some stagflation. if that is the case, metals, commodities are definitely the place you want to be. liz: david, good to see you, thank you very much it is a fascinating play considering at the moment the miners, you're right, they're trading at lower valuations which is kind of hard to find in some cases. thank you, good to see you. folks, look at this, forget the dow down 51 points, no record or anything exciting there. the nasdaq and the s&p are hitting fresh new records for the nasdaq. it is the 25th record of this year. [closing bell rings] the 35th for the s&p 500. tomorrow blackrock cio global fixed income guru rick reider joins us live along with "wall street journal's" nick timiraos. ♪. larry: hello, folks, welcome to "kudlow," i'm larry kudlow. president biden making it clear he will not drop out of the race. there will be no visit from the lord almighty i'll say. charlie hurt, tammy bruce on set

to talk about that and few other things just a moment. want to talk about the almighty i'm happy with that first up our own hilary vaughn on capitol hill with more. hilary, have you seen the almighty, tell us? >> reporter: larry, not yet here on capitol hill but i don't think he would show up here. larry: right. >> reporter: while the president is waiting for a sign or intervention from god to tell him to drop out of this race lawmakers on capitol hill are calling for him to do that. some in public, some in private but at the white house today the press secretary faced a lot of questions about the president's mental health and whether or not lawmakers should be concerned and americans should be concerned about his cognitive ability but the press secretary said today, a cog knit test is not on the table -- cognitive test. while the president wants to calm concerns is not willing to take a cognitive test. they also didn't have a explanation as to why a

parkinson's expert visited the white house eight times over eight months. all the press secretary would say the president does not have parkinson but would not explain what that expert was doing at the white house and whether or not they are h they were treating or seeing the president himself. but the president has gone on the attack today, firing off a letter to all congressional democrats warning them that an attack on him as the nominee is an attack on democracy, writing this, the voters of the democratic party have voted they have chosen me to be the nominee of the party. do we now just say this process didn't matter, that the voters don't have a say? i decline to do that. the question how to move forward has been well aired over a week now but it is time for it to end. even though biden wants to shut up his democratic doubters, people are still airing concerns in public and private. senator jon tester saying in a statement this afternoon president biden has to got to prove to the american people including me he is up to the job another four years.

a handful of democrats in the house reportedly said in a private phone call over the weaken they think biden needs to step aside as nominee. others on the fence say biden needs to pass a test. >> we need to see him in an extended interview or an extended press conference. we want more information to make the decision. we're rooting for joe biden and the closer the test is to what he will face on september 10th the more confident we can be. >> reporter: but biden is confident he has the nomination and that his party can't take it away from him. the president declaring multiple times today he is the nominee and there are allies rallying behind him from senators bernie sanders, who says this is not a putty contest and that they should focus on issues, not the man. also for lawmakers looking for the president to prove himself he will get a chance later in the week at a big press conference. the white house is calling that press conference, larry, a

quote, big boy press conference. larry. larry: big boy press conference but no god almighty, that's it. hilary vaughn, thank you very much. we appreciate it. folks forget the biden circus, the real headline is pro-growth america first trump platform a week ahead of the milwaukee convention. that is what i think trump's platform issues that will decide the election and that is the subject of the riff. ♪. at the moment major media frenzy is whether president biden will drop out of the race. for what it's worth i don't think he will. mr. biden's own words the lord almighty will not come down. let me add, you can bet on that one but all this biden speculation should not be permitted to obscure the fact that the republican national committee a week ahead of the milwaukee convention has just adopted and released former

president trump's 2024 republican party platform. it was out about 90 minutes ago. this is today's real headline story, if you ask me. the platform carries the same kind of message that mr. trump has been successfully talking about for the last several years. it is pro-growth, pro-opportunity. it aims to close the southern border and restore an america first standing in the world, peace through strength. the document is short, pithy and right to the point. some of the highlights include worker tax cuts and by the way, no tax on tips. that's in there. stopping biden-flation. restoring energy dominance. ending unfair trade deals. keeping the u.s. dollar as the world's reserve currency especially important for strong growth and low inflation. wall street, will you finally listen? restore america's status as the dominant world energy producer.

can sell the electric vehicle mandate and cut all costly and burdensome regulations. ceiling the border -- sealing the border, stopping the illegal migrant invasion, and deporting illegals, keeping men out of women's sports, radical racial, sexual woke policies out of schools. the platform also states, and i'm going to quote, unite our country by bringing it to new and record levels of success, end quote. these are the message points that have proved so popular on the campaign trail. these are exactly the themes that mr. trump has used to organize a working class coalition of black americans, hispanics, asians, young people and women. these are policies to successfully build on mr. trump's first term as president, policies that art laffer will be here in just a moment has called one of the best policies of any first term president.

tax cuts, deregulation, energy independence, superb supreme court picks, good trade deals, strong national security, including the abraham accords. so today amid 20% biden-flation, an affordability crisis with falling real wages and high mortgage and credit card borrowing costs the nationwide crime and public safety ravages of biden's illegal immigration catastrophe and raging fires overseas, most folks know that they were better off four or five years ago and that is mr. trump's message. success is the best uniter and that is tonight's riff. all right, having said all that, joining me on set, charlie hurt "washington times" opinion editor, fox news contributed tore. tammy bruce, also a fox news contributor. welcome to both of you. i want to get to the flotsam and

jetsam out of the way. no way biden will get knocked out. by the way won the rigged primaries fair and square. he kept people off the ballot. he got that. they can't take it away from him. god will certainly not come down to talk to joe biden. >> certainly they were rigged. none of the people crying about this now were complaining about the fact they were rigged back then. larry: right, good point. >> there is nothing here, we've known for years that joe biden is cognitively challenged and listening to "the new york times" and "washington post" editorialize how he needs to step out of this race, i call it a media insurrection. they are doing whatever they can. honestly it really does show this profound contempt they have for actual voters. larry: yes, profound contempt. i agree with that. tammy, god is not going to come down. biden is in denial. i want to ask you though, are you shocked he won't take a

neurological cognitive test? donald trump has taken a couple. happy to take another one. >> it is fascinating. donald trump -- larry: donald trump won the golf tournaments. mr. biden has a terrible swing. >> trump is supposed to be ornery brad guy, evil, there he is sitting in the courtroom all those weeks listening to that crap. he goes to the debate wherever they said for him to go with the bad guys who are the moderators, no audience, he will go ever apparently we point him because he loves the country. he knows what he stands for. he knows what he is going to do. he took the cognitive test. he did everything people wanted him to do. larry: yes. >> because he is in this for something other than himself and there is literally as we know nothing to hide and i think that's important. what i think is happening here, this is what is fascinating, the bidens clearly knew what was happening when he became, when he ran and became the nominee.

there was clearly an agreement. they would have their backs. they would protect the bidens. they just needed to get rid of trump. he would be the uniter and return to normal guy and everybody knew him. he was grandpa. we would be safe. the family would be protected. all of sudden when their little scheme to kneecap donald trump failed, now they have, it is like, how is this democracy, you then just decide oh that guy who was elected president, 81 million votes in the most secure election in history. larry: right. >> suddenly will be shuffled out the side door. larry: hoisted on his own pitard. pro-democracy. can't dump him. >> no wonder the bidens have everybody right to be angry. i agree with his letter. people voted for me. i'm elected. it is like the frank ken stein stein -- frankenstein monster saying hello and he is not in control of the doctor anymore.

larry: you know who edith wilson was, wife the president wilson ran the country for two years. they will not let him leave. last point, tammy's logic, i mean they went through a process. >> yes. larry: he won 81 million votes. gee whiz, can't dump him now. >> this is problem entirely of their own making. thank god trump has done a great job. he sat back, let them go through all of this. >> beautifully, beautifully. >> this is entire -- larry: never interrupt your enemy when he is hanging himself. >> i don't know what it is they're doing. by the way i'm not an expert on the lord almighty's schedule. larry: really? >> but when you're 82, 81 years old, don't tempt the lord almighty to make, rearrange his schedule to come down. larry: you don't want to see him any earlier than necessary. >> no you don't. larry: good point, charlie. that is really, really good point. can i move on to other more

police and things? one thing, vice president stakes, we're coming into the convention period. mr. trump said it could be a little bit before the convention or during the convention. i'm hearing a lot of chatter about glenn youngkin of virginia, former ceo, banker, virginia is in play, executive experience, not to demean burgum or vance or rubio for that matter. do you put any credence in the youngkin, i will just call it, chatter, new chatter? >> i think we all loved it when we saw youngkin benefit from an accidental situation with northam's comment about parents don't have a right to be involved in their children's education. that was an accident but youngkin was ready. he was able to take advantage. he was behind at that point. then he won that race. we know what the schooling remains an issue and that's important as well. but i think that between you

know, you've got even tom cotton, rubio, and jd vance it must be someone who understands the nature of the monster of washington, d.c., who has been in it, who knows the players, and yes, who can be loyal to trump for obvious reasons which means you're loyal to the country and to american families. glenn youngkin, obviously the talent bench is very deep and we're going to see a lot of him but i think there are so many others who are in washington, who i think the president knows better, knows he can trust them and i think that's where he is going to go because this is not just going to be somebody who sits nicely in the chair. this is going to be a work-based job like cheney. someone who can also carry on the flag without any hesitation. maybe governor youngkin who i think is great -- larry: therefore all pretty good. it is pretty good. it is a pretty deep bench. charlie, how about the platform? we'll talk in more detail later

in the show. but it is straightforward, it is a bun much of 20 bullets, easy to read, a introduction. it conforms to mr. trump's message. in some sense it is classic trump. doesn't waste your time. i don't want 100 page documents nobody will believe but it has all the pithy stuff he has been talking about the better part of the last several years, successfully tracking about. >> if this election were decided based on that document, those issues, donald trump would win the biggest landslide in history. these are the issues people care about. donald trump is on the right side of everyone of these single issues. the frustrating part, the how bad a week for joe biden, i think it will continue throughout this week, it is almost better actually than actually talking about the issues because if you talk about the issues, whether it's the border, whether it's the economy, whether it is the wars sparked because of joe biden's negligence and because of his

war on american energy independence, and this laughable, you know, disregard for countries like russia and iran, you know, when you look at all these things, trump would be destroying him on these issues. larry: yeah. >> it is almost, it is almost like joe biden is better off talking about his age than talking about some of these issues. larry: i think the issues count. i think the interesting thing, we got to get out of here, but the fact here, people have, i watched the media for, call it three years but certainly the last two years, mr. trump has been clearly on the campaign, i watched the media ignore trump's messages that have put together a working class coalition, all right? and that includes border security, low taxes deregulation and energy dominance and so forth, so on and stopping some of this crazy woke stuff in the kids schools. i watched them ignore that at their own peril because polling shows that people agree with him

as you just suggested. i'm just saying here they go again. everyone will talk about this biden second quarter sus which will come to naught for reasons you both suggested but here is trump's message will come to something and it is a good pray laud to the milwaukee convention coming up which we'll all go out there and be there. this is the first i remember, short, coherent, a bunch of bullets a week ahead of time. no wrangling. this is it. i'm all for it. >> it is like the constitution and bill of rights. it is short. every word matters. people understand it. they can relate to it. it it perfect. thank goodness the convention will move it further along as people watch as joe biden tries to figure things out, adam smith's wealth of nations here it is. that is it. adam smith's wealth of nations. >> in the footnotes. larry: you have to look for it carefully. tammy bruce, charlie hurt, you're both fabulous, thanks

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opposed to it, why is that? >> i mean because the left has taken over their party and the left has all kinds of crazy positions. this is just common sense but i guess when you don't have a border, when you let in 10 million migrants just come into your country we shouldn't be surprised they don't want to have a citizenship requirement, proof of citizenship requirement when it is time to vote. that is today's wealth. i love what governor sarah hawk bee sanders a year ago. the divide in america today is normal versus crazy. larry: right. >> that is so true. this is a crazy policy the left supports, that unfortunately controls the democrat party. we're for common sense, we're for regular things, for normal things. oh, you have to be citizen to vote particularly in a federal election. makes no sense why they take the other position but they do. larry, let's move on from the ridiculous to the sublime. president biden in his statements refuses to take some

kind of neurological cognitive test. he says he takes one every day, which isn't true. donald trump has taken couple of these tests. he is willing to take another one. why won't biden take one, you would think with this flap he would want to put that to rest and take one? >> you would think he would, so he can put out the results from it. i don't think it is needed for the country. i don't think any cognitive test needed for us to understand what it is going on. we all saw it front and center week ago thursday. the country has common sense. what was it, off 60 million people, whatever watched, they saw it. democrats admitting what everyone saw even though they were talking the day before about deep fake, things that make no sense. the country figured that out. you would think the president would take one to give the results just like president trump did. larry: all right. i still think as i said in my opening riff, you may not have heard it, but the fact is the

biggest story out today, it is not the biden follow is. he is not going any place. i may be wrong but i don't think so i think the big story here, about 90 minutes ago, jim jordan, the republican national committee put out donald trump's platform before the convention. they put it out a week ahead of time which it usual. it is about tax cuts energy dominance, about america first overseas. to me this is the headline. this is why trump has a lead in the polls around why he is putting together a working class coalition. >> it is common sense policies that worked a few years ago when you were in the white house helping president trump, we had growth among all dem gravelings with the population, we had energy growth and commander-in-chief projected strength to our adversaries and

allies around the world which don't have with joe biden this campaign is pretty basic n 3 1/2 years we went from secure border to know border. we went from safe streets to record crime. went from two dollar gas to four dollar gas. record prices to high inflation. i think americans want to go back to policies with president trump when he was truly making america great again. most importantly we had commander-in-chief who projected strength on the world stage versus joe biden. final thing i would throw in, we had a government, these agencies worked for we the people, instead of weaponized against the taxpayers they're supposed to serve. that is the campaign. by the way we saw how great last thursday president trump did in the debate. that is what the american people see. why president trump is up in every single swing state poll. larry: you know besides that, all that stuff, think about regulation, the supreme court just passed a very important decision which says to the regulatory agencies, stop thinking you're god.

stop thinking you run the country. >> yeah. larry: no, congress runs the country, the executive runs the country. you're not a fourth branch of government. which is what donald trump has been saying for years. trump by the way, it is all in hire. he wants to cut taxes, all right, wants to rebuild cities. even said this brought tears to my eyes, he said the u.s. dollar must be kept as the world's reserve currency. he wants that. that is part of america first. >> exactly. larry: you believe in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. i know you memorized adam smith's wealth of nations. this is powerful stuff. success is the best way to unify the country. >> freedom and success, open markets, free markets all those things we had under president trump. the great point you made. think about the last 10 days, we had president trump's amazing debate performance a week ago thursday and we had the three big decisions. the one you referenced chevron decision, the fisher decision,

both say congress writes the laws, not some prosecutor who thinks he can do anything and not some regulatory agency in the chevron case. we had the decision on presidential immunity. that all happened in the last 10 days. amazing 10 days for the country and president trump. larry: that is the stuff that is going to drive this election, not the biden policies. couldn't agree more, chairman jim jordan, as always sir, thank you for visiting with us. >> you bet. larry: i see you in milwaukee. >> i look forward to it. take care. larry: up next, folks, art laffer will tell us why president trump had one of the best policies of any first term president in history. remember, folks, "kudlow" available as a podcast. episodes every weekday right after the show. spotify, apple and foxbusinesspodcast.com. i'm kudlow. we'll be right back. ♪. in any business, you ride the line between numbers and people.

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one of the best policies of any first-term president in history. he joins us now to talk about it. former reagan economist, medal of freedom recipient, my dear friend, art laffer. arthur before we get to that, just one word. i want you to know for what it is worth, because i know you don't follow this stuff as close as some, in the republican platform out about hour 1/2 ago, that's all, number 13, keep the u.s. dollar as the world's reserve currency, number 13. so you and i, some others steve forbes we had an impact on that. wall street, are you listening, because none of them like traumatic larly, but he keeps the dollar as world reserve currency. don't you think that is a very important point and that if he makes it he does intend to make that promise? >> i do, larry. if i take us back a few years, it was the larry kudlow phrase,

king dollar, king dollar. that was it. larry: thank you. >> that's right, a strong dollar means lower inflation. a strong dollar means a stronger economy, lower interest rates. a strong dollar means lower priced gold. it means less price on bitcoin. means the dollar is doing what it should be doing. transactions medium will be engaged, what its value in the future can make contacts. that is important with a strong dollar that is it what we lost in 1972, did smithsonian accord, went to from floating rates andt was terrible. we need to get back to king dollar. larry: you're very kind to remember king dollar but as you know mr. trump from time to time with whole issue of gold restoring that. i will not put words in his mouth because that is not his view. he looked at it, thought about it, entertained it and this is what you get. the other point people say trump wants a weak dollar. no, no. what trump wants, what trump wants is for japan and china to

have stronger stable currencies. in other words, those currencies have been devalued. that's unfair trading practices. they're the ones that need to be blamed and they're the ones that need to solve it, not killing the u.s. dollar? >> you know, it is a whole problem that we did in 1972 of going off fixed exchange rates, going off bretton woods. bob mandel wrote about this all the time, so did i going back there, i don't know if you remember my "wall street journal" on bitter fruits of devaluation and all of that. we need to get back to a stable currency, if it requires gold, god bless it, whatever its. we need a strong dollar, a dollar that is world currency. that is for sure. larry: there could be commodity price rule. there are lot of ways to do it. >> it could very well be. larry: you and i, talked about it on the radio, his first term was dynamic, spectacular stuff. why don't you talk about that. >> yes it was. larry: because a lot of this stuff is in the platform, art,

that is why it is so important what you're saying. >> yeah. let me just say i'm talking as an economist. i'm not talking about any of these social issues or any of those other things, larry, just on economics, that is what i like to stay on. the tax cuts and jobs act was the best first term proagenda, he didn't make the mistake of phasing it in. "operation warp speed" was phenomenal. "operation warp speed" we got a vaccine in 11 months when people thought it would take six, 8 years. all the research on mrna, i told you in the, my daughter had stage four. she is still alive. was supposed to be dead four years ago. the executive order, best one of all. if you look at the supreme court picks. i'm not talking about the judicial picks on all these other issues, on economics, this supreme court is world class and

the world members are great putting the regulatory branch of government in its place and it has got to be done by legislative, executive, period. that's the only place it can occur. so when you look at all of these policies together, i mean the right to try. what's not wonderful about the right to try? all of this stuff is the best single first term president with regard to economics in the history of the united states. that is my view of the world and you can see why i'm supply-side econmics all the way. it is only on economic buildings i'm talking but boy is it good. we need that back again. larry: he was, look, he was tough on china trade as he should be because they were unfair trading practices, but as you point out in this paper, i remind everybody, we lowered barriers, trade barriers with south korea, with japan, with australia. >> yep. larry: with brazil, the usmca for all of the north american story. i mean yeah --

>> exactly. larry: he uses tariffs to negotiate, to be tough with china. they deserved it. >> that's right. larry: i think they will probably deserve more, but the reality is he had barrier lowering agreements which he believes in reciprocity. >> yeah. larry: you have people in the newspapers and wall street saying oh my god, trump will raise tariffs on everything, inflation rate will go up. it is not true. it is just not true. >> it is just not true. what you have to understand the link, the very tight link between strength, economic strength and military situations. peace through strength is really important. >> yeah. >> bob mon dell, said it was smoot-hawley tariff, depression called world war ii in his nobel lawyer rat speech. donald trump with growth and good economic policies that is what is called strength and that led to peace. we didn't have any wars under donald trump. we didn't have them under reagan either by the way. there would have been no ukraine had trump had a second term. there would have been no gaza,

there would have been no houthis. these things happening are because of bad economics which leads to weakness which leads to war. i'm sorry that is the way it really is. peace through strength is really important. if you like peace you need economic strength and supply-side econmics. larry: weak at home, weak abroad. strong at home, strong abroad. that's it. >> exactly. larry: art laffer, appreciate it very much. let's segue right into our next guest. i want to keep talking about this platform. we have got steve miller, former senior trump policy advisor, trump campaign surrogate, my good friend, former colleague. you know. >> steve, i have just think it was really cool today, a week before the convention, they put out the platform. it is easy to read. it is concise. it is consistent with the things mr. trump has been saying from recent years. it is actually consistent doing everything he did in the first term as presidency which you heard art laffer say was so successful. what can you tell us about this platform? i'm sure you read it. i'm sure you may have had a hand

in it? >> let's talk politics and let's talk about policy. politics, larry, if you have to say something in 100 pages you're doing it wrong. the historical approach to party platforms has been to go on forever and ever and ever and ever about every topic under the sun which basically means you're saying nothing. this trump-led, trump-distilled platform that reduces the republican party's agenda to 20 essential promises is political genius. every american can read it. every american can share it. every american can discuss it. this is what we're going to do on foreign policy, military policy, trade policy, dollar policy, economic policy, migration policy. it is all right there, 20 promises. let's talk about policy, larry. you've been talking about on your show. enjoyed listening as i sat here in the chair. this is a vision for ad call

prosperity, job creation, economic opportunity, right? lower taxes for everyone. no taxes on tips. slash government regulations, explode american energy. make energy in america as affordable as possible. tame the inflation dragon that is ravaging life savings as you said. keep the dollar as the world's standard. keeping america as the world's superpower. those two things are inextricably linked. fighting foreign trade cheaters especially china so we can have a manufacturing boom at home. and restoring the rule of law in our cities and communities, which larry, as you know without security there is no prosperity. this is a vision to get americans back to work in full time, high-paying jobs that they can afford to pay for all of the things their families need. larry: steve miller, i got to tell you, when i saw number 13, 13, i was talking to art laffer,

about the strong dollar, world reserve currency, i was weeping with tears of joy, weeping with tears of joy, i was so happy i was besides myself. i'm almost as happy to hear you're in the chair listening to our show. that is a wonderful thing also. the whole thing is a day of blessings. the other point i make, these are things that mr. trump has been talking about, first of all, you could argue throughout his first term which was so successful as art laffer just attested to but he has been talking about these things, this is the key message points for the last several years on the campaign trail. the liberal media keeps ignoring it, but this is one reason he is put together this working class coalition, it seems to me. i will ask you for your take this is one reason. i know polls aren't votes but polls are snapshots. these are the best polling numbers mr. trump has ever had. this is his message. people keep ignoring his message.

i didn't want the biden policies tonight to obscure the importance of this message from the platform. that is the real headline today, what mr. trump has said once again in this platform, steve miller. >> yes. look, if you want to know, everyone always talks about it, if you want to know what a populist agenda is, it is these 20 promises. you have the biden campaign, you have the leftist media out there lying every day, claiming that they know that they know what trump is for. this is the 20 promises. it is right here. if you want to see what president trump is going to do, here is the 20 promises. seal the border, stop the invasion, lower taxes, no taxes on tips, rebuild the military, build a missile defense system for the united states of america. larry: yes. >> keep the dollar as world reserve currency, it is all right there. this is an agenda democrats can get behind, independents can get behind, centrists can get behind, moderates can get

behind, conservatives can get behind, nationalists can get behind because this is 80% governing agenda larry, this is what you talk about on your show week in, week out. a recipe for opportunity, prosperity and rising wages. larry: i love this a great iron dome missile defense shield over our entire country. last 30 seconds, steve miller, this is a very powerful, very powerful, reaganesque promise but very powerful in these times of uncertainty after biden's foreign policy mistakes. >> yes. well president trump has spoken about we now have the technology, we didn't have it candidly 30 or 40 years ago, we now have the technology to build a truly state of the art missile defense system. larry: yep. >> so we can achieve an unprecedented level of security for the united states in these troubling and dangerous times. president trump is leading the way on laying out how we can have missile against right here

in the united states. larry: great stuff, great stuff, steve miller, thank you my friend, appreciate i very much. see you in milwaukee if nothing else. coming up here on "kudlow," is joe biden a national security risk? that is an important question. we'll ask senator joni ernst when "kudlow" returns. did i read this? did i get eggs? ...

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>> george? i'm the guy that put nato together, the future. no one thought i could expand it i'm the guy that shut putin down larry: really, really? nato together and shut putin down. joining us now is senator joni ernst, the chair of the senate gop policy committee and as always, ma'am, welcome to the show. i was not aware that mr. biden either pulled nato together but more importantly, shut putin down? as i recall, senator, biden said don't, but putin did in ukraine but you tell me, you're on the committee. >> oh, my gosh, larry. i literally cannot stop laughing about mr. biden's comments about that. isn't it president biden that said a minor incursion by the

russians into ukraine be totally okay. oh, that'ses fine, go ahead mr. putin. he did not put nato together, larry, we know that. we saw this under the trump administration where president trump stepped up and said, you know what, nato members? you need to stay true to your commitment to the washington agreement which was 2% of gdp. he got more nato members to ante up than we had seen in previous administrations, so no, mr. biden, president biden is an absolute failure on the world stage and the world is on fire because other leaders see him as being extremely weak and in effective. larry: i mean, it seems to me and you and i have talked a lot in recent years and i agree, started in afghanistan, it runs through putin and ukraine, goes right to the failure in iran and of course hamas, israel. the war continues to rage now. china is still on the march.

not only with taiwan but the philippines. i mean, as you said, the world is on fire. now i'll ask you, in biden's current physical cognitive situation, whatever it may be, is he a national security risk, in your judgment? >> okay, we were just talking about this. politicians rarely can give one word answers, but larry, yes. he is a risk. again, people see him as being weak. we saw 13 of our precious service members that were killed outside afghanistan during that failed withdrawal. we saw just more recently earlier this year, three service members killed at tower 22 by a drone attack coming from iranian -backed terrorist groups, so we continue to see failure after failure and when president biden stated during the debate, just a little over a week and a half ago, that no service members have been killed under his watch.

for heaven sakes we've seen dozens of service members killed under his watch, because of his weakness on the world stage and his inability to push back our adversaries. we need to return to the trump era of peace through strength. we know that we will see that in this upcoming year after president biden is out of office larry: senator, have you formally officially endorsed mr. trump? >> yes, i did that way back, larry. larry: oh, okay, i didn't know >> i think that we're all on board, especially when it comes to national security and this is a great area interest of mine. i do have a daughter that serves active duty. a son-in-law that serves active duty with my own military membership and watching how mr. trump handled our military. he would build it up but he also pushed back against our adversaries. he used other avenue, diplomatic

, economic measures, we've talked about all of that, larry. our world was a much safer place larry: i thought you had, ma'am, and i just wanted to make sure you had. i figured because we've had all these conversations on the air and also i know you. you know, in the platform i just got a half a minute left but in the platform they are talking about the iron dome, missile defense system. the technology may be around. what do you think of that? >> no, i think it's fantastic. we need to make these investment s and make sure that we're protecting our troops that we are protecting our own homeland, so i think it's in credibly important that we do this. we need to invest in our military for decades and decades we haven't done that and we see that the security of the united states -- larry: i've gotta jump. >> failing in these last three years. larry: we appreciate it always ma'am. i'll be right back.

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loving our patients unconditionally. it's one more way aspen dental is in your corner. larry: so forget the biden fol ly. the big story the trump rnc platform pro-growth america first. unity through success. read it. 20 bullets that's all it takes. liz macdonald, pro-growth, she's got it all. liz: that's right we have new details on that this hour, larry pretty exciting stuff. happy 4th to you. joining us now let's get right at it. the evening edit we have from the house doctor's caucus he's