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i know when you go and travel and see first hand the work of dedicated usaid fraud officers, civil servants and local staff to whom we owe gratitude and thanks, not dishonor shown to them by wealthy billionaires with a social media platform. now i only have a few minutes left and won't spend my time debunking every mischaracterization or out right lie. these are distractions meant to obscure critical work usaid does. i instead submit to the record stories by wash"washington post new york times, dubious claims made by republicans. yes. what i will use my time on is making clear that this hearing title, the usaid betrayal is absolutely correct because this is betrayal, trump administration is betraying our national security, betraying our allies, betraying americans who carry out usaid mission and most challenging and dangerous places, betraying generosity of the american people and betraying investment americans made to stop disease before they spread. make sure girls have same opportunity as boys and natural disaster have basic human necessities. it is betraying babies born with hiv who cou

critical including "the new york times" which february the 11th and a headline said, "the oval office makes fraudraud without proof. now consider this, gao report april 16th last year during the biden administration which said gao estimated total direct annual financial losses to the government from fraud to be 233000000000-$521 billion from fiscal year 2018-2022. they put up this graph of the worst offenders, nearly 24% of the treasury department budget is lost to waste, fraud, and obvious!" that would be in direct contrast the way "the new york times" presenting what elon musk is doing. your thoughts about that. >> i will tell you, the american people spoke loud and clear. 77 million people electing donald trump and making sure republicans controlled the white house, the house, the senate or to the president campaigned on being disruptive and ending business as usual in washington, d.c. at that is, and packed, but they are doing with doge looking at every aspect to make more efficient for the american people it is supposed to be working for a bit rooting out fraud. for example, doge highlighted

fraud. in the fall of last year the government accountability office found quote the federal government could be losing between 233,000,000,521 billion annually to wait for it, fraud. most of that from the treasury, labor and veterans affairs departments. it is all right there on the agency's website. you don't have to look for it. just google it. the "wall street journal" editorial board dug into those numbers and it found those billions of dollars if fraud and unemployment benefits -- employee tax credits, medicare, medicaid, also millions in covid benefit payments and in the social security administration's master death file. congressman, it is not that hard to find the receipts. >> no, it's not. absolutely i don't know how in the world our liberal friends could not see that. but with all that being said, you know, harris, i think you did a great job, you do it every day and if i could just add one thing. just imagine just this. just dumb it down and make it simple. let's just say a man shows up in your driveway and knocks on the door and says there is a man standing out in the street and

fraud. >> bill: a report from the government accountability office released under the biden administration a year ago. meanwhile you have democrats and federal workers protesting mass layoffs that could impact in the end possibly hundreds of thousands of people. >> dana: peter doocy is reporting live from the white house to get us going today. hi, peter. >> dana, as watchdogs crush the number. the fraud part might cost the feds 233 and 521 billion with a b dollars every single year. the next agency under the microscope will be the i.r.s. >> i don't know what we'll find at the i.r.s. i can tell you with the i.r.s., i have three goals. collections, privacy, and customer service. we will do a big i.t. upgrade and we'll see where that takes us. >> this is where it will take them according to new numbers from the government accountability office. look at this graphic. 23% of the treasury's budget may be going to things considered waste, fraud and abuse. 12% at the labor department. 10% at the v.a. 9% at the hhs. the list is long and it goes on. elon musk took a break from leading the cost cutti

be from the department of government efficiency ordos tried to enter their offices today searching for evidence of waste and fraud. now, according to san francisco sheriff's office, 3 men dressed in doge shirts and maga hats and various offices at city hall around noon today and demanded employees turnover digital information. the employees refused and called the sheriff's office. but the man left before deputies got there. the sheriff's office says that they don't leave. the people were actual representatives from goes hard to tell president trump created those when he took office in january and put elon musk in charge. >> state farm's request to increase rates has been rejected. the state's insurance commissioner says the company did not prove why they needed rates height at this time. state farm. 22% hike for homeowners policy says they deal with claims from la county fire victims. the commissioner has scheduled a meeting with state farm for later this month to address questions about state farm's financial condition and the proposed rate hike. >> governor newsom is vowing to veto a bill that would prevent the

now searching medicare and medicaid offices for potential fraud - fraud or waste. what did elon musk say about this? >> reporter: this is where the big-money fraud is happening at medicare and medicaid. hhs estimates in 2023, $100 billion in improper payments were made to these programs that year alone. democrats warning today he they don't think musk will stop at finding fraud, but steal your taxpayer dollars. >> elon musk pretending to care about efficiency when what he cares about is taking your taxpayer dollars, taking your medicare, taking her medicaid, taking your social security. another waste is house republicans colleagues showing up, they will not speak out about these abuses. >> reporter: republicans think spending taxpayer dollars elon musk is exposed is an abuse against working people and their hard-earned money. spending money on things like this, doge posting the social security administration has terminated its contract for the gender x initiative marker and removed all references to gender ideology for public facing applications. this saves $1 mill

offices just after noon. they demanded digital information related to alleged wasteful government spending and fraud. employees refused and called sheriff's deputies. the people then just took off. the sheriff's office is reviewing surveillance and using other investigative tools to work on finding some leads. >> in san francisco's japantown. today, there was a call regarding history and being certain not to repeat it. that's amid concerns over the mass deportations facing immigrant communities. abc seven news reporter luz pena went to the national japanese american historical society, where concentration camp survivors honored the bay area day of remembrance. >> it's been 83 years since florentino miller's life changed forever. she was six years old when she and her family were forced into a concentration camp in february of 1942. >> i was a child, and so i feel that i was protected by my mother. >> saburo fukuda was seven years old when he saw fbi agents take his dad at church. >> and we were forced to live in a horse stalls at tanforan assembly. we were all enclosed in a one room barrack. >> their

a break is a dad with the president of the united states in his office, bringing sunlight to these dark, existential, incompetence, fraud, all seasons, corruption at the u.s. treasury. host: -- guest: the image of elon musk in the oval office was interesting, especially with his son. that underscores the idea that he is an unelected official but a key part of the u.s. government, a close ally of president trump and a large donor. there seem to be a lot of leeway within the federal government. whether people like him or not, he is a key power player in the current trump administration and it is interesting to see how his impact continues to play out. host: he is doing a financial disclosure been making it public, so how does that work? guest: that will be an interesting dynamic. it could change the pressure. we will have to see. we saw this conversation about the tax returns with trump during his first administration, so it will be curious to see how that plays out, especially because he talked about potential compex of interest, so it will be a fascinating dynamic to follow. host: judy, oregon, democrat. caller: let's s

fraud, and abuse. >> you don't. >> fire the head of the office. >> of government ethics. >> if you care about fraud andthics. >> you don't. >> gut the fbi. you don't cripple the department of justice. you don't close the consumer. >> financial protection. >> board, which saves. >> taxpayers and consumers billions. >> and billions of dollars. >> so this is it's a the fraud. >> here is them saying they're going after corruption. this is all about transferring wealth from the working class to the billionaire class. it's government of the billionaires, by the billionaires. and for the billionaires, that's really what's going on here. >> given that, what do you think of that press conference, scott? >> well. >> look, elon musk. >> who doesn't need. >> to do this, has, you know, he could be doing anything else. he's got companies. he's the richest guy in the world. >> don't need to do this. he has. >> decided to give his own time to a government of a country that he loves, that has given him all this opportunity. i take him at his word that he wants to be transparent, that he invites transparency. obviously,

and the people who actually investigate waste, fraud and abuse at these agencies are the inspector generals who donald trump fired his first week in office in a midnight massacre. so we have to ask ourselves, what is really going on here? why did republicans block elon musk from appearing before this very committee last week? why is the administration so eager to allow elon musk and his hackers to have access to proprietary and private information in the treasury payment system? why are our colleagues across the aisle shielding them as they are breaking the law and why is the vice president trying to rewrite the u.s. constitution by tweets and undermine the judiciary? so obviously we're in the oversight committee and we have a lot of questions and so do the american people. especially while our colleagues across the aisle are trying to scoop up the savings from the dismantling of these agencies to pay for the largest permanent tax break in american history for billionaires and the folks that they are helping on their side of the aisle. so let me close by saying this. directly to mr. elon musk. we are well aware that you are eager to enga

according to the government accountability office, they estimate 10% of that money could be lost to fraud system is how most money is dispersed by federal agencies including social security payments, veterans benefits, tax refunds and federal grant money given to states like for medicaid. new york attorney general letitia james argues it is unlawful to give access to americans most private financial data to doge political appointees rather than career civil servants with career security clearances and the access is unconstitutional. that power belongs in the hands of congress. last night treasury secretary scott bessent highlighted the importance of musk overhauling a payment system that led to $2.7 trillion in improper government payments since 2003. >> that's where the waste, fraud, and abuse is. the treasury is the actual algorithm. how things get paid and whether things are properly accounted for. i can tell you from the information i see, there is very improper accounting, there is no notations. >> reporter: musk wants to implement direct to liturgy -- technology, including artificia

officers who are prosecuting waste, fraud, and abuse against trump's family and pardoning people who assaulted police officers and sending a message to the american people that ethics don't matter. if you ignore the law, you can ignore the orders of the court according to j.d. vance because we're livering in a post congressional era according to the o.m.b. director russ vote and doing that by giving access to those that are not cleared and massively biased. congress fulfilled their obligation and should put a stop to that immediately. may i ask how much time is remaining? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has one minute. mr. casten: i yield the remaining time to mr. toe kahno of california. mr. takano: when the government asks to process tax refunds, americans say yes because there's an expectation of privacy and trust and trust their information won't fall in the hands of bad actors and they trust their information will be secure with people who are qualified, vetted, and who have been proven worthy to have access to their sensitive data? but this administration has allowed this

in fact if you look back the government accountability office has been looking into fraud in various ways. learning that we lose an estimated $233 billion to 521 billion annually to fraud. let's back that time line a little bit further. a few moments ago you heard martha maccallum interviewing one of the obama burros to. talking about than president barack obama concerned about waste, fraud and abuse, it predates barack obama. since 2003 we have seen a steady climb in improper payments on the federal ledger. take us to point number 2 in case of fraud and waist words become too generic you need to know how your money is being spent. here is one example. $22 billion by hhs going to grants for illegal immigrants or migrants if you want to call them refugees and that includes a cash and home loans. an incredible number we are spent to guide people who are not taxpaying americans. a story everyone has known for decades left, right, republican, democrat. today and 2055 we wake up and everybody is concerned about elon musk. today the media is telling you there is no evidence of waste, fraud

. >> reporter: and, jackie, the fraud should not be hard to find because there's a lot of it. the government accountability office estimating9 that the federal government loses as much as $500 billion every year due to fraud. jackie? jackie: hillary vaughn, thank you so much for that. >> this is highway robbery. this is the federal government having already allocated, authorized, awarded, invoiced and paid $80.5 million to the city of new york. and then elon musk, with no legal authority, seizing it back from the city of new york. it is highway robbery, and the city can't stand for it. jackie: new york city comptroller brad lander now complaining about elon musk taking back that $80 million that was misappropriated by fema to the city of new york to put illegal immigrants in luxury hotels. this is on the news that government cuts keep coming. nearly 1300 probationary employees at the cdc are now being forced out. under the trump administration's move to get rid of all a probationary employees. let's welcome former arkansas governor and president trump's nominee for u.s. ambassador to israel, mike huckabee. govern

office. aappearing alongside elon musk. he thinks it is possible to cut the u.s. deficit in half, half, by finding waste, fraud and abuse there defending the department of government efficiency as some directives face protests, court battles, and criticism. earlier today, key ally from the middle east met with president trump in the ole office as the president reiterates his plans to control and develop the gaza strip. jacqui heinrich following it all from the north lawn. >> jacqui: good evening, bret. elon musk responded to criticism saying that work buyouts and funding cuts are not a hostile takeover but the big government reform that the american people voted for. he warned bankrupt. he said he will comply with court orders as legal challenges continue. president trump compelling agencies to work with the department of government efficiency to begin large scale reductions in the federal workforce. the executive order limiting one new hire for every four employees that depart from government service and keeping new hires to essential positions. musk taking questions on some government payments doge has sough

it says quotes, the oval office must says without proof that bureaucracy is rife with fraud.t even the biden administration listed the billions that american loses to fraud. any journalist could find this out if they stopped huffing their own ass. but with changes from d.o.g.e the daily editor had to change their headline. now they claim that musk's changes are two broad. perhaps they were hoping that nobody would notice their mistake, like that time i once dropped my friends baby. when i was at the grand canyon. the cracks were also showing that cnn where a guest try to educate the albino ron burgundy on this very topic. >> some of the details that have come out like a $59 million spent on luxury hotels is actually not the. >> you are talking about the fema money abuse for migrants? fema money for migrants that it's okay now. >> i'm not think it is okay but. >> will you stop that process? >> its [bleep]. [laughter] >> greg: such a language! that goodness nobody under 85 was watching. but it is clear the road has gone off the rails before it lives. since when has anderson coo

fraud and abuse. craig: chair elon musk joining the oval office to defend his cost-cutting plans. this. >> it's not optional for us to reduce the federal expenses. it is essential. it is essential for america to remain solvent as a country and is essential for america to have the resources necessary to provide to its citizens and not vast amount of debt. >> congress new doge subcommittee will have the first hearing today that is titled the war on waste stamping out improper payments and fraud democratic jasmine crockett telling asked if she does anticipate it'll be nice she expects along combat because doge is clearly the devil right now. house democrats are clearly preparing for fireworks. after spending the last week relate against elon musk doge. maria: how do you push back on wasteful spending cutting it out after all the conversations about getting the numbers down. brooke sigman, let's get into it, your thoughts. >> i don't understand the total focus on elon musk. beside the fact he's on a two sticks of genius and multiple companies in multiple industries that are all very s

he says he's looking for fraud, and axios says doj's staffers have entered the offices of the nationald atmospheric administration. noaa studies weather and climate change. the white house was once again aske, who's policing musk's behavior? musk is not just in charge of the nation's budget. he also receives billions from that budget as a government contractor. and the answer is musk polices musk. what steps is the trump administration taking to address that conflict of interest? the president was already asked and answered this question this week, and he said, if elon musk comes across a conflict of interest with the contracts and the funding that doj's overseeing, then elon will excuse himself from those contracts. and cbs has released a transcript of its entire pre-election interview with kamala harris. trump accused cbs of selectively editing the interview and sued for $1 billion. cbs says there were no substantial edits and released the transcript to prove it. edits of interviews, though, are very common in all mediums tv, podcasts, radios, newspapers often trim up an answer for c

office. one of the usa ideas they destroyed off a decades of corruption fraud is or is even changed. tactics are exposed. the n g o's and media outlets. the partners with the agency are in the process. layoffs and budget cuts are just the beginning before the end. so now they've got the hands out looking for donation. so you can read about that on our website right now. because basically as a whole, us a id scandal continues every day to book f m. o revelations, the legacy media in europe, who's in gauging and damage, control and deception. instead of telling the truth about us, say, ideas raging, change around the world for 19 cruise and revolutions. sky news, for example, size usa id was only fighting salvation disease and funding education. and you wonder why no one's buying the legacy media's b. s. enabled question? well, with us it's on the who, when i would show the wrong, just don't have to shape out the application and engagement because the trails when so many find themselves will support, we choose to look so common ground the the welcome across the bull horns were all things are c

office is not political, not ideological. drug crime is drug crime. and nobody likes drug crime. financial fraud is financial fraud. so presumably, the u.s. attorney no matter who it is and what the administration is going to be, very impactful. >> reporter: ramsey's last day was yesterday. it is not unusual for u.s. attorneys to leave their position after a change in administration, however, they are usually asked to resign, not issued termination letters. >>> all right, while we are getting heavy rain, blinding snow in the sierra is making travel treacherous. look at this. this is a look at i-80 near truckee. where traffic was backed up because of spin-outs. chain controls in effect on the roads from placer county to the nevada state line. also new video tonight of a large debris flow in the eaton fire burn zone in altadena. so this is what official haves been worried about with this latest storm but it looks like crews right now have everything under control. a flash flood warning is in effect and evacuations have been issued. so for more on our weather let's go to paul heggen for more on the storm that is hitti

sheriff's office says the men demanded employees turn over information related to wasteful government spending and fraud. the employees refused their requests and then they called the sheriff's deputies. that's when the men took off. investigators say they don't believe that those men were actual representatives from doge, which is the department of government efficiency. okay, back in 60s ahead. will you soon be paying more for your homeowner's insurance? the decision tonight on state farm's request for an emergency rate hike and the festivities underway in the big apple. an epic concert tonight celebrating snl's 50th anniversary. and what else you can expect to see this weekend. and i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. we are tracking the possibility of some showers. we'll get you the latest details and timings for your american airlines regional jet in dc. this comes two weeks after that mid-air crash over dc, killing 67 people. ntsb now says that the chopper was in fact flying too high, but that the pilots may not have known it. the helicopter's black box indicates it was at an altitude of 278ft wh

fraud waste and abuse out of our federal government. the way the bureaucratic, sri shuffling the agencies office in washington dc has been saved. all fun stuff is told to keep out. as of the usa, it's websites and social media channels with taking down more than $600.00 employees have reportedly been locked out of the agencies computer systems to off. he's correspondence asking taylor builds into the murky history of us aids for meddling behind the scenes. as an old hand and the biggest play in the game, usa i, they really should have seen it coming. how often movies, decades, could they not have smelt a really frustrating shutting down here? is that the, the, the reasons that as opposed to simply because, you know, trying to doing this a minor house cleaning is, is that as you're not getting through us at usa id, it became apparent that when we have here is, is not an apple was a woman, but we have actually just a bowl of ones. and so it's as a point which you don't really like for you to go to. apple has got to him and it may even take them out. but if you could actually just a ball of one's, it's as hopeless and you're savvy

been passed by president trump, to do, to get the fraud waste and abuse out of our federal government to mid the bureaucratic re shuffling the agencies office in washington dc has been sealed off and staff was told to keep out. well, that's for you and say i, these website and social media channels were taken down. more than $600.00 employees have for portal. they've been locked out of the agencies computer system are to correspondence has to be a tailored those into the murky history of usa ideas for and modeling behind the scenes as an old hand and the biggest play in the game, usa i, they really should have seen it coming, how often movies, decades, could they not have smelt a president shutting down here? is that the, the, the reason is that as opposed to simply because, you know, trying to do and do some minor house cleaning is, is that again sir, usa usa id, it became apparent that when we have here is, is not an apple was a woman. but we have actually just a bowl of ones. and so it's as a point which you don't really like for you to go to an apple is go to it, it may even take them out. but if you could actually just a ball of ones,

beginning of trump and musk's oval office presser tuesday night. >> and some of the things that we found, which are shocking. billions and billions of dollars in waste, fraud and abuse. and i think it's very important. and that's one of the reasons i got elected. i said, we're going to do that. nobody had any idea it was that bad, that sick and that corrupt. >> and this sort of language is often repeated by elon musk on his x platform. you can see a few of the posts here. we can put them up. these are just from the last few days. hopefully we have those right here. so just to start off this conversation, what is the legal definition of fraud and why does it matter that musk and trump may be mischaracterizing what doge is finding? >> so it depends on. >> the statute. >> and there's a lot to unpack here. >> the united states. >> has a variety of different statutes that it can use to go after actual fraud or. even actual corruption. >> these are. >> crimes. >> so many. >> times these. >> require some specific. >> intent to defraud. >> and again, the united. >> states has a. long history of prosecuting, successfully prosecuting actual fraud and corruption. it

office. reporter: what's your thought on d.o.g.e. wednesday having a subcommittee hearing on fraud? pres. trump: i want to add what steve said. we want people to come to our country but come in legally. they have to come through -- they have to go through a process and we have to know they haven't killed people and they are out on the loose and we are looking for that individual. this was all that and by biden and a group of bad and stupid people. some are bad, some are stupid, some are both, but i will tell you, what they have done to this country, but we are cleaning it up. hard to believe that it will be better than ever before but we have a lot of people we have to get out. we are searching now for a lot of them. i think tom homan and christie are doing an unbelievable job, kristi noem. they are doing an unbelievable job taking out massive numbers of people. and you notice every country is excepting those people back. remember everyone said no, they will not accept them? they are taking them back. they have to. every single country is. taking want them or not. i don't imagine they do

fraud. very little being put to good use. and transactions, is either corrupt or ridiculous. the agency signs are being removed from its officesthe total usaid budget makes up less than 1% of all us government spending. however, donald trump considers many of the projects out his press secretary listed some of them earlier this week. 10,000 for a transgender opera in colombia. 32,000 for a transgender comic book in peru. supporters of the agency argue that most of the $40 billion budget goes on food aid and health care, vital programmes which have now been shut down. it said stop everything you are doing globally right now, stop it, no matter the human consequences. we have stories of kids who were going in for their tb long line waiting out in the hot sun got the tb the dismantling of usaid is being led by the world's richest man, elon musk. spending, with musk posting on his x platform that he is working to shut it down. staff have been protesting. on forced leave from tonight. some essential programmes will be kept on, like funding we are seeing a lot of disruption of delivery of treatment services, especially at the commun

the investigations with new numbers from the government accountability office. 23% of treasury's whole budget may be waste, fraud, and abuse. that is a quarter of all of the money they spend saying 12% at the labor department and 10% va and 9% hhs and the list is long and goes on and on through the federal agencies. the search to slash spending is not always smooth. today it was discovered the doge web page with the security plot to let anybody post anything they want to do on it but overall the president and vice president are pleased with the way things are coming and they want the whole world to know about it. >> i say that's with volume or, with american democracy can survive ten years have greta thunberg scolding, you guys can survive a few months of elon musk. >> and so how does the vice president vice president wants world leaders on the world stage to know that the new president prioritizes cutting spending over cutting emissions, john periods bill and also, prioritize to speech as well and peter doocy at the white house, thank you. now this. ♪ ♪ >> the prices will go up? >> not necessarily, not necessar

officer school. she argued without evidence the spending she cited is not simply a policy dispute but suggested fraud, which is a crime. >> i would argue that all of these things are fraudulent, wasteful and an abuse of the american taxpayers' dollar. >> reporter: a separate move to halt spending for migrants. the department of homeland security announced that secretary kristi noem clawed back $59 million that had been paid to provide hotel housing for migrants in new york city. the city says it is exploring litigation to get the money back. >> kelly, the president ramped up his demand for cuts at another agency, the department of education. what did he say? >> reporter: the president said he wants the department of education closed immediately. he labeled it as a con job. lashing out at the employees and spending as wasteful. federal education money supplements states and local schools in lower income communities. it's important to note, only congress can eliminate a department, not the president. >> kelly o'donnell, thank you. >>> another plane crash today. this a u.s. navy f-18 falling into san di

offices just after noon. they demanded digital information related to alleged wasteful government spending and fraud. employees refused and called sheriff's deputies, but the men had already left. investigators do not believe this was a legitimate doge inquiry. >> our media partner, the east bay times, is reporting that the now defunct dublin women's prison could be repurposed by the trump administration as a migrant detention center. ice agents have been conducting an assessment of the facility yesterday and today, according to a federal prison leader. he says a structural assessment of the prison was carried out over the summer and was later turned over to ice. two months ago, the federal bureau of prisons announced plans to close the compound after years of sexual abuse led to scores of lawsuits. >> the report is in on the cause of death for an open ai whistleblower. the case had stirred lots of controversy. the ruling from san francisco's medical examiner. >> lives are literally on the line. the funding stopped by the trump administration that could deal a huge setback in fighting hiv. >> a rare

been passed by president trump, to do, to get the fraud waste and abuse out of our federal government to make the bureaucratic re shuffling the agencies office in washington dc has been sail golf and stuff is told to keep out. that's also us age website on social media channels . we're also taking down move in 600 employees. of, of course, is the, the new law that to the agencies computer system. to all these correspondence, ask it tailored delves now into the murky history of us aids for, and meddling. behind the scenes as an old hand and the biggest play in the game. usa. i, they really should have seen it coming. how often movies, decades, could they not have smelt? a president, shutting down here is uh, the, the, the, the, the reason for that as opposed to simply, um, you know, trying to do and do something. and house cleaning is, is that as good again, sir, usa usa id, it became apparent that when we have here is, is not an apple was a woman, it's, but we have actually just a bowl of ones. and so it's as a point which you don't really like for you to go to. apple is go to him and it may even take them out. but if you could actually just

the sheriff's office says the men demanded employees turn ove information related to wasteful government spending and fraudployees at city hall refused their request, and then they called the sheriff's deputies. that's when the men took off. investigators say they don't believe the men were actual representatives from doge. the department of government efficiency. okay, this is the day to get married. it's all about love. hundreds of couples showing up at city hall in san francisco. look at this. the ceremony is performed by volunteers, including mayor lurie, who did a bunch of ceremonies today and other city leaders. couples tell us that they were excited to take part in this special tradition. my mom got married at san francisco city hall, in the same room that marilyn monroe and joe dimaggio did. her marriage didn't last. i hope mine will. maybe we'll get that room and change the luck. they got married right at city hall. marilynonroe. then they had their first honeymoon night in los gatos and then down the central coast. i was at city hall today. i saw a bunch of these people getting married. it was so

fraud scheme. what he's accused fine with district funds. and push to get chances for his office. jobs gain more support. it will expected to enforce for news at 5. well, good wednesday morning to thank you for waking up with this one and early here on wednesday, february 5th, i'm reyna harvey. >> that quite a bit to get to this morning. day after the big storm. there's a lot of damage will talk about that with john shrable. so we want to know, can we expect more rain today? the wind, the rain and it was one for the books for sure. we piling up for a lot of the north bay to which resulted in some flooding. >> good news for us today. as we are calm, we are clear. we are really cold, though. so watch for some frost is you're getting out there might have to scrape the windshield off and a lot of the bay area. this is your view at sfo. so much better than it had been. we are seeing a few lingering snow showers and rain showers to the north of the bay. that's way out of our viewing area, though. so we are nice and quiet this morning. a needed break before the return of rain and snow fo

the other people in the ethics office, everybody who's got a position to monitor waste, fraud and abuse or worse, criminality going on has been fired. so the people actually on the line, the thin blue line to protect the taxpayers, have basically been fired or sidelined to the point that they are the only option they have professionally, in the sense of their own code of conduct, their own conscience is to leave and quit. so this is not just the u.s. attorney over here. i happen to think the inspector general firing is illegal over here. you want to find fraud? inspector generals in 2023, all collectively, $93.1 billion they have identified right now. doge a billion. put those votes on the floor of the senate and the house and have a vote. you'll find $93 billion in savings, but everybody who's responsible to deal with corruption has been sidelined or muzzled, including the fbi, the consumer office, the u.s. attorney, acting u.s. attorney in new york, the inspector general. they're all pieces of a similar puzzle. that's what's going on. and you can't treat them as one offs. and and the

passed by president trump to do, to get the fraud waste and abuse out of our federal government to meet the bureau cross agree, shuffling the agencies offices in washington dc has been field golf and stuff is told to keep out that's off the us aides website on social media channels with taken down. i'm moving 600 of its employees, different quotes of even looks down to the agencies computer system. all these correspondence. jessica taylor delves though into the murky history of us age, following meddling behind the scenes as an old hand and the biggest play in the game, usa i, they really should have seen it coming. how often these decades could they not have smelt a presbyterian shutting down here? is that the, the, the, the reason is that as opposed to simply because, you know, trying to doing to as a minor house leaning is, is that as well? again, sir, usa usa id, it became apparent that what we have here is, is not an apple was a woman, but we have actually just a bowl of ones. and so it's as a point which you don't really like if you go to an apple is go to it, it may even take them out. but if you could actually use the ball of ones,

officers school. but leavitt argued without evidence the spending she cited is not simply a policy dispute but suggested fraud, which is a crime. >> i would argue that all of these things are fraudulent. they are wasteful, and they are an abuse of the american taxpayers' dollar. >> reporter: a second move to halt funding for migrants. kristi noem clawed back $59 million that had been paid to provide hotel housing for migran in new york city. the city says it is exploring litigation to get the money back. >> our thanks to kelly for that report. >>> in new york, the justice department is suing the state over alleged failure to enforce federal immigration law. u.s. attorney general pam bondi said the lawsuit includes governor kathy hochul, letitia james and the head of the state's dmv. it targets a green light law that prevents new york from sharing licenses and information from federal authorities. governor hochul called it worthless and publicity driven. attorney general james said she is prepared to defend state law and the rights of all new yorkers. >>> president trump says he spoke with russian president pu

fraud waste and abuse out of our federal government. the big, the, big across. i agree. shuffling the agencies office in d. c has been sailed off and stuff is told to keep that, that softer usa its website, i'm it, social media channels was taken down within 600 employees of a 450 also be look south to the agencies computer system, aussies costs from excess get taylor belts, now, in the mood key history, us age for and meddling behind the scenes as an old hand and the biggest play in the game, usa i, they really should have seen it coming. how often these decades could they not have smelt a really frustrating shutting down here? is that the reason for that as opposed to simply because you're trying to do do some minor house cleaning you is, is that as you that again, sir, usa usa id, it became apparent that what we have here is, is not an apple was a woman, but we have actually just a bowl of ones. and so it's as a point which you don't really like for you to go to an apple is go to it, it may even take them out. but if you could actually just a ball of ones, it's as hopeless. and you're savvy as a bowl of

office of president. well, 0 is a id as being despond, hold off the decades of corruption fraud and his regime change tactics old being exposed, the n g o. the media offers the pots and with the agency. and now when the process level sun budget cuts at the just the beginning before the end. so now they got their hands on looking for donations. he developed that on our website for now the front that we go over here on the program with the nation's capital turn into a malay is supporters of the democratic republic of the congo locked up with the earlier. it's not about right. there was an organized march to powers, however, of several arrests were made later as protesters began to run page across the area and demonstrated supposedly accusing the one the non weston governments of creating the contents of the d. c. and they do all seem to be seeking the very same tune, but it's time for foreign powers to lee. you've come to the lease territory, the guys the french, they need to get the hell out of the d, r c. and so to the western or is they have to get out of our land because we're calling the lease. we have th

and first buddy elon musk at the resolute desk in the oval office defending their aggressive efforts to overhaul the government and root out fraudalking. the only unelected party in any of this is elon musk. >> you have a criminal president, 34 convictions. no wonder he is happy with elon musk. they are violating the law right and left. >> lawrence: the campaign and overtime. but the election is over. >> ben: yeah, the arguments and tone you heard have already failed. it didn't work. the idea they are breaking the law left and right appeals underway vitriol and over-the-top hyperbole is not doing anybody favors. >> lawrence: not doing any favors. not going to help them win over voters as well. that's why you see the approval rating going up to the president. thanks, guy, appreciate it. >> guy: you bet. >> lawrence: so it's a new dawn for diplomacy, how trump's special envoy steve witkoff secured the release of an american hostage. marc fogel as another american is set to come home today. that's next. ♪ if you have generalized myasthenia gravis, picture what life could look like with vyvgart hytrulo, a subcutaneous injection that

and first buddy elon musk at the resolute desk in the oval office defending their aggressive efforts to overhaul the government and root out fraudthere are certain contracts and certain spending at the federal government that mr. trump and mr. musk don't like. that is what has largely been canceled. >> irony died while he was talking. only unelected party in any of this is elon musk. >> laura: all right, joining me now texas congressman brandon gil. congressman, great to see you. the democrats have been acting like elon musk is satan here because he's actually doing, frankly, what journalists, who care, and frankly what all of you on capitol hill, and you just got to capitol hill, i'm not blaming you, should have been doing all along, which is watching how the money is spent. he's actually doing it and now he's enemy -- public enemy number one? >> well, first of all, laura, thanks for having me on. you know, the hysterics are par for the course for the democrats. you know, the democrat party isn't upset that the federal government is spending hundreds of billions of dollars every single year on wasteful programs and fraudulent p

and according to the government accountability office estimates, 10% of that money could be lost every year to fraudoge want to direct access to this payment system to block certain or redirect federal funds. they want to conduct independent audits and bring a new technology like ai to streamline this system. the treasury secretary scott bessette, well, he underscored the need for a system overhaul last night on fox. listen. >> that's where the real waste for fraud and abuse is. what they are looking at is the treasury is the actual algorithm and how things get paid and whether things are properly accounted for. and i can tell you, just from the information that i've seen, there is very improper accounting. there is no notations. >> so at 2:00 p.m. today, kayleigh, lawyers for the press event on the treasury department will try to convince a federal judge that they should lift a restraining order blocking elon musk and doge from accessing this critical payment system. kayleigh. >> kayleigh: ryan, thank you. you know, en, you are in america first legal and you know what it's going down here and more