producing more than it ever has. liz: good -- >> mergers and acquisitions is showing this. liz: quincy, happy holidays. thank you so much. >> thank you so much. liz: very strong day for anyone long the market. let's get back with 40 seconds left, kenny polcari. we're at session highs. the dow is up 509 points. key takeaway quickly. >> yeah, yeah. right up here make a new all time closing high. s&p we're into a new century. we crossed over 4700. that is also very exciting for the markets. as you and i talked this feels great, you and i love it, i am participating it is great. don't feel that we're a little bit extended but go with it. to your point the fed made the call. they indicate they could go lower. so we'll see. [closing bell rings] liz: we have the big fireworks. the dow setting a all-time record. drop the confetti.

major averages close higher. ♪. larry: hello, folks, welcome to "kudlow," i'm larry kudlow. our headline story tonight, hunter biden defies congress by not appearing for his scheduled deposition in front. oversight committee. instead he make as public statement in front of the capitol and then immediately gets out of dodge. we have a late-breaking story, the dow is up 500 points at the close. we have the great charles payne to give us plenty of tips and advice. first up the hunter biden saga, let's turn to fox business correspondent grady trimble live at the white house. grady, today was a lot of fun. what was cooking. >> reporter: it was and the fun is not over yet, larry because the house could vote on a impeachment inquiry into president biden as early as the 5:00 hour this evening. that is expected to pass and house republicans say that if it

does it will give them more authority to enforce subpoenas as they investigate president biden and his son hunter's business dealings. they say the white house is stonewalling their investigation. here is what the white house says. >> they have gotten 100,000 pages of documents. they have interviewed witnesses for 40 hours and those documents and those witnesses those things they asked for actually refuted their false allegations over and over and over and over and over again. instead of doing the work of the american people, they're doing this, they're doing political stunt. >> reporter: hunter biden defied a congressional subpoena today. he was on capitol hill but i never went inside for that closed-door deposition he was requested at. instead he held a big press conference where he defended his dad, the president. >> my father was not financially involved in my business, not as

a practicing lawyer, not as a board member of burisma, not in my partnership with a chinese private businessman, not in my investments at home nor abroad. certainly not as an artist. >> reporter: in 2021 president biden said the justice department should prosecute people who defy congressional subpoenas. that was in relation to the january 6th investigation. white house press secretary karine jean-pierre was asked if that is still the president's position today and larry, she did not answer the question. larry? larry: oh, shucks. grady trimble, thank you very much. folks, we're going to talk to congressman byron donalds who is a member of the oversight committee about all this in just a moment. i just want to add in, i can't say i'm totally surprised at hunter biden's defying the gop house. this was all signaled ahead of time, orchestrated by his lawyers. make no mistake papa biden knew

about this ahead of time. if you declare hunter biden in contempt of congress might want to go the extra yard and declare joe biden for contempt of congress as well. the goal posts were moved again, don't miss that point, please. first papa biden said he had no knowledge of his son's business. then he said he was never involved in his son's business. now the party line is, he was never financially involved in hunter's business. not even nfl refs would throw so many penalty flags. i can't say for sure, but i can ask about family llcs took chinese money on one end and filtered through what it looks like an elaborate monetary laundering scheme that ends up paying joe biden's bills or loans on the other end without loan documentation other what went on with the cafe milano meals or oval office phone calls

or sitting with hunter shaking down a chinese investor who happens to be a chinese communist party apparatchik. the mysterious burisma charges that no one can find the ceo today. what hunter was selling that people from russia, china, ukraine, romania, kazakhstan and so forth were actually buying. the family business looks an awful lot like influence peddling. hunter was busted in wilmington, delaware for guns, busted in california taxes but we don't know much about evading the foreign registration act, what kind of lobbying he did or did not do. if you say it is all second quarter i suppose you might have a point but oversight chair jamie comer has a lot of suspicious-looking bank deposit records. ways and means chair jason smith has a lot of irs whistle-blowers. when you have this volume of evidence you suspect it will come to something. press secretary karine jean-pierre keeps telling our

own great reporter piecer doocy that joe biden would never pardon hunter biden which of course means he will absolutely pardon him if and when the time comes especially if he loses the november election for donald trump. i'm all for the house gop following through own investigations. follow the money wherever it may lead but somehow my political antenna tell me impeachment investigation is a better strategy than actual impeachment. mean while republicans should not forget about the election importance of a strong economic growth and prosperity message. drill, baby, drill, cut taxes, american mize regulations, curb federal spending, maintain a reliable king dollar. "bidenomics" has failed and let's not forget about the wide open border crisis around catastrophic dangers of joe biden's policy failures. republicans will retake the

white house next november with peace and prosperity optimism. that's my take. anyway, we welcome back joining us florida congressman byron donalds. he is a member of the house oversight committee. byron, fabulous to see you. you've been avoiding me, byron donalds. >> never avoiding you larry. always good to be with you. thanks for having me back. larry: how do you read it? first of all with respect to hunter, we'll have a contempt he message, some sort of a contempt vote for hunter biden's no-show today? >> look i think we'll vote go ahead for in favor of impeachment inquiry. what i saw from hunter biden and house democrats on the floor hoursing a, fear-mongering, blaming it on donald trump, ignoring the corruption, the pay for pay scheme, violations of farah, foreign registration act,

money laundering. they're ignoring all of that, trying to scare a handful of my colleagues looking at it politically voting against impeachment inquiry. i believe house republicans will do the job that is necessary. we have so much evidence here and all we need is to have these final interviews to go through the final roster of people who need to be deposed in order to finish our investigation. we're actually very close to that. house democrats realize that they're in a terrible place because joe biden and his family have been on the take for years and now joe biden, who by the way is doing a terrible job as president of the united states, in my view is compromised because of all the money he allowed his family to take using his name. larry: congressman, will the impeachment inquiry, the formal impeachment inquiry pass today? i think the vote is at five or 6:00 p.m. after our show. are you taking the over on that? >> it is going to pass, larry. that's my view. there has been a lot of

deliberations from members who really weren't all the way conclude in on what the whole scope of our investigation has been but as we've gone through and made the case to those members, gotten them to understand all the facts and what we're talking about, we believe the votes are there and it will pass in about an hour. larry: let me play some sound from hunter biden's little speech in front of the capitol today as he failed to show up for the deposition. you probably heard this but let's play this sound. >> james comer, jim jordan, jason smith and their colleagues have distorted the facts by cherry-picking lines from a bank statement, manipulating tickses texts i sent, editing testimony from my friends and former business partners, personal information that was stolen from me. larry: that is kind of nasty stuff, personal attacks on the committee chairs, who have been

diligent in their work. what do you make of that? you know, joe biden was, he saw this speech before the speech. so he was very much a part of this, byron donalds. what do you make of that? how nasty is this going to get? >> the first thing i take of it, that statement he read was written by his attorney, more than likely abby lowell. he wrote that statement for hunter biden. let's tell you what happened today. he shows up on the senate side of the capitol to do this press conference because he knew that house republicans were in the oversight hearing room ready to do this deposition. he had no intentions of complying with the congressional subpoena. and for everybody who is tracking this at home, you have two doj officials who are being blocked by the administration from complying with a congressional subpoena. you have the former white house counsel who is being blocked by the administration for complying with a congressional subpoena. at this point the house's only

position is to pass the impeachment inquiry because you're dealing with a lawless administration that is accustomed to the obstruction of justice by the department of justice to protect the biden family. his statement was a joke. for him to show up on capitol hill, give a presser, not even a presser, he read a statement, took no questions from the press, got back in the car and left, demonstrates how arrogant he is about the seriousness of what is going on. let me be very clear, larry, any american out there who defy as congressional -- defies a congressional subpoena, will be meld in contempt of congress and prosecuted by the department of justice. hunter biden is not above the law. i will say donald trump, jr. was deposed by house democrats five times. there was no impeachment inquiry vote. donald trump, jr. sat for those deposition. what the house democrats found at the time all they were doing was just fishing, there was nothing there. we have the goods on

hunter biden. he needs to come in and answer questions. larry: well the merrick garland justice department is still trying to throw steve bannon, former trump aide, i might add, friend of mine, steve bannon in jail for not showing up for a deposition so why shipment they be fair is fair, with the same application of justice? >> look, i will say with respect to steve bannon and peter navarro. they were white house officials. there is a clear argument they were protected by executive privilege under the trump administration. hunter biden is not a part of any administration. there is no executive privilege that protects him from coming to congress and sitting for a deposition because he has been subpoenaed to do so but larry, at the end of the day the reason why hunter is running, the reason why the white house is obfuscateing, reason white house democrats are pounding table because they don't have the facts because the biden family has been complicit in a foreign

corruption scheme. joe biden knew about it. joe biden took money from it. i believe joe biden is a co-conspirator in vie layeringses of the foreign registration act, an act, birthe way, that has thrown other officials in jail. paul manafort, most famous that comes to mind. larry: yeah. >> for less violations than what hunter biden is accused of. larry: last one quickly, congressman, i think there is another vote coming up today, that is a resolution calling for the resignation of harvard president claudia gay and a criticism of here and the other college presidents. do you think that will pass? >> i do believe it is going to pass because what claudine gay, what she did in the education committee, that was an absolute travesty. you have to acknowledge anti-semitism when you see it, and it should be held accountable on our college campuses. let me answer the question for her, her code of conduct harvard

gives all the room she needs to hold those students accountable. she doesn't want to do it, because she wants to be radical. harvard has a responsibility to get rid of her, if they don't do it will be to the detriment of harvard. larry: congressman byron donalds, thank you very much. good to see you again. >> you bet. larry: folks, coming up next, riddle me this, donald trump already tried and acquitted in the january 6th case, okay? so why weren't the supremes record that as double jeopardy, going through the whole thing again? we have trump attorney alina habba weighing in on that. the non-rich getting rich, the stock market roaring, 500 point day today on the dow. don't want to miss this. we have charles payne. he will roar with it and more when "kudlow" returns. ♪.

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keep former president trump in a courtroom or in jail either one. but, but, but, he is trying to avoid the federal district court and go straight to the supreme court with his case. i want to get your take on that first off? >> so what you have to argue there is that there is some sort of real sense of urgency. there is and urgency now we have to bypass the appellate division. we can't go through the normal course of process in the court system and let's go right up to the supreme court, larry. the only urgency i can see there is an election in november of 2024 and they can't beat him. so for jack smith to be putting his play-by-play on display in such a clear, unegivable manner, everyone can see what it is it is election interference at its finest. they can't beat him at ballot, so they have to lie, cheat or steal, newest is law fare, put name in jail, tie him up, at the criminal trials, he have has to be there every single today.

larry: that is the key case. they don't want him out campaigning. the more campaigning more better he will do, instead of keeping him held up in a courtroom. >> it is playing against them. he is getting a the love voters he would never get, he is a victim all of sudden, they made him a complete victim of election interference and law fare, it is completely un-american. larry: they asked you for a quick response on this. i was surprised at that. >> yeah. you can read that both ways, it cuts both ways. you can either interpret it they want a quick response, because it is a non-issue and they will not take it up and they want a to shut it down because there are some other cases they're trying to do this. i don't know what is going on in their minds but i do have faith in the supreme court. i think those justices are really take their office seriously. we've seen that time and time again with them, especially recently. larry: the constitution makes it pretty clear you cannot have double jeopardy. the president had been tried

once and was not convicted, okay? he was acquitted. now they want to go through the whole process again. i'm not sure people understand the double jeopardy argument which, most people think is very clear in the constitution. >> right. no two bites of the apple. that is what it is in plain english. no two bites of apple, go after somebody once and try tofy it. they are modifying it we can't get you on the facts, we'll call it now obstruction of justice. it is still the same set of facts. you could get him own and but you failed. they put it in a different court, modify it, put it in a judge in front of d.c. who we think has shown us incredible bipartisan decisions. she had people in j 6 cases still sitting there waiting for trial. she has the hardest line when it comes to decisions. this is all by design. i will sound like a broken record but it is all by design. they don't care about due process, they don't care about

the election, they don't care about the constitution. this is the problem they're having. they need to put the robes and law in front of politics. larry: what is interesting, the supremes are going to take up the january 6th issue with respect what is sometimes referred to as the enron decision. that is, you can't bust somebody unless it is very clear that they were fiddling with documents or otherwise stopping the pursuit of justice. this would favor mr. trump or could favor mr. trump but this just happens. so i'm not sure people are aware of this either. >> i think the supreme court, i doesn't want to speak about too many things that are pending the fact they're taking up these issues and recognizing they need to be addressed in a world of chaos in our judicial system currently. larry, that is the best way i can describe it. i believe someone had called on the supreme court to do this exact thing. we need the supreme court to step in and stop this. this has become complete mayhem and if they don't start looking at these decisions and as the

highest court in this country, as arbiter of law, the ultimate arbiter of constitution, people that are spoused to our bedrock, if they don't start doing it, thank goodness, they are we'll have some law and order hopefully soon. larry: people should understand the constitution even if jack smith and merrick garland don't. i will say that i'm not a lawyer. you're a lawyer. that is the way i look at it. free speech is not against the law. they're stopping free speech downtown in new york. they did their best. is that case, this finally crazy real estate valuation case which everyone has mocked now for months, anybody in the business has mocked for months, are you free of those shackles? >> i am not free of the gag order shackles. larry: no. >> my first amendment rights are definitely not, still being taken in some regard and especially sixth amendment right, right to a fair trial in litigation and being able to go there to make objections, when i was in the courtroom, i couldn't do it. today was our last day outside of making closing arguments.

letitia james's case concluded. we saw we had deutsche bank saying that the president and his company did nothing wrong. we had expert witnesses, leading accounting expert saying there was absolutely nothing wrong with what they did. that their complaint lacked merit. unfortunately we were dead upon arrival, larry. he found fraud before he walked in the door. the american people need to remember that we have spent three months of taxpayer dollars. for what i don't know. i don't know. it was a show letitia james could get outside to do press conferences every day. it was a very expensive show. larry: thank you very much. ace trump lawyer, thank you for coming back on stage. >> thank you. larry: we'll switch stage. alina goes off and great charles payne come on. i will vamp for 20 seconds while kelly and akila take care of that. huge day for the dow jones, closing at all sometime high.

closing 5000 points and 30 cents. here is charles. we want to sell some of his book, very important, author of the new book, "unbreakable investor". on shelves now. we have a coffee cup. >> i love bringing swag. larry: terrific. welcome to our show as always. we appreciate it. congratulations on the book. let's talk for a moment on the stock market. >> okay. larry: boom, boom. kudlow trust is doing very well, long s&p 500 as always. >> you are doing extraordinary well. you will be at an all-time high fairly soon. first of all the markets have defied all the odds, the experts i should say. what the main thing, larry, jay powell touched on it a little bit today, all these models, all these economic models, based on the past were out the window. they never dealt with trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars cascading into the economy. so a lot of things would

naturally happen have taken longer, right? it has taken longer for people to spend all the estimate my checks. by the way, a person lower on the economic scale spends the stimmie check they have to spend it goes to someone else. they spend it and goes to someone else. all of that money will end up with the top 1%, all of it, right? in the course of doing that things will happen. inflation will come down, recessions will happen, those normal things but the timeline has been stretched out. larry: the middle class owns stocks. >> they do. note as much as they should. larry: 125 million some odd people who own one way or other tax advantaged retirement accounts, 401(k)s. >> right. larry: stuff you talk about all the time. >> right. larry: i know the lion's share is owned by the super-rich. >> right, but, but, but, in the last 25, really 35, really since reagan demock a advertised the stock market, made it cheaper to

buy it, gaven tax advantages to save, middle income and some lower income have a piece of it. >> a piece. larry: in relation to their income it is not nothing. >> it is not nothing. it could be better. one of these things, you know what i hey i came in third place. we can come in first place. the stock market is the greatest money-making machine in the history of mankind other than selling something illegal, right? it is absolutely amazing. democratizing it amazing. give charles schwab credit. he made it cheap. you didn't have to pay $600 for a round-trip trade. larry: vanguard, schwab. >> those sort of folks. it is still intimidating. not enough people own stocks. people come to me every single day, charles, every single day i love your show but not not market. they wear 20 things from caterpillar to nike shoes to the watch, everything in the market. you're making someone else rich. we live in trickle up economy.

i don't care what anyone else says. trickle up. when we make money we can't wait to give it to wealthy people. we have trillions of dollars of credit card debt. 70% of our economy is spending. that's where we are. creates velocity of money. larry: do you give advice on this, in your new book do you say to non-rich people, middle income people, lower income people to buy stocks as part of your message? >> absolutely. larry: tell me about that, because i love that message. >> "unstoppable prosperity" which had a amazing three-year run. this is companion book to it. so amazing because we talk about the federal reserve, special piece on the federal reserve. i have a special chapter on warren buffett. i call him the original og when it comes to diamond hands. i start the book, larry, with an ode to my grandparents. my grandparents had 50 acres of farmland in alabama. they bought it in 1952.

now for a black family to buy farmland in alabama in 1952 took on additional risk. before that they sold every asset. they sold, they had a couple of horses. they sold them. they had farming equipment. they sold. they did everything for a piece of the american dream. what did they do? they elevated themselves enough so that the next generation had a better shot. that's what the book is about. the stock market is a way -- it is not get rich quick, if we do it right, we elevate ourselves so the next generation has a better shot at even getting more, having more prosperity, a better life and also being able to contribute to society more. >> do you recommend if you're buying the market or buying the indexes to hang own to them for the longer run? >> i give strategies going even beyond the indexes. if you don't want to do the work, buy the s&p, put it away hold on to it. larry: yeah. >> if you want to do a little bit extra work, people spend so much time on fantasy football. this is better. larry: right. thank you. or any of these silly, stupid

ass games, i'm sorry. that is exactly right. >> yeah. larry: or you know what? you don't have to have the best nike sneakers can i say that. >> that is how you get the seed money. larry: push some of that moo the market. >> that is how you get seed money. people tell me i don't have the money, what you look looking at in half. one week before the first iphone came out i told every single relative on the economic scale. don't buy the iphone, buy a 20-dollar cell phone, put it into iphone stock. two did it. only two did it. larry: betcha more would do it now. >> i know that was three hours ago. larry: you're a genius. >> thanks a lot. by the way unstoppable, unbreakableinvestor.com you get the book. it is free if you go to unblakable investor.com -- unbreakableinvestor.com. larry: jay powell, on the book,

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ask kentucky senator rand paul what he makes of this. this is worst than the selling of the president. let me give this right, we'll give $60 billion to ukraine they will win the war, but if we don't give them $60 billion they won't win the war, is there anybody who believes that stuff, senator paul? i find it incredible with a straight face that mr. schumer can say what he said? >> i would say that is not that simple, that it is simplistic to say that. the commander-in-chief for the armed services in ukraine, says a two weeks ago he thinks things have come to a stalemate, a standstill. we given them more than their entire gdp we're funding sub sidky h did is for their small businesses and paying their government salaries and government pensions f we give less or none at all what does that mean to europe? europe is only giving if we give? the thing is do they not have any resources of their own? and so there is a real question where do we get the money. we have to borrow the money.

i'm not for sending anymore over there and i'm tired of coming over -- he has got time to go to argentina. he was celebrating in argentina the new election and i don't care whether you're for or against the new person, he may be great but what is the president after war-torn country who has no elections in his country currently doing in argentina? so, you know, don't get me started on zelenskyy but i think there will be a healthy dose of skepticism now that his commander-in-chief says he believes it is at a stalemate. larry: by the way didn't mr. zelenskyy cancel the presidential elections in ukraine? >> yeah, he banished opposition parties. he has canceled the elections. actually certain religious figures have been prevented from convening their churches as well. this is not a democracy we're talking about. we're talking about an autocracy where he is ruling without any evidence of a next election. no scheduled elections, next year's presidential election has been canceled. while you think maybe one condition for aid ought to be

there's elections? so. larry: i'm not for cutting them off all together. i mean i think there have to be stipulations. i think there has to be an exit strategy but you know when schumer makes a statement like that, i think it undermines all the credibility and we come back to the other issue, senator rand, what about our border what about the southern border which gets worse by the day? we keep having reporters, great fox reporters on this show, 10, 12,000 coming across the border per day!, of illegal immigrants, how about that for a security issue? >> my oath of office is to america and to our borders. anybody else's borders, anybody else's war is secondary to our country and right now our country is not secure. i think it is crazy oh, we'll push the russia back to the international border when we can't even control our own border. to control our own border i think it is important that conservatives know if they put

up a fake reform, pass ukraine money, it is fake reform, conservatives need to know to reject that. only way any reform works you have to send them back to mexico. can't send them back to new york or inland, they have to go back to mexico. the remain in mexico policy trump negotiated. you have to realize the biden administration will do that again and the new president only did it without duress from donald trump. without donald trump forcing his hands they wouldn't have remain in mexico. without remain in mexico people come on coming. to get a traffic ticket to go to court they will never show up for in the tens of thousands. larry: the national funding bill we'll not get it before christmas, is that fair? >> i don't think anything is coming before christmas. i think it is important for conservatives they have all the leverage. to the speaker of the house, johnson he separated out israel aid and he paid for it.

what a wonderful precedent, actually paying for something additional you will be spending. he needs to hold to his guns, he shouldn't cave, shouldn't put that as part of a ukraine bill not to pay for it. that is what the big government republicans leadership in the senate want to do, combine it all, no pay for. i'm all for the border security part. i'm for paying for stuff. i'm not just for printing up money and borrowing money from china. we'll see what happens. all the strength and power lies with the conservatives, the longer we wait the greater our leverage grows. this is opposite of a government shut down. during the government shut down the forces wanting to spend money able to do whatever they want there is no power of the purse for fear the government is closing. the government is note closing this is money they have want in addition to what they're spending. all the power of the purse should go with conservatives if we stand firm. larry: thank you, senator paul,

sensible stuff, thank you very much. happy holidays. folks we'll switch gears, maybe a little bit more about biden's foreign policy. steve moore, committee to unleash prosperity hotline and host of "moore money," wabc radio. we have moan can cauley, former assistant treasury secretary, host of the monica crowley podcast, steve forbe's, "forbes" editor in chief, author of inflation, why it is bad and how to fix it. monica, actually our president at the moment has better relations with ukraine than israel. that troubles me a lot, a lot, a lot. i want to get your take on that. i want to get steve forbes on that. he keeps saying i will shut up in a second, he keeps saying they have to change their government. it is a coalition government. it has labour, likud, everybody in it. it is a war cabinet. biden keeps saying change the government. he doesn't understand what a coalition government looks in

wartime, why is he taking potshots at israel this is a real sea change for joe biden who throughout his career has been behind israel but the problem at home, the act at this investment, energy in his own party is on the radical left. it is pro-palestinian, pro-hamas, terrorist sympathizers in the streets in all of our cities. he is feeling the political pull from them to step up to start criticizing israel. i will say this too, he have and his boss, barack obama, in the obama administration were very anti-bibi netanyahu. you're seeing real personal vitriol coming out of joe biden toward benjamin netanyahu who is trying to save his country from a existential threat. this unforgivable for a president of the united states. larry: steve forbes, i hate to rate them but to me you risk world war in the middle east. i mean, maybe -- i don't think there is a winner in the

ukraine-russian battle. i think it is a stalemate. i think generals are saying it is a stalemate. honests analysts are saying it is a stalemate, but, but, but, i think with respect to israel and iran in the middle east you have a serious problem and biden is just stepping right into this thing without understanding it. >> well, what he is doing is encouraging all the forces of evil. russians now think they will win in ukraine because biden doesn't know how to make the case for it but incluesably in the middle east israel is as monica says is fighting for its very existence and he is actually looking like he is reading hamas talking points, saying oh you're indiscrimminantly kifling killing residents, israeli soldiers weren't out of that i way to minimize civilian casualties. in many ways hamas is worse than the nazis. they have to be annihilated.

netanyahu has to see it through. after the war he will resign after golda meir, during the war, you have to stick together to see the thing through. larry: why does biden have to broadcast that point? yes the coalition, when the war is over, the coalition will come to an end. there will be new elections and new government. why is it necessary for the american commander-in-chief to keep making that point on a daily basis? >> because they have been anti-israel since the obama administration. they were pro-iran. they're still pro-iran. they think israel is a nuisance. they should create a palestinian state. they tried that in gaza. we saw where that led. if you ever want a state it has to be demilitarized. no, you can't do that they don't understand the middle east. they're back to where they were in the 1960s. they don't understand iran is revolutionary government. they don't understand that hamas wants to annihilate israel and kill all the jewish people in the world.

so they're living in la-la land, a dangerous la-la land. the fact of the matter if he was a real leader he would go before the american people making case why we have to stand by israel. larry: which he did the first couple days. >> that is not enough. you have to do it constantly. you have to have your officials doing it constantly. larry: those guys are on the wrong side. anyway, steve moore, a little bit after disdebt but what is a disconnect among friends. part of the problem here in the middle east we stopped drill, baby, drill. >> right. larry: your point today in the hotline or yesterday in the hotline nobody wants a ford pickup truck electric vehicle is that true. >> they have cut their production. they have only been around a year or two and already cut their production in half. they didn't even listen to the customers. they didn't listen to the car buyers. how many times they have to say -- i'm not against electric vehicles but when you have got 90% of the people saying no, we don't really want them.

by the way shame on ford and general motors and the american car companies for basically buying into this electric vehicle green agenda. they will bankrupt themselves. they will come to the american taxpayers give us a bailout. larry: another bailout. i always liked ford because ford didn't take the bailout. exactly, they were very good. gm are all accustomed to it. they will take out their bailout papers. >> monica, you own a electric vehicle truck? >> i do not. larry: see you in a ford f-150. >> no it would totally be gas. i'm a combustion engine girl by the way. time for me to get a new car the next year or so i'm not buying an ev. as a woman buying alone i don't want to be searching for the infrastructure which the country still does not have for electric vehicles. on top of it it is still electricity which is derived from what? yes, fossil fuels, coal. larry: whoa. >> it makes no sense except as a

political agenda point and all of these car companies, et cetera -- larry: we need more time. we've run out of time. 500 points on the dow. hunter biden just didn't want to show up today, you know what i mean? woody allen used to say0%, 90% of life is showing up. hunter just didn't want to show up. i'm sorry kids. you're very nice to come on. >> what does he have to hide? what does he have to hide? larry: nothing. it is an open book. coming up there is brand new evidence harvard covered uptheir miss begotten president's plagiarism. washington free beak cone, matthew will talk another brutal story. plagiarism at harvard, what ape surprise s "we're going down?" ... and our world. it's a story... i thought i knew. turns out it's far more incredible...

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