yeah. >> and then he ordered some siwa northern thai herbal pork sausage. >> oh, yeah, i'm on that. brain. >> some pig's brain. >> yeah. i'm not a big brain fan. i just, a custardy sort of texture coupled with a sort of nutty taste. frankly, i

time with public confidence has sunk so low that a new poll puts it in the company of places like burma, and venezuela. joining me now is mark joseph stern. i know you have thoughts on this. i myself had a few. how does this work, mark? how does this work? tell me how this works? >> it is almost too absurd to believe. but there is a code of conduct that strictly governs the rules for federal judges in this country. but it only covers lower court judges. it does not cover the justices themselves. the justices have exempted themselves from that code. the code they have written which is much more lenient is entirely unenforceable and voluntary. so lower court judges who have far less power and prestige and public image as supreme court justices, they play by this strict set of rules. when they dare to call out a supreme court justice for acting in a way that is utterly unbecoming of the judiciary, they are not the ones who get in trouble. not the justice who seemingly broke bedrock rules of how to behave but the person who dared to call out the bad behavior. it is about as upside down as y

according to the heritage found out about dei scholarship program in burma.f that getting rid of them here. 89 million for improperly stored gas engines. >> steve: that's from the festivus report. >> brian: 125 million racialized public health foundation. getting back to work is key. 90% of people are not back at work. get rid of them. >> we talked about this 90% of the people worked for the federal government are working from home there are all these vacant buildings as a result of that after covid people went home and never went bark. almost 8,000 vacant buildings, another 2200 are partially empty. federal buildings are costing us, the taxpayers $8 million to lease and maintain and another 7.7 billion spent for the energy to keep them running. >> steve: right. there are two things to think about regarding this. so 90% of the federal workforce works from home. are they working efficiently? maybe maybe if it's working out leave them at home and then sell all that property. get rid of all that property. it doesn't make any sense. if people aren't in a building

45 billion dollars in burma what? >> 89 million dollars on o o i am propererly stored gas engines 125 million on ratioizing public health what? ? 70 billion dollars on empty government buildings a lot here not going to come close to two trillion dollars, you have to start consolidating agencies but a good effort your reaction. luke: last time we talked about dei how this spending den billion dollars dei costing nursing home of billions in lost productivity from dei, starting at the top when it comes to the federal employees 21 million federal employees two million direct federal employees 21 public sector including state get them in office or do away with buildings why don't you do both get away with job salaries some buildings unproductive jobs at the end of the day how many billions dollars lost on government from back at office adding value working maybe longer hours that is adding more productivity to the system combined dei combine, government jobs, getting them back to the office there could be hundreds of billi

of the corps soon encircle the earth and military police found themselves traffic on the tortuous burma road. landing on normandy beachheads to support amphibious operations operations. and managing enemy prisoners. war everywhere from italy to south pacific. but none of the corps often performed as engineer was and fought as infantry. they were instrumental, achieving the first bridgehead across the rhine. the famous bridge at romagna. a presidential citation recognizing the emperor's extra gallantry. there reads in part this sector was, the target of 24 hour day artillery air and even v-2 attacks, unable to take cover under murderous fire, the mvp's remained at their posts on the ridge. though casualties among them mounted day. it was the cool, capable direction of the military police, which ensured the crossing of troops and supplies vitally needed to establish the bridgehead. lake up the bridge opened with almost never sent display of courage and devotion duty during those crucial five days that the bridge standing. remarking was surely one of the corps his finest hours hours at pea

i was on a mission to burma during that time and we faced the same kind of thing. so it is a dilemma and, you know, nuclear issues are, you know, sort of inherently secret, but human rights is a difficult issue to deal with in that respect, and i'm not sure. i think it depends on the circumstance what works best. >> any one of you can jump in. >> yeah, i mean, human rights is a good example. i would just add may be diplomacy continues to rely, good diplomacy, on the creation, the establishment, of relationships of trust and confidentiality with your important interlocutors, particularly if you are the government, the ambassador. you need to make sure you have those relationships where you can manage things in a quiet way, in a confidential way. during my tenure, i would point to the example of working out with our military colleagues on both sides, and on the diplomatic side, our shared response to north korea's actions, sinking a ship and then shelling an island, and as in other cases where we have dealt with provocations, attacks, aggression from the north, there

burma?a for the most part with some problems that exist with the program and jennifer know on the case of puerto rico. but explain the differences. in the case of florida are female process that we respond to hurricanes a natural disaster is fema comes in, asks the state what do you need? the state tells you this is what we need and they provided. they are there to help the state. the frontline is the state. the government steps in this backdrop. that model did not work in puerto rico. i do that, i think i was there 72 hours of leave i was the first elected from official the with other than jennifer nettles who is a resident commissioner. i can back and remember met with the vice president and said the fema want a suckling work in puerto rico for two reasons. one, it's 1000 miles away so you can't drive in a convoy of trucks to restore power like we did a florida. number two is the government of puerto rico festivals. the frontline itself is a victim of the storm. they went weeks without bei

a mustache who was born in pittsburgh and served as a private in the 352nd engineers battalion in burmae 35th president of this country, was a working man who earns $3.01 an hour. he was over behind the hill digging graves in another section of the cemetery. he didn't know who the graves were for. he was just digging them and then covering them with boards. i tried to go over to see the grave, he said, but it was so crowded, i could not get through. i will get over there later, a little bit. like i told you, it's an honor. that is jimmy breslin reporting three days after the assassination. >> one of the most famous pieces ever written. i spent some time with the daily news but talk to us about what america is sort of missing with the decline of some of those papers. just the spirit that carried the day. it is bad for us all and for democracy. >> we have some good local outlets, but they don't capture that big audience. 3 million people riding the subways in the morning. now we are getting them from our iphones. but then, this was a voice that connected with the people and we all had som

[beep] in burma, that anagrams to... joey. rivers of the whirled for $1,600. -joey.ect. rivers of the whirled for $2,000. [beep] that's the atchafalaya. back to you, joey. um...ends in "ch" for $1,200. joey. what is, uh...church? no. jonathan. what is a megachurch? -that's correct. -ends in "ch," $800. -kathleen. -what is starch? -yes. -ends in "ch," $1,600. -kathleen. -what is a bench? -right again. -ends in "ch," $2,000. [beep] beware the frumious bandersnatch. kathleen. um, heist films for $1,200. -joey. -what is "the italian job"? -yes. -heist films, $1,600. -joey. -what is "inception"? -yes. -heist films, $2,000. -jonathan. -what is "the town"? -he loves "the town," yeah. -transportation, $1,200. answer... [applause] joey's big daily double wager has put you at a disadvantage here, jonathan. -what do you wanna do? -$5,000. all right, you would be tied for the lead if correct in transportation... what is a monorail? monorail--that is correct. you're tied for the lead. [applause] transportation, $1,600. the name of this early form of bicycle is from latin for "swi

or in burma, where so many are suffering escalating violence. or in ukraine, where people are brutalized by putin's invasion, the efforts to defend their country. no matter where you look, there is no shortage of suffering. but the place that weighs heaviest on my heart this season is the middle east. we have the families of israel continuing to grieve the loss of 1,200 of their own loved ones on october 7, 2023. we have families in israel that continue to not know the fate of their loved ones taken hostage, whether they are alive, whether they are dead, whether they're being cared for, whether they're suffering, will they be released. there will be an empty charity table. the -- chair at the table. the victims in israel weigh on my opinion heart. but the palestinian victims also on my heart. individuals on the west bank, palestinians who suffer from decades of occupation, of the economic constraints and indignity that come from check points, that come from land lost to settlements and to outposts, to olive orchards bulldozed down, to lives lost

you all will have heard me say a million times, married to immigrants that came from bangladesh and burmaall the rest of it, and they made incredible lives for themselves and massively contributed. and it took time. you can't expect someone that comes over here in a year to turn their lives around, but with support they can. >> the problem is, is that gdp per capita is going down, and it's not just a result of legal migration, because there's good cases for legal migration. it's illegal migrants that people are getting really upset about because they are actually, you know, screwing the system. so to speak. you know about that? well, yeah, of course, legal migration is too high. absolutely. >> and we need to separate. >> and we need to separate. >> exactly. that's what i'm trying to say. let's separate. the illegal migrant problem is a totally different issue, because we're having to pay billions of pounds for those people to look after them. it's coming out of your taxpayer money. it's coming out of your bill. legal migrants can come here and start working and contributing to the economy