news headquarters, i'm mike emanuel. ducklo releasing his own apology around the same time the news from the white house. mar meredith with the details of the press shake-up. mark: white house deputy secretary is embarrassed by his behavior that was first reported and made public that he threatened a reporter of politico that was looking at a story about ducklo's relationship with another female report near dc. ducklo is no stranger to the biden team. he nerved as the national press secretary during the campaign and so there's been a lot of talk about what kind of fallout from this was going to be. he's regularly interacted with reporters so the reports that he would threaten a female reporter caught a lot of people by surprised. on friday ducklo's boss jen psaki said he apologized and would be suspended one week without pay and the white house facing questions whether or not this was a too lenient of a punishment considering the president's first comments on day in office. >> i'm not joking when i say this, if you're ever working with me and i hear you treat another colleague with disrespect, talk down to someone, i promise you i will fire you on the spot. mark: that was on january 20th, we got a statement from the white house last night where they say we are committed to striving every day to meet the standards set by the president in treating others with dig any and respect and civility and the value for others and through our words and our actions. now ducklo released his own statement last night promising to learn from his actions. he also asked people not to judge him forever on the one incident. it's unclear who will replace him in the post. here at the white house quiet, president biden will come back tomorrow. this week a major focus on the pandemic looking not only at the coronavirus relief bill but trying to increase the amount of vaccinations that are happening. the president is going to be going to michigan on thursday to tour a pfizer facility as they try to up the doses that get out there for the public, mike. mike: festive background in the north lawn, happy valentine's day. mark: happy valentine's to you, buddy. mike: live from the north lawn, mark thanks a lot. david spunt joins now with more. david: not only raised tens of millions of dollars but spent tens of millions of dollars to on ads to take then president trump at the time and the group that's taking shots at others is facing backlash not only on its spending but also some troubling allegations of sexual misconduct. mike weaver, has been around for decades in this town, he's been accused by 21 men who told "the new york times" that he sent sexually explicit text messages and in some cases promised jobs and other access in exchange for sex. in one case, a 14--year-old boy was receiving those texts messages. there are reports that weaver is under criminal investigation. "the new york times" report that texting did not lead to physical encounters except in one consensual case. one of the founders to have lincoln ground steve schmidt resigned on friday from the lincoln project board and staying with the organization and stepping down after publicly criticizing another original of the project jennifer horn. she expressed disgust over allegations and others with the lincoln project want to be released from their nondisclosure agreements regarding the john weaver allegations. now i mentioned spending at the top of this report, the group facing questions over money out of $90 million raised around, $24 million went to some strategic communications owned by reed galen, that's a cofounder of the lincoln project. he's listed as a treasurer in fcc documents. $20 million to tusk digital owned by another lincoln project ron steslow. steve responded to some questions about the group's finances friday night with bill mahr. >> out of $87 million that was raised by the lincoln project, about 63 to 66 million of that money went to voter conduct. >> where did the other money go? >> the law requires that you make disclosures, but you don't have to disclose subcontractor payments. mark: in a statement, mike, quoted by the associated press, steve schmidt who you saw right there said he would be happy to open books with the lincoln project and would do so only if president trump's campaign opens up its books, also other political action committees affiliated with the trump campaign. mike. mike: one would think a lot of the donors want him to open books. thanks a lot. with more senior adviser to the 45th president jason miller, welcome. >> good to be with you. mike: what is your assessment of the implosion at the lincoln project? >> karma is a you know what, mike, and what we have seen from the lincoln project is about them making money. this has never been about ideological pursuit or some real deep-seeded hatred against president trump. it's low-life drifters that have been trying to enrich themselves. i think the american people really are now getting a look at what this group has been about and there's no excuse for fully grown man to be texting a 14-year-old boy. that's disgusting and and reprehensible and he has bad stuff coming this way from the criminal justice system. mike: do the founders to have lincoln project have explaining to do on where the money went specifically? jason: i think absolutely. and i think that there could be some investigations that do happen. we have seen a lot of that happen from the criminal reports and i think also for a lot of these lincoln project donors. they should be asking questions about where the money went. they should be asking for refunds quite frankly and for a lot of them, when you take a look at jeffrey, look at other folks, think about this, they were funding someone who was pocketing money -- who was out there texting all these people with inappropriate things and texting with a 14-year-old boy. that was the leadership of the lincoln project. so if you were a donor to this organization and you were funding these people, i think you probably want your money back or you should be doing some kind of public disclaimer saying you want nothing to do with these people ever in the future. mike: to the future of the republican party when your party is not in the white house, there are a range of leaders of the republican party whether they be leaders on capitol hill, governor, former presidents, what's your view of the future of the republican party at this point? jason: well, i think it really -- it still start in the future of the republican party is with president trump and we need to take a look back at the 2020 election and realize that president trump received almost 10 million more votes than any incumbent president in the history, record numbers with african-american voters, latino american voters, asian american voters and if we want to grow the party, too often we look at -- look at this about where we go and grow numbers this way and grow numbers this way. what this is about showing the republican party is about the working people of america. this is how we go and make this a more inclusive effort of bringing more people in. i think president trump did that despite the media -- the mainstream media constantly attacking him and trying to paint him as some sort of caricature that he's not. this is our opportunity to build from here and i wished that some of the leaders on capitol hill would realize that, stay with president trump and working on this and you know what, let's go win the house back for republicans in 2022. let's win the senate back in 2022. this is our time to come together, let the democrats play their divisive games. we are the ones that should be leaders here. mike: looking ahead to the 2022 races how many trump allies do you think winning, i'm thinking laura trump, for example? jason: we have had an initial meeting and talked about some of the key races where we are going to help. certainly a number of allieses will be up in 2022 both in house and senate and we want to make sure that we do that. i don't have any ideas scoop on laura trump in particular but i think she's the immediate front runner, you would think i have the inside scoop, i don't necessarily. a little bit of a dodge there. i hope she runs. i think she would be great and i think she would be a great value to the people of north carolina where she was born and raised. but there's going to be a lot of candidates that president trump is going to be getting behind in. i think some folks might not realize, president trump has $75 million in his save america leadership pac, that money is going to be used to help candidate who is really believe in this america first agenda, who believe on getting us out of the forever wars and making sure that we are setting a tax system that help people and school choice and all the things president trump pushed during 4 years in office. we want to make sure that the effort continues and president trump is going to be the one, look, if we are going to win back the house and the senate, it's going to be because of president trump. mike: well, it was worth a shot asking about laura. jason miller, thank you so much for your time. have a great day. growing calls for new york governor andrew cuomo to resign. i jumped the gun a bit. growing calls for new york andrew cuomo to resign over allegations of hiding the true number of the covid deaths in the nursing homes. alex hogan live in new york city with the latest, hello, alex. alex: i'm outside of new york governor andrew cuomo's city office here today growing calls to step down, even today breaking calling for a special session this week. >> we have a member, mike, that said he was working to bring articles of impeachment to the floor of the assembly. i think, again, that illustrates that there is a lot of anger, there's a lot of concern that there was criminality here and there is a lot of thought that maybe there's enough evidence to bring these articles of impeachment. alex: the death toll of nursing home residents nearly doubling the tragic numbers jumping from 8500 to 15,000 nursing home patients. bipartisan anger after a conversation this week between new york's democratic lawmakers and a top aide to the governor melissa de rosa, de rosa admitted that the cuomo administration had been withholding the true number of deaths. de rosa clarifying that the administration releasing data before lawmakers. as i said on the call with legislators, we could not fulfill requests as quickly as we would like. early in the pandemic many lawmakers looked to cuomo as an example of transparency and daily briefing updates giving consistency in a time of uncertainty. president biden even calling cuomo the gold standard last year. the comments, however, were made days before cuomo's now controversial order to send recovering covid-19 patients back to nursing homes. even more outrage after a report obtained by the ap shows that cuomo's order to release recovering covid patients to nursing home was more than 43% higher than initially reported. and that special session that is being called for some time next week, that's not specifically for impeachment but to remove andrew cuomo of pandemic emergency powers, mike. mike: alex hogan live in new york city. alex, thanks a lot. with us to discuss this and more michigan democrat congresswoman and cochair of policy and communications committee, debbi dingell, welcome. congresswoman: thank you, happy valentine's day, mike. mike: thank you, i'm wondering your thoughts on you hear the latest reporting of nursing home scandal out of new york? congresswoman: i'm deeply concerned. we need to have the facts. this is one of the issues that i've been working on since i came to congress. i miss my husband on valentine's day and -- miss him every day. you have workers that are working in several homes at the same time, they are car years, it's hard to find people. so many don't have advocates. this is just another disturbing development and, you know, i obviously want the facts but it highlights how long-term care is spoken in the country. mike: to reopen the nation's schools, here is the cdc from today. >> i'm a big advocate that the guidance is followed, the teachers are prioritized, but from a scientific standpoint, we know that it's possible to reopen schools safely without all of the teachers being vaccinated. mike: your thoughts on the debate over reopening the nation's schools after hearing that from the cdc director? congresswoman: she also said -- look, the kids desperately want to be back in school with each other. if you heard the whole interview, they talked about the importance of people wearing masks. i have no idea how masks have become so political in this country. but we do know that wearing masks significantly decreases the amount of covid. so wearing masks is also an important part of that and we have to move as quickly as possible and put teachers in there and it is a combination of factors we need as we reopen the schools. mike: if sanitation workers, custodial workers and those who worked at the grocery stores are essential workers, aren't our nation's teachers? congresswoman: i think teachers are essential workers. i have said that and we need to try to get them -- i'm back home trying -- we have a vaccination supply problem. let's not lie to each other. i'm doing the case work myself because people are so upset and there's so many different reasons and i have 75-year-olds that haven't been able to get vaccine yet and teachers are saying, why can't i get mine, we have to increase the supply? the president has fought more -- bought more and more is coming into the system. i'm looking at how we are going to defeat the virus. there's been a supply problem, the supply is increasing and we have to use science to drive, opening the schools, getting the vaccine in arms, defense production act. mike: i'm hearing on republicans on covid relief, a deal to be had, trillion dollar package, bipartisan deal, would it be better to go bipartisan about a trillion dollars or stick to a partisan $1.9 trillion package? congresswoman: you know, i don't want to call this 1.9 partisan because there are republicans who need to do this. if you come to michigan, i will take you places but it's across the country, people need help and they need help in so many different ways. they've needed it for months and years from small businesses and restaurants to the issues that we were just talking about, about increasing the supply of vaccine, getting into arms, to people not being able thrown out of their homes because of rent or mortgage payments, student loans. we -- look, let's just -- the republican chair of the federal reserve need to invest right now. i'm forward and come together and get this done and we will keep working together and we are going to beat covid this year. that's got to be the number 1 issue this year. we cannot build back our economy until covid is under control. mike: congresswoman debbi dingell of the great state of michigan, congresswoman, thank you very much for your time. congresswoman: thank you. mike: much more of cdc reopening on fox news sunday, 2:00 o'clock eastern right here on fox news channel. the coast guard is searching for 6 people after the boat capsized off the florida coast wednesday. the search began after a jamaican national was rescued from the water two days after his boat capsized mirror a capss and their boat had departed from the bahamas. my greats camping out at the u.s.-mexico border could be allowed to cross over as early as this week as president biden rolls back immigration rules. why a former ice director says the president has created a perfect storm for a surge at the border. that coming up. with oscar mayer deli fresh it's not just a sandwich, far from it. it's a reason to come together. it's a taste of something good. a taste we all could use right now. so let's make the most of it. and make every sandwich count. with oscar mayer deli fresh mike: immigration officials came close to releasing three men convicted of sex crimes just days before 25,000 asylum seekers crossed the border providing an early test to president biden's immigration agenda. griff jenkins is tracking the story for us live in washington. good afternoon, griff. griff: good afternoon, mike, that's right, fox news confirms ice officials in texas nearly released three men convicted of sex offenses against children. they were ultimately not released after discussions between ice and state and local officials but the dangerous situation arose from an apparent misapplication of president biden's january 20th memorandum on immigration rescinding some of the previous administration's practices on deportatitations ad detainers would seek to keep convicted migrants in custody after their sentence and instructs agencies like ice to focus enforcement efforts on 3 main categories of national security, border security and public safety. incites, quote, aggravated felony as part of the threat. aggravated felony is defined in the immigration and nationality act as meaning murder, rape or sexual abuse of a minor. so why were these three men about to be released? well, ice is not providing a detailed explanation but says in a statement that the agency, quote, makes arrests and custody determinations on a case-by-case basis based on the totality of circumstances and does so in compliance with the federal law and agency policy. the situation has texas officials on high alert as ice has dropped detainer requests on 26 individuals in recent weeks. the chief of staff of the texas department of criminal justice told the associated press who first reported this story, quote, our concern is that you have individuals that have offenses in which we believe they would pose a public safety threat and so dropping the detainer in turn is threatening public safety and we express that to immigration officials. now, this comes as the biden administration this coming friday will roll back the trump administration's remain in mexico policy started in 2019. it's known officially as the migrant protection protocols and a required migrant seeking asylum in the u.s. to wait in mexico while the claims played out. there's 25,000 of them this now would undo that, mike. mike: fascinating stuff, griff jenkins live in washington, thanks a lot. for more insight let's turn to retired ice director and fox news contributor tom homan. >> thanks for having me. mike: 2021 border encounters, border patrol averaged about 3,000 border arrests per day in january 2021 encounters at the border up 114% from the same time a year ago. the highest amount since july 2019. tom, how do you assess those numbers? tom: we know -- i wrote an op-ed for fox news 7 months ago if joe biden became president, we would lose the border. 4,000 crossings a day because border patrol isn't adding the got aways, there's a way to count footprints in the sand and you times that by a month, that's 120,000 a month which is 1.4 million a year and that's what title 42 is still in place for single adults. once mexico stops title 42 the numbers will be astronomical and we knew that would happen because all the promises joe biden has made and continues to make. so this isn't by accident. this is by design. this is an open-order strategy, he has vowed to the benefit and we lose the border. mike: let's put on the screen from the ice acting director memo, generally these convictions would not include dug-base crimes, less serious offenses, dui, money laundering, property crimes, fraud, tax crimes, solicitation or charges without convictions, tom, how do you respond? tom: ice has lost 95% of criminal targets they arrest every year, 95% of them are off the table. now the biden administration said public safety is still important. well, obviously not because dui is a public safety issue, over 10,000 people die over duis, if joe biden ever sat and talk ed toan angel mom or angel dad,y lost their children. he says sex offenders are a priority but he hasn't done a thing about sanctuary cities, sanctuary like new york, boston, i can go on and on, seattle, they will not honor ice detainers whether they are sexual predators or not. it's disingenuous to say sex offenders are aty. we will not let the big cities change the way they conduct business with ice and how they conduct with business with ice, they don't accept detainers. is disingenuous. >> of course, they are not being screened for covid at the southern border because this is all political. he's opening the border, he's letting illegals pour in, they are not doing any covid tests, they are just coming into the communities. mike: what about the border issue as it relates to this pandemic we are still dealing with? tom: well, great quote, exactly right. thousands of family units have been released in the united states over the past few weeks. no covid test and to me the american community with no covid tests and on top of that, as soon as they get to the destination they qualify for a work visa. they'll be competing if the same jobs that unemployed americans are competing for. unemployment rates at extreme high. the biden administration should be concerned about covid, federal mandates on masks and we shut down schools at the same time thousands have come across the border with no covid tests, no masks being released in the u.s. to compete for the same u.s. jobs that many of our middle-class workers are going to be competing for. it's a switch on the american people. they don't care about employment of americans, they don't care about covid or they would take action on the border to protect americans. mike: tom homan, thank you for your time and analysis, sir. tom: thanks for having me. mike: new york governor andrew cuomo in hot water as new details emerge on alleged cover-up, we will get the panel's take after the break. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ mike: new york governor andrew cuomo now facing calls for resignation on the wake of report that is his administration misrepresented the number of nursing home covid deaths by as much as 50%. for more on this let's bring in the panel, federalist senior editor chris bedford and rebel communications laura fink, panel. >> thank you. mike: laura, let's start with you, your read on cuomo's scandal in the state of new york? >> this is a great example of democrats holding their own leadership to account. you have attorney general latisha james pursuing the investigation and you have democrats in the state legislature holding governor andrew cuomo's feet to the fire. this is accountability that we haven't seen on the national level in 4 years. cuomo will have to do with this. polling shows 2 to 1 edge over potential opponents even the ones closest to him but that may change. he's going to have to explain what happened and why. mike: chris, where does this cuomo nursing home scandal go? chris: i'm glad that the democrats seemed to have caught up to this. fox's janice dean, the federalist daily caller, fox news has been talking about the covid deaths and andrew cuomo's order for years while he was given emmys and called potentially the next president of the united states and people start today wonder if he should replace joe biden. the entire time he was lying. he talked to his brother for hard-hitting interviews and blamed donald trump for this happening. accountability, sure, but it's a little late especially after so many people like janice have been smeared for the last year for pointing out the facts. mike: topic number 2, the implosion of the lincoln project, laura, go? >> well, the lincoln project is not surprising that republicans now how to run a gift. this is a funding operation that's financed consultants something that we know steve bannon knows how to do raising money for a wall and pocketing the money and president trump saying he will finance stop the steal and instead redirecting all small dollar contributions into his own control not for the legal fund, so am i surprised no, am i surprised they paid women in toxic-male environment, no. do i think that this is in any way going to change the deep divisions within the republican party, that answer is also a no. reflective of those deep divisions that we saw this week not confronted once again. chris: these guys were on the way out before they started the lincoln project. consultants and because of past failures couldn't get a job and some couldn't get invite today funerals anymore in washington, d.c. they set up a grip and they did so with the help in the media, joe scarborough and they were useful idiots even though they were useful perverts in some cases and they were protected by people in the media. we should be asking questions about that. mike: okay. to the shake-up of the white house press, tj ducklo didn't make it for the first month. >> nobody likes to see a love affair but that was reserved in the instance. for ducklo to single out a female politico editor, call her out, use misogynistic comments, he needed to go, he was dually fired by the biden administration. they are walking the walk and also different than the last 4 years and different than what we saw yesterday when trump's attorneys could have held a cooking show in the well of the senate and 43 republican senators would still have vote today acquit. this is what we see, this is accountability. this is democrats walking the walk. mike: briefly before i go over to chris, what about her publication, his girlfriend's publication allowing her to go on doing some biden administration coverage while also covering progressives? chris: this shows how deeply exactly a lot of the media and the biden administration are in bed with each other. there's been accountability here not when it was discovered because white house knew about the story weeks ago but only when vanity fair showed it. his threats -- he's going to destroy people, his insults toward people shows how power mad some people can get as soon as they get to washington dc and they get really big heads and he got accountable to it. mike: if you treat people poorly you're out? chris: if you get enough bad publicity you're out? mike: final word from you. >> this is something that we haven't seen for a long time and it's refreshing to see accountability and refreshing to see remorse on ducklo's part. mike: many thanks. chris: thank you. mike: russian president vladimir putin going on the record at annual meeting with russian media editors in chief addressing the recent arrests of opposition leader alexei navalny and the protest that is spread across his country, trey at the conference. trey. trey: we saw state media outlets running interview with putin that was filmed last wednesday and he talks about he believes the west is trying to contain his country. we do know that the russian head of state was asked about the arrest of alexei navalny that jailed opposition leader who is still in jail after being taken into custody last month. putin claimed international bodies who have demanded release and navalny was on court on friday allege has he slandered a world war ii veteran and faces charges that's unrelated to a sentence earlier in the month that handed him nearly 3 years in prison for suspected fraud charges. now as for the protests that erupted in january over initial arrest, president putin had this to say. >> regarding the fact that people joined protests and not only in support of the person on the investigation alexei navalny, yes, you probably right, that's what happened. but you know what, this person under investigation is being used precisely at the moment when in countries all over the world including our own people are tired, irritated and discontented about the conditions in which they live. trey: small protests in russia continue in support of navalny as international pressure to release him. russia remains defiant as the foreign ministry indicated willingness to cut ties with the european union over the recent events. one other area of note. president putin held meetings with the heads of different russian media outlets. there are concerns right now that the internet could be cut or suspended amid ongoing protests and tension. mike: trey, thanks a lot. big development and legal fight between britney spears and her father over control of finances. more on this up next. ♪ ♪ ♪ research shows that people remember commercials with exciting stunts. so to help you remember that liberty mutual customizes your home insurance, here's something you shouldn't try at home. insurance is cool. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ alright, i brought in ensure max protein... ...to give you the protein 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argentina and repaired relations with the united kingdom after the war but his administration was battered by financial scandal and corruption. he was close to both u.s. president george w bush and president bill clinton, even speaking to a joint session of congress in 1991, carlos was 90 year's old. update to free britney, a los angeles judge denied over million control on thursday, portraying the pop star as the victim of a 13-year long conservatorship. christina coleman live with the latest. hi, christina. christina: good to see you, framing britney spears shows what let up to the celebrity's father having power over financial affairs and also renewed interest in the whole situation. on thursday, attorneys representing both britney and her father were back in court fighting over how her father should share power what newly appointed financial company. the judge ruled the power should remain equally split and that they need to come up with a budget and investment plan for the singer. legal experts consider this a partial win for britney and some of her fans also showed up to the courthouse. >> i think everyone that has been following the free britney movement just -- is happy that the general public can see the abuse, corrupt conservatorship that she's been under for 11 years. we are just so happy that the general public is aware now. christina: britney's father jamie was allowed control over her financial affairs back in 2008. that's around the time she appeared to have a public meltdown following intense public scrutiny and harsh and sometimes cruel media coverage. her dad's attorney has reportedly emphasized the need for the conservatorship to protect britney from people who would or have preyed on her, however, britney wants her father's conservatorship removed over her estate and so do many of her fans who question why this arrangement is even still in place especially since a conservator is appoint by a judge to protect and manage the financial affairs of a person's daily life due to physical or mental limitations or old age. >> this conservatorship for britney spears has been going on for over a decade and it's baffling to me because just as recent as recent as a couple of, britney spears did performance in las vegas, showing up on time, i find it hard to believe that she's not mentally fit to handle her own financial affairs. christina: at this point in the legal battle, both parties are expected back in court on march 17th, mike. mike: christina coleman live in la, christina, thanks a lot. it's race day and ready to rev their engines. >> it's looking a lot different and now we got the threat of a rain delay live from florida after this break. ♪ ♪ let's make lots of money ♪ ♪ you've got the brawn ♪ ♪ i've got the brains ♪ ♪ let's make lots of... ♪ ♪ uh uh uh ♪ ♪ oohhh ♪ ♪ there's a lot of opportunities ♪ with allstate drivers who switched saved over $700 saving is easy when you're in good hands. allstate. click or call to switch today. mike: daytona 500 nascar's biggest race of the year is an hour away. this year it will look a lot different due to the pandemic, matt finn at the international speedway with the details, matt. matt: all the fans in the stands are required to wear masks upon entry and when they are seated or take them off when they are seated and also this massive iconic stadium that can seat 100,000 people now 35,000. we can see there's a lot of gaps in between the groups. down in the infield camping is reduced as well, fans are not required to wear their masks there and there's a lot of rain in the forecast today. we talked to some fans about this year's daytona 500 with covid precautions and now possibly major rain delays. >> the party carries on. you bring your rain boots and your rain jacket. that's florida. >> you want to have fun put your mask on, abide by the rules. >> just beer. matt: nascar tells us its 30,000 fans make it in today will be the largest sporting event since the pandemic, mike. mike: vendors that deal with nascar fans, very proud, loyal fans are taking huge economic hit. talk about that aspect, matt? matt: yeah, absolutely. we talked to the vice president of driving operations for nascar. he tells he wants fans across the country to know they are implementing all the same covid precaution that is we see in society, mask use, air flow and disinfectant and drivers and crews go through substantial screenings with workers that by the time they enter building they are not positive and showing symptoms. driver who is looking to be the first 3 repeat champion in history today he tells us what's most disappointed that the locally-owned smaller racetracks are taking a big hit in their pocketbook. mike: they start with the super bowl of nascar right off the bat there in daytona. matt, i know that you have been in a share events of this year but how is it with race approaching? matt: there was a lot of rain in the forecast today. this venue is heavily reduced as far as capacity both inside of the stands and in the infield. i have to say the fans that are here are obviously very excited. right now the weather is rather perfect, cool breeze, the sun is out, so it looks like the 2:30 start time might happen, mike. mike: that's great stuff. matt, any predictions, a winner mind? matt: you know, i -- i think it would be exciting to see hamlin make the repeat. he coowns a team with nba great michael jordan who has apparently been in town this week. that does add to some of the excitement here today, mike. mike: all right, get any souvenirs while you're out there, any request from folks out in the bureau who may want nascar swag? matt: yeah, i will grab you some t shirts, fox nation is sponsoring some cars, check that out as well. you'll see the fox nation car out there on the track today. mike: matt finn, let's hope it's a great show on big fox. matt: yeah. mike: matt, thanks so much. you can catch the iconic event and more live on the local fox nation, 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