i'm not saying that mike smith isjesus christ.nd throughout history, it appears as a human race there's always somebody that's being used as an example. my feed is flooded with, "this is how you trick spotify into spinning your song more so that you can get more revenue." using bots, do you think it should be illegal or...? no, it shouldn't be illegal! do you think that is fraud? no. what are you going to...? it's here. it's already here. i do not believe the do] and the fbi have of the food chain. someone who they have full jurisdictional control over in the united states to set the precedent they need to go so, what now? mike has been charged with wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy these are all federal crimes which each carry the music industry for years, yet this alleged conduct has never been criminally prosecuted under these statutes before. this is a unique case, and mr smith looks forward make waves in the music business. i think it's wonderful. time in music history. look around the table. in five years, we're all going to

this is goldy locks, a businesswoman, i'm not saying that mike smith isjesus christ.oughout into spinning your song more so that you can get more revenue." using bots, do you think it should be illegal or...? no, it shouldn't be illegal! do you think that is fraud? what are you going to...? it's here. it's already here. it's not going anywhere. many artists, like goldy, are unhappy with how little they're paid for streams, but that doesn't change pool his fellow artists receive payments from. so how big of a problem is streaming fraud? that aims to detect fraud on streaming platforms. a lot of the professional scammers, they don't onto different streaming services and then slowly play each song. so no—one notices the song that only has a thousand plays, you can make a lot of money. i do not believe the d0] and the fbi have any illusions that $10 million is like the top of the food chain. someone who they have full jurisdictional control over in the united states to set the precedent they need to go so, what now? a maximum sentence of 20 years behind bars. he's pled no

reporter: someone on social media floated an idea, hiring professional search teams, including mike smith >> reporter: a deer right there. with their nearly 20-time video zoom to find animals even in densely wooded areas. is this to you undeniable proof of the love that humans have for their pets? >> they meet me at their worst moment, lost a family member. >> reporter: how the search works. smith has the drone overhead. you can see our crew on the thermal imagery so clear. then video, see how easy we are to spot. finding lost pets the bulk of his business. >> some days after my day job i'm doing two separate searches for dogs. >> reporter: nationwide, it's a growing trend, desperate owners paying drone operators hundreds of dollars to find their furry friend. >> jack, look it's daddy! >> reporter: from oklahoma. >> jack, it's mother. >> reporter: to colorado. >> good job. >> reporter: to massachusetts. >> i missed you. >> reporter: this burgeoning industry, time and time again, churning out happy homecomings like charlie's. >> mike. >> reporter: as for charlie, the gentle giant recoverin

including mike smith of smithic air who uses special heat-sensing drones. >> oh, my gosh.ime video zoom to find animals hidden even in densely-wooded areas. is this just, to you, like undeniable proof of the love that humans have for their pets? >> they meet me when they're at their worst moment, really. they've lost a family member. >> reporter: smith has his drone overhead right now. first,t, can y see our drew in the field on the thermal imagery. the heat sources have so clear. then he switches to video. you can see how easy we are to spot. finding lost pets now the bulk of smith's business. >> there are some days that i'm going out after my day job and searching two totally separate searches for dogs. >> reporter: nationwide, it's a growing trend, with desperate owners coast-to-coast paying drone operators hundreds of dollars to find their furry friends. >> jack! look, it's daddy! >> reporter: from oklahoma. >> oh, jack! jack, it's mama. >> reporter: to colorado. >> good job. >> reporter: to massachusetts. >> oh, i missed you. >> reporter: this burgeoning industry time

missouri, eric smith and mike davis. >> thank you. >> thank you for coming.e are going to talk about big tech, google, amazon, facebook and apple and what we need to do end their gate keeper power over information and started under the trump 45 administration where we saw our 100-year-old ant thy trust laws get dusted off and ended big tech's ant thy trust amnesty and want to use ant thy trust which is law enforcement to go after these these big tech monopoly. they have too much power and anticompetitive. and i always said that the biden administration did right was they continued president trump's antitrust enforcement under the antitrust and president trump is committed to finishing the job. you see this with his appointment of andrew ferguson to chair the federal trade commission and seeing it with president trump's pick of gail slater to lead the ant thy trust division. these big tech crush competition and shutter small businesses and cancel conservatives and others with whom they disagree. i will tell you the tip of the sphere has been senator smith from

chairman mike smith reports into the record. >> in your experience, he.abeh: the benefits of these healthy living programs wellness activities, and the impact it could have finally for the prevention of chronic disease bute also for long-term health this will saving money enter healthcare systems. >> thank you and happy to speak to that. no mention in my introduction remarks that we've been offering this vitality program for ten years now. so weav have a great deal of daa to set ports what you are saying in terms of engaging people and providing incentives and education incentives and support and even rewards as i mentioned for undertaking greater levels of physical activity run trying to turn all of the customer's into a marathon runners, son about that meet people where they are take a few extra steps a day to be more physically active likewise on the nutrition front but engaging people come the right way supportively created time with clever incentives and rewards can indeed change long-term health outcomes which is good for everybody involved so by ho

mike: we'll see who blinks first. thanks a lot. >> you've got it. >> for more on this, let's bring in constitutional attorney mark smith. welcome. >> hi, mike. with maine. the department of education saying to maine, let's be clear, if maine wants to continue to receive federal funds from the education department it has to follow title ix. if it wants to forego title ix and trample the rights of its female athletes, that's its choice. and they'll make sure that taxpayers are not funding blatant civil rights violators. how does this play out, mark? >> i think in the end president trump has the better argument. because he has the united states constitution on his side. the u.s. constitution specifically has what's called the supremacy clause that says to the extent there's a conflict between federal law which could include federal regulations by way, mike, and state law, you have to follow the federal law and that was the point that president trump was making yesterday. to the extent that there's a violation of title ix, let's say, by the state of maine, then all sorts of recourses are available to the federal government and by the way, mike,

smith. he was asked whether or not mike he would want to be president.s his response. >> i have no interest in being a politician. i have no interest in running for office. but if people came to me and my. >> money was. >> right and i didn't have anything to worry about, and they said, stephen, we just want you to be in the white house, because that's the only office i would be interested in. i wouldn't be interested in being one of 100 senators, and i wouldn't be. i sure wouldn't be interested in being one of 435 congressional figures. but if you told me that i could be the president of the united states of america, i'm not going to sit up there and tell you that i would not strongly entertain that. yes, i would. >> well, that's not why the offer that usually gets made, mike, on this point. but i wonder, would stephen a smith, is he valuable to democrats? oh. what are you reading? >> yeah. you know. >> he's reading the book. is he valuable? >> well hold on, laura, let me let me let me pontificate if i may do my stephen smith impression here for you. lau

smith. congressman, welcome. >> i appreciate it. mike is your reaction to the hostages looking frail being released and returned to israel? >> it's a good step that some of the hostages are being released and points out the devastating impact of the war of the last, gosh, 16 months now and the need to stop it. the humanitarian crisis is overwo overw overwhelming. and we need to work on the deal that's cut and make sure the next steps get put in place. >> prime minister benjamin netanyahu was in washington for several days this week. what is your assessment of the coordination between him and the situation in the middle east? >> it seemed fairly close. i think that clearly netanyahu and president trump get along well and will work together. that leads to the more difficult question. what the president proposed is, while it's horrible policy. first of all, we're not supposed to be spending a whole lot of money overseas apparently. it's going to be billions of dollars to rebuild gaza. is the u.s. really going to foot that bill? second of al

how the hell is looking at this, you have the people in the house like house speaker mike johnson and arrington and smith, who want one broader what they're calling reconciliation bill to get down, to get done. a lot of the president's priorities, all the things from the border to taxes to energy. however, we've also seen people in the senate, senate republicans kind of grow impatient with waiting on the house. we have people like senator lindsey graham and majority leader john thune, all of them wanting to give donald trump an early win on some of those key priorities. they are pushing for two bills. the white house position right now and the president, he said he really just wants to do anything that will get his agenda passed. >> and i want to follow up with something else, an israeli political source tells cnn that israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has gifted president trump a golden pager. tell us more about the meaning behind that. >> right. and so this was a reporting from our colleague based in jerusalem, mick krever. he reported that israeli prime minister benjamin, as you mentioned, pam

smith off the puck. he and pasta combine again. came in with a nine-game point streak, now ten. pastrnak has 13 goals in 2025. >> mikeve enough with a ten-game point streak. you saw the 22 points over that stretch as well for pasta. fox carries in for the rangers. off the back post. >> ray: that's a second time he's shot one from a sharp angle. swayman was not set and boy did he get lucky. >> mike: he pivoted and hung his head as we he went to the bench. you spotted it earlier when he did it at the other end of the ice. >> ray: by the goal line. there's no angle or virtually tno angle. that bounced off swayman, and this was directly off the post. >> mike: inside of eight minutes to go. charlie coyle, got to it along the wall. tried to nudge it out for lindholm. instead, lindgren back for j.t. miller. to panarin. rink wide on a delivery for ryan lindgren. he will fling it around. j.t. miller on the receiving end. stripped of the puck, lindholm fighting for it. couldn't exit the zone. coyle does, bumped up ahead, marchand bearing down, but shesterkin comes out to miller, in across the logo, got it wide for zibanejad. b

up next, chevron ceo mike wirth and congressman jason smith of missouri. the exceptionalism is still firmly in place. but the fundamentals underpinning this exceptionalism are at risk. >> almost all of the policies we have heard floated from washington do have an inflationary element. but markets will care less if it comes with the side of growth. >> the fog now is so dense in terms of what this is going to mean for business capex, what this is going to mean inflation -- mean for inflation. >> is sort of gives them cover to not do very much as they sort out what is going on. >> this is "bloomberg surveillance." jonathan: reluctance to offer guidance. you heard if there from kevin gordon of charles schwab. the fog right now is so dense. we just caught up with a fed official. did not want to be pinned down about anything about the future. as for the bias to ease, what bias? a lot of people are in deposition right now. lisa: as i was thinking with all of those comments, how many ways can you say, i have no clue? that is what everybody is saying again and agai

i hereby appoint the honorable adrian smith to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, mike johnson, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 20 tax the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties, with time equally allocated between the parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 1:50 p.m. the chair recognizes the member from pennsylvania, mr. joyce, for five minutes. mr. joyce: thank you, mr. speaker. during the last five months of president biden's term, he imposed more than 1,500 regulations on the american people. our policies should be focused on fostering economic growth for small businesses not weighing them down with more regulations. this week, the house will vote on the midnight rules and relief act. this legislation gives congress the ability to overtur

. >> ladies and gentlemen, up next please welcome senator from missouri, eric smith and mike davis. >ank you. >> thank you for coming. we are going to talk about big tech, google, amazon, facebook and apple and what we need to do end their gate keeper power over information and started under the trump 45 administration where we saw our 100-year-old ant thy trust laws get dusted off and ended big tech's ant thy trust amnesty and want to use ant thy trust which is law enforcement to go after these these big tech monopoly. they have too much power and anticompetitive. and i always said that the biden administration did right was they continued president trump's antitrust enforcement under the antitrust and president trump is committed to finishing the job. you see this with his appointment of andrew ferguson to chair the federal trade commission and seeing it with president trump's pick of gail slater to lead the ant thy trust division. these big tech crush competition and shutter small businesses and cancel conservatives and others with whom they disagree. i will tell you the tip of the

republican staff catherine, katrina wilson, lillian meadows, mike jones, melissa blisner, josh smith, and tyler evishe, they're all written down. i apologize to the families of those i just insulted. that's it. the presiding officer: without objection. the chair recognizes the senator from oregon. mr. merkley: i ask unanimous consent that chance mitchell be granted floor privileges during consideration of resolution 7. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. merkley: thank you. mr. reed: mr. president. the presiding officer: recognize the senator from rhode island. mr. reed: thank you. the receiptic of donald trump and republicans is all over the map. here's what's important to know. republicans want $4.5 trillion in tax cuts primarily for the richest americans paid for with sharp cuts in programs that help average americans and the most vulnerable in our society. yesterday i spoke on the floor about one of the most cynical parts of this resolution, gutting health care for children, seniors, and americans with disabilities through extreme cuts to medicaid and the children's heal

smith in new york. john, great to be with you. >> it's want to be a big afternoon. lots going on in washington. i'm johnny washington doll mike

smith in new york. john, great to be with you. >> it's want to be a big afternoon. lots going on in washington. i'm johnny washington doll mike roberts. today, the cease-fire in gaza. a truce the president says is not guaranteed to hold. >> meantime, terms tariffs to stand up with china -- remains in place after securing tentative deals with canada and mexico. beijing has countered his 10% levy on importing goods for retaliatory tariffs. senator rand paul on deck to react. first, alexandria hoff has more from the white house. >> good to be with you. given the somewhat limited scope of the retaliatory tariffs posed by china, it's clear that there is interest in a dialogue, president trump and president xi jinping are slated to talk as early as this week. it's expected to happen sometime this week. lightly not today because of the time change. president trump's tariff on all chinese goods kicked in shortly after midnight. >> we will have some good meetings with china. we have meetings planned. we will see what happens. that was just an opening salvo. if we can't make a deal with china, the tariffs will be very, very substantial

mike turner. plus, analysis from our powerhouse round table. >>> and mind games. ahead of tonight's super bowl rematch, former nfl quarterback alex smith takes us inside the all-important mental game to play on football's biggest stage. >>> good morning, and welcome to "this week," and what a week. the relentless headlines can seem overwhelming. more federal agencies targeted, more court cases filed, more chaos and confusion, and that may be the point. under president trump's guidance, elon musk's department of government efficiency taking an axe to the country's foreign aid program usaid while setting their sights next on the education department, and the pentagon, all part of an effort to massively reduce federal spending, but this is where things stand as we come on the air this morning. ahead of a monday deadline, at least 65,000 federal workers have agreed to take buyouts so far, and doge has gained access to at least 10 federal agencies where they are targeting more cuts to the federal work force, andov overnight, the government watchdog charged with safeguarding american consumers' finances has been effectively shut down. employ

speaker mike johnson and house ways and means chair jason smith is pushing for the tax cuts and jobspackage that only provides temporary relief from tax hikes. joining us now, republican senator steve daines. he took the lead on the letter as a member of the finance committee. and you've. got some good company here. senator. you got majority leader thune and crapo. barrasso, blackburn. all have signed. i remember the first time this went through. you remember. that for budgetary reasons, it was only going to last for so long. it was kind of that, you know, the way to sort of fit in. >> to, you know, budget worries. >> and. >> deficit worries. >> made it. what's the word i'm. >> looking for? it was. >> going to sunset. should it not have been done that way. >> look at all. >> the. >> time we spent. >> talking about what to do. >> once these things expire. now. maybe that was a mistake in the first place. hence why you want to make them permanent now. >> well, i hope. >> we can learn from our mistakes. the single most important thing congress can do. to keep this. economy growing is. >

i wanted to speak to mike smith to hear his side of the story, pool his fellow artists receive paymentsrom. so how big of a problem is streaming fraud? live from london, this is bbc news. the us suggests there won't be a seat for europe at peace talks on ending the ukraine war, with only the us, russia and ukraine set to be directly involved. european leaders will hold an emergency summit instead. marco rubio makes his first visit to the middle east as us secretary of state. he's set to meet top israeli officials for talks on gaza's future.