vogt get. >> their way. >> and cut off federal grants. >> vogt has shown complete. disregard for democratic institutions. >> he is donald trump's most dangerous nominee. >> vote confirmation tonight comes as elon musk and his cadre of 20 something coders continue to infiltrate federal buildings, plugs things into servers and try to hollow out the united states government from within. today, we learned more about one of those aides to musk. marco alcs is his name. he is the 25 year old doge staff member who reportedly had access to the treasury department's most sensitive payment systems, the one that controls $6 trillion of payments, a fifth of the u.s. economy today, a wall street journal reporter linked to a now deleted social media account full of racist and hateful statements, including, for one example, i was racist before it was cool. shortly after that, reporter reached out to the trump administration for comment, the white house said ellis had suddenly resigned from his role with doge, although one has to imagine he was a little confused about why he was bei

vogt believes in the unitary executive theory. this was a once fringe legal theory that posits that the president has unilateral control over the executive branch. it rejects the idea of bureaucratic independence. it proposes that the president has expansive powers to ensure that his political ideology is carried out in the bureaucracy, as he wants. this is antithetical to what we in the western world believe a bureaucracy is. this includes the epa, the justice department, and even the federal reserve, under which the cfpb operates. vogt has strong views about the federal workforce as well. during a speech in 2023, he said, quote, we want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected when they wake up in the morning. we want them not to go to want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. and, quote the villains. who could that be? our administrative assistants, the villains, the nih scientists and researchers, federal agents and prosecutors, environmental regulators? air traffic controllers? are they the

>> guardians manager and former a's and giants catcher stephen vogt back in town this weekend, dublin'son naming their family center after vogt to recognize his ten years of support helping special needs children. >> the best part is since it was 10 1/2, 11 years ago, i see kids now still they come to a's games, come to giants games when they are there, stephen, remember me? yes. i remember when you were in second grade at school of imagination. what are you doing now? i'm in college? oh, i'm old, but also it's so neat to see the growth of the children. >>> cool story, glenn. >> oh, this was cool sunday. south carolina retired the number 22 of a'ja wilson, a four-time all american and now three-time wnba mvp with the las vegas aces. wilson led the gamecocks to the program's first natty, but that wasn't the only 22 to go to the rafters. check it out. iowa basketball honored its most famous alum, caitlin clark, the ncaa's all-time leading scorer and led the hawkeyes to back-to-back final fours. clark and the indiana fever will be at chase center june 19th for a wnba game at the golden sta

. >> vogt served as omb director at the end of the first trump administration, but it was his work. when trump was out of office that has drawn the ire of democrats. vogt wrote a key chapter of project 2025, a 900 page blueprint for trump's second term that would impose an ultra conservative social agenda and enhance trump's power. >> in that chapter, he wrote a lot about how he believed that the president has really expansive authority. the president can do almost anything that the president wants to do. >> specifically, vogt wants to hand more of the government's purse strings over to the president's control. for the trump administration to not have to spend the money that congress tells it to. >> they believe that that the president has the power to stop payments and to redirect money. how they see fit. >> last year, in a hotel suite, vogt spoke to two men who he thought were relatives of a wealthy conservative donor. they turned out to be with a british nonprofit journalistic outlet and were secretly recording him. he spoke about his behind the scenes efforts to plan trump's sec

>> reporter: democrats are also protesting russell vogt's nomination to lead the office of management and budget, delivering speeches late into the night on the senate floor, in fact, promising an all-night session. vogt was a co-author of prect 2025 and president trump has described him as an aggressive cost cutter. a final vote is expected today. and he is expected to be approved along party lines. frances? >> alice, thank you. >>> the drastic changes in washington, d.c. have federal workers all across the country feeling shocked and panicked. hallie jackson spoke to some of them. >> reporter: from fury to fear. >> will my position remain? >> reporter: a range of reactions from federal workers. >> none of this is okay. >> reporter: as the president pushes to scale back the size of government across all agencies, including usaid, which officially terminated kristina dry. >> it's heartbreaking. because we know that people are going to be less healthy, less safe, through no choice of our own. >> reporter: what does this mean for your life for the short term here? >> yeah, i think in 10

vogt directed the agency to stop work on proposed rules, pause any rules set to go into effect, and stop ongoing investigations. it was created during the obama administration following the 2008 financial crisis. >> president trump has also ordered a plan to make a facility at guantanamo bay, which he says could hold up to 30,000 migrants. two flights of migrants have already been sent to that naval base. but as fox's cb cotton shows us, the plans are facing considerable backlash. >> dhs secretary kristi noem is standing by the legality of the administration's mass deportation plans, which include guantanamo bay. the criticism is coming primarily from the american civil liberties union about the living conditions and due process for the migrants who are being shipped there. gnome tells fox the military is on the ground to make sure the facilities meet u.s. standards, and she also says the migrants being taken to gitmo are dangerous criminals. >> of course, we're giving due process to migrants. we've done that all the time following the same procedures we always have been. but where are t

i would just say that russ vogt's aim is really to destroy the government from the inside out.inister motive, which is also to kind of grease the skids for his new business interests. we know that elon musk is interested in starting his own payment app. he's partnered with visa to do that. and so he has a real interest in ensuring that the cfpb isn't blocking an effort like that. but he also has an interest in getting into something like the consumer financial protection bureau, which has trade secrets from enforcement actions against some of his likely future competitors. >> so this brings me to my last question, which is relative to what you've written about the new the. today, the federal judge ordering that temporary block of d.o.j. employee access to sensitive treasury payment systems. you wrote about this in the in the column saying that there are several reasons that musk wants to control these payments. none of them are good. and the new york times reports musk allies wanted access so they could freeze foreign aid payments. so what do musk's actions so far? what do they

as politico notes, vogt has said he wants to inflict trauma on the federal workforce, dismantle an elitist, and shake the very foundations of american government he believes has been captured by an administrative state. >> look, guys, we knew this was coming. we talked about it for almost a year before it happened. everybody put their head in the sand and pretended as if it wasn't going to happen. they believed the crap coming out of trump's mouth that he didn't know what this was. and now they're running around this town and around the country going, wait a minute, hold up. can he do that? how can he do that? well, they laid it out at 900 pages for you folks. >> they laid it out in 900 pages. and i actually thought there's something very particular that he wrote in the section about the omb director, because, reminder, he is both the protagonist and the author of this. he wrote about this role, omb director, though some mistakenly regard it as a mere paper pushing exercise. the president's budget is, in fact, a powerful mechanism for setting and enforcing public policy at federal agencies

energy secretary, as well as to advance that nomns of pam bondi to be attorney general and russell vogts white house budget director. the house gavels and tuesday a noon eastern. members will consider legin to provide an that criminally classify fentanyl related subsidence as schedule one drugs that haveong as controls and penalties. watch live coverage on c-span, the senate oan2. all of our congressional coverage is on our free mobile app, c-span now, and online at c-span.org. >> c-span, democracy unfiltered. we are funded by these television companies and more, including midco. ♪ >> where are you going? or maybe a better question is how far do you want to go? and how fast do you want to get there? now, we are getting somewhere. so, let's go. let's go faster. let's go further. let's go beyond.

. >> the latest democratic gambit an all-night session which delays the confirmation of us are vogt asudget director. democrats can hinder the vote until thursday night. all this really does did is put off the inevitable. bret? >> bret: chad pergram live on the hill. chad, thanks. gains for most stocks outweigh the drops for the alphabet companies and other big name companies following their latest profit reports. the dow was up 317. the s&p 500 gained 24. the nasdaq finished ahead 38. up next brit hume on president trump's plans for gaza and the speed at which he is implementing his agenda. first, here is what some our fox affiliates are covering tonight. fox 28 in columbus, ohio. with the arrest of a suspect shooting one person dead and five others injured. new albany police accrues bruce reginald faster iii opening fire at a warehouse where he is employed. fox 5 in new york as the national women's soccer league says it will establish a $5 million fund for players. it's part of a settlement stemming from allegations eve emotional and sexual misconduct that rocked the league in 2021.

the vote for vogt was 53 to 47. project 2025 policy agenda that president trump distanced himself from during the campaign. and uk security officials are pressing apple to create a new way for them to gain access to any user's cloud storage data. the washington post reports that that includes british citizens, but also any other apple user worldwide. sources told the paper that apple would probably stop offering encrypted storage in the uk in response, but that wouldn't necessarily protect users in other countries. >> meantime, tesla shares or i should say, sales. but shares falling in china last month despite recent price cuts. the company sold about 63,000 cars in january, down 11% from last year's more than 71,000. tesla has been facing increasing ev competition in china. local rivals byd, selling close to 300,000 electric and plug in hybrid cars last month. and that number was up 47% year over year. what do you make of that? it's unbelievable. >> i don't know. yeah. i'm not sure what's happening in china, but it

democrats have been concerned about vogt's ties to project 2025, and its false claims that the 2020 election >> and number six, rain not really impacting the morning commute just yet. we're just seeing some sprinkles, but that could change soon. and you can see here the bay bridge upper deck is crowded this morning. highway four to san francisco one hour, three minutes. >> number seven gott's roadside is about to offer you a sweet treat. they're opening a cookie counter at san francisco's ferry building. it will be next to its soft serve counter. it's expected to open in april. ooh. >> i love a good cookie. i love a good cookie. >> yeah, not just a cookie. and you want it right out of the oven. >> i want it soft. i want to see the melted chocolate chips. >> oh, yeah. they better be big. oh, yeah. you know, with. >> the soft serve. >> can you imagine, like eating at this point? a store bought cookie that's been sitting in there for weeks >> george: good morning america for our viewers in the west. major winter storm hitting now, deadline day for federal buyout offer, and we're live in new orl

democrats have been concerned about vogt's ties to project 2025, and its false claims that the 2020 election six rain not impacting your morning drive just yet. we're going to take a look at your drive. times tracy to dublin 30 minutes. san rafael to san francisco 19 minutes antioch to concord 14 minutes. >> number seven crayola says eight nostalgic crayon colors are coming back by popular demand. some of the colors coming out of retirement include dandelion, blizzard, blue and magic mint. today is the nba trade deadline for the warriors, and they've had a tough go this year, attracting top talent. but they've just made a big announcement there in the works to finalize a deal to bring jimmy butler to san francisco. butler has agreed to a new two year, $121 million extension with the franchise through 2026 and 2027. to get him, the warriors are sending andrew wiggins, dennis schroder and kyle anderson and a protected first round pick to miami. >> we expect to have a motivated, committed you know jimmy that's ready to impact our team for the for the better. >> butler is a six time all star, a

but secondly, we are fighting this in the courts because what this president and people like vogt areaw. we are going through our court system as well to make sure that we stop these illegal actions. and i want to say to everyone out there, we are being inundated by stories about websites that you've seen taken down. that means that your community preschool can't get access to funds. or to a forester who just told me this morning he can't get access to the portal that allows them to get to get the funds for firefighting equipment for our firefighters who are hosting or who are trying to fight forest fires. we need your stories. you know why? because they're not letting us in either. so your voice, your story, you're talking to all of us and telling us what's going on, on the ground allows us to speak out. speak up, makes republicans hear us, too, but critically helps us make the case in the courts about why this is lawless. >> senator patty murray, thank you for taking time out of your busy day to speak with us. we appreciate it. thank you. and coming up, a multi-million dollar theft

russell vogt, who is now the head of the omb, the same guy who did that back then and encouraged that idea and denied the success of the reality of the 2020 elections, is now in charge of the office of management and budget. so it's that 922 page document that nobody wanted to read is now coming to fruition. >> and he's one of the architects of it. in fact, when he left the trump administration in the first term, he and many of the friends and mega-donors in their circles, you know, reached out to the heritage foundation. they helped establish these other organizations, and they literally wrote the document and put together the legal theories. and by the way, the executive orders that donald trump signed on day one. so all of this is not these are not isolated activities. they're all part of a larger strategy that this group of folks who've come back into office, who are trying to steal our government and dismantle our agencies and steal our democracy from us, are executing on that they've planned for several years. >> there's this neat thing going on because a lot of people are kind

and it's russell vogt's job to prevent that waste from further continuing.and forth that's going to continue for some time. but right now, chris, republicans and the trump administration are in the driver's seat. it may be some time before the rest of the american public sees the full impact of these decisions that they're making. >> chris ryan nobles, thank you. there was some rare bipartisanship in congress. 98 democrats voting in favor, along with 214 of their republican counterparts passing the holt fentanyl act last night. the bill classifies street versions of fentanyl related substances as schedule one drugs. that means they have a high potential for abuse, and it gives law enforcement more power to crack down on drug traffickers. the holt fentanyl act is now headed to the senate, where it is expected to pass. dhs secretary kristi noem is visiting guantanamo bay today, looking firsthand at the notorious military detention center where the trump administration plans to house tens of thousands of migrants. now, it's not the first time it's been used for

vogt will soon be. >> the head of omb. >> but anthony, things like. >> pgp. >> we knew that there. >> was the fraud. >> and one. >> of the reasons the government. >> hasn't gone after all the perpetrators is because they didn't they didn't have enough. >> employees in. >> the. >> government to. >> do it. >> and so. >> the next. >> move we're. >> seeing. >> is let's get rid. >> of. >> the government employees. >> so is the. is the real move here. >> let's just take. >> the government. >> down to. >> its studs. >> so it's nothing and privatize the whole thing. >> i think so. and also, you. >> know. >> elon musk has interests with the government. his companies get billions in subsidies from the government. and he's who's to say he's not rooting. >> out his competitors. >> particularly in the pentagon. so yeah, i mean, as you say, there were obvious. >> places to go. >> and we're going. >> to the. >> places that they'd prefer to go. >> people are, you know. >> when you criticize elon musk's doge team. that are this small group of very, very young men, people. >> say. >> don't be ageist. >

vogt will soon be the head of omb. >> but anthony, things like pgp, we knew that there was the fraud, and one of the reasons the government hasn't gone after all the perpetrators is because they didn't they didn't have enough employees in the government to do it. and so the next move we're seeing is let's get rid of the government employees. so is the is the real move here. let's just take the government down to its studs so it's nothing and privatize the whole thing. >> i think so. and also. >> you know, elon. >> musk has interests with the government. his companies get billions in subsidies. >> from the government. >> and he's who's to say he's not rooting out his competitors, particularly in the pentagon. so yeah, i mean, as you say, there were obvious places to go. and we're going to the places that they'd prefer to go. >> people are, you know, when you criticize elon musk's doge team that are this small group of very, very young men, people say, don't be ageist. they might be super talented, they might know what they're doing. >> some have special attributes. >> yes, but but but

vogt's quote that he wants to quote, put them in trauma, something that was so sadistic he didn't stand suffers the most? >> well, i mean, look, i think about those kids who are dyslexic. i think about all of the nonprofits that i work with, that and the students that i work with to try and get into school. like, i think about all of these people who are suffering because what they're doing is, as we talked about, sort of destroying everything and consolidating power. there was a report today that he's trying to take over the kennedy center. so with respect. to trump that he's trying to replace the board of the kennedy center, because and i'm just like, why? it's true, of course. but that's my point. >> oh, it. >> is so i'm thinking because that's the only thing they could be thinking. >> can we black people and too many women at the kennedy honors every year? >> that's the thing i'm thinking. right. and so my point is, with all of this, they really want control. control of who you are, who you love, what you eat, how you how you act day to day, what you like, what you don't like, what