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hegseth plans to return to capitol hill. he's supposed to meet with key republican senators, including the next majority leader, john thune a senior trump transition official telling cnn today will be, quote absolutely critical. that source also suggesting that hegseth hadn't been forthcoming with transition officials about his past behavior over the weekend. the new yorker reported that he was quote, forced out of previous leadership positions for financial mismanagement sexist behavior and being repeatedly intoxicated on the job, end quote. responding to those allegations and others, hegseth has denied all wrongdoing. but amid these developments, a slight change in tone. it might be slight, but it is significant from senate republicans who would need to approve his nomination you know, some of these articles are very disturbing. >> he, you know, obviously has a chance to defend himself here. but, you know, some of this stuff is going to be difficult. you know time will

tell. >> i have not met with him yet. i'm looking forward to meeting with him. we'll be asking questions. but look, the president always gets the benefit of the doubt on his nominees. of course it's concerning, but i look forward to visiting with pete about it and seeing. i'm interested in who pete hegseth is today and who he is going forward. >> i believe that we need an fbi background check to evaluate the allegations multiple sources telling cnn trump's allies are now making a list of possible replacements to lead the pentagon. >> on that list florida governor, the former trump challenger, ron desantis iowa senator joni ernst and tennessee senator bill hagerty. desantis and ernst are both veterans and like hegseth, desantis has previously criticized the pentagon for what he describes as woke policy. should hegseth name be withdrawn, it would be the second trump cabinet nominee to fail, after would be attorney general matt gaetz. just yesterday, i spoke with senior trump adviser jason miller, who seemed fairly certain about his

chances on capitol hill was the trump transition aware of this information about pete hegseth pete hegseth past, and are there any concerns inside the transition about it? >> well, so when it comes to pete hegseth there aren't any concerns. and we feel very good about his positioning for being confirmed by the senate all right. >> our panel is here mark preston, cnn senior political analyst alex thompson, cnn political analyst, national political reporter for axios. megan hayes former director of message planning for the biden white house and kristen soltis anderson, republican pollster strategist and cnn political commentator. welcome to all of you. i would be remiss for not mentioning that it's wednesday so we're wearing pink it's wonderful to have both of you here. kristen, let me start with you on hegseth and how this is looking because it does seem like what's coming out of mar-a-lago in the last 24 hours has really changed in tone. i think what lindsey graham is on

the hill saying about him is pretty significant. your sense of whether trump is really willing to go to the mat. as we learn more about pete hegseth, when apparently he didn't tell them a lot of this and he could have. so my sense is that republican senators want to get to yes on as many of these choices as possible. >> they are not relishing the thought of a fight with donald trump. and frankly, matt gaetz, who had been nominated for attorney general and then withdrew that was going to be, i think, the spiciest fight of all of them. so with him then stepping down i wonder to what extent republican senators are thinking, okay, if we put pressure on now for some of these more difficult choices, can we actually avoid a big fight with trump in front of the cameras during hearings? i think that's notable. that list of alternatives, folks like joni ernst joni ernst from the senate, very well liked in trump world, would be very capable. but i think these senators, they're not relishing a fight with trump. i think they'd rather avoid it if they can. >> right well, but pulling hegseth out now would of course, avoid a public fight

later. i mean, mark preston, i it's like if the list of people that's going to replace you is already out there. i mean, like i mean, as the ship sailed by noon, you know, who knows? what's your sense of whether he can i mean, this is a critical test day for him. we're expecting him to appear in the media, possibly with his mother, who sent an email during his 2018 divorce. basically saying that he needed to seek help because of the behavior that he was exhibiting toward women. yeah. >> devastating. i mean, no matter what his mother says right now, i mean, what she said initially in in that email i think was the final nail in the coffin for hegseth. you know, not only is he an important day for him which i think it will probably be his last day if not one of his last days. it's an important day for john john thune right now. somebody who has to tell hegseth today. listen you're not going to get through. like that's his job. now as the republican leader to try to clear the decks where there are problems, as kristin was saying, try to get through as

many people as possible. and you know what joni ernst? i mean, what a twist on this joni ernst is basically going to sink his you know, we would think that he she would sink this nomination. she could be defense secretary, and she is very well liked. i mean, she is well liked i mean, to add to that, you know, don't look now, but the senate republicans may have really found their backbone in the last two weeks. >> i mean, you could see if what you were saying is true. they could have sunk both quietly sunk trump's nominees for attorney general and secretary of defense, despite this reputation of like oh, they're doing they're just like overly loyal and they're basically very quietly telling trump you know, this person can get through this person can't get through that joni ernst you know, the one thing that she's going to have to overcome is that she's been very supportive of ukraine and its war against russia. a lot of sort of the maga base are very, very skeptical of her. and the way they aren't about ron desantis and ron desantis. you know despite the tensions between the two, the one thing about desantis that i've heard appeals to sort of some of the trump team, the guy is a nerd.

the guy is a wonk and and so why does this appeal to the trump team? well, because the pentagon is a huge, sprawling bureaucracy, and they feel like maybe he actually would be good for that. >> let me say this if if desantis does become a secretary of defense, i mean, look if he gets to the senate, he will be confirmed if he becomes in. we're talking about now a redrawing of what the maga political party is going to look like you know, in a couple of years, because now ron desantis is going to be taken out of florida, where he knows he's been very successful. he's been a successful governor. now he's going to get that foreign policy background you know, with him, and then it's going to be jd who, you know, there's going to be. >> well, yeah, i mean we're setting up for a yes i mean for for desantis. definitely some significant steps towards another. the idea that he doesn't want to run for president again is probably is not is not realistic. megan. but to that point, i mean desantis likely he at least has been publicly vetted in a presidential campaign. right? >> well, right. and it's easier

for senators to take a vote on him. right. i think that the senators don't want to have to publicly go against trump here. they can do this quietly, and no one knows they don't become a target for the maga base or the republicans outside that want to, you know, wage a primary campaign against some of these people so they can. desantis is a person that they can take a vote on. yeah. >> all right coming up next here on cnn this morning, search and rescue efforts continue to save a woman who fell into a sinkhole while searching for her missing cat. plus, the balance of power. how a few republicans may be able to wield significant power in the house, decided by the slimmest of margins. we're going to talk live with republican congressman tim burchett and potential allies. new york city's democratic mayor singing a similar tune to the president elect president biden and president elect donald trump now agree on one thing the biden justice department has been politicized. >> does that sound familiar? i rest my case

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american people have communicated to us loudly and clearly. >> we have a broken system. they want it fixed, and we need to fix our immigration system. we need to secure our border. i made it clear that i'm not going to be warring with this administration. i'm going to be working with this administration in the in the era of cancel culture, no one is afraid to be honest about the truth. well, cancel me because i'm going to protect the people of this city megan hayes, there is a there's a lot going on there. >> i was thinking about all the messaging in the back, minus the pandemic years. is it safe? >> um no. but, like, so he's the cover of the new york post this morning. cancel me. i don't care but there's he's got personal reasons to work with the incoming trump administration. no. well, absolutely. >> i think he needs a pardon. and i think he's going to need a job. there's an election for, you know, his reelection. i don't know that new yorkers are going to support him. and

he will win. but i mean, absolutely, he needs to work with the trump administration. he needs to save himself from going to jail. >> there's this fascinating evolution, because you remember when he was elected, you know, he was joe biden's best friend. he was calling himself the joe biden of brooklyn because they saw their bases as very similar, is that they were anti-woke. they were really appealing, especially to older black voters in new york. and then that relationship completely frayed over this migration issue. the addams, the addams administration felt the biden white house was very dismissive and did not realize the severity of the problem until two years too late right. >> and adams was willing to speak out against it in a way that. yeah. >> and the biden well yeah. and the biden administration basically just deemed him as disloyal rather than taking some of his concerns seriously. >> par for the course for the biden administration sure all right. >> i think i think something that's really interesting about all of this is the way that the conversation about immigration has changed so dramatically in major cities in america over the last year or

two, frankly as a result of some of those policies that were derided as very cruel, of governors from southern states sort of sending migrants along up to these bigger cities, it is really changed the conversation that we're having in this country about the challenges folks are facing. i mean, you look in the news media at any headline coming out of new york crimes being committed, it's so often, oh, this was a person who was here undocumented. they've been living at the roosevelt hotel in manhattan. i mean, it has so dramatically changed the way many of these mayors talk about this issue. >> in many ways. what republican governors did worked for them. >> i mean, we go back to the time when ron desantis remember all of the mystery around how did how did these folks get to you know, up to cape cod basically. >> and it turns out he flew people to martha's vineyard. >> correct, correct. >> with great fanfare. >> correct. but again, you know if you go back to that time and you think oh, you know, that was cruel, that was cruel, the folks up in those cities and in those areas really got a taste of what it was like living along the border. and they

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the next couple of days. so this is called an alberta clipper. the name comes from where it is developed. alberta being the province in canada and then a clipper moving as quickly as a clipper. you know, the ships named over 100 years ago or so. they move very quickly. and that's just kind of the nature of these storm systems. but there's a lot of wind and energy associated with them as well. so when you get wind, arctic wind moving across the relatively warm great lakes, you're going to kick up some lake enhanced snowfall. that's why we have these winter weather alerts. this is kind of a mixture of the snow that will fall from the clipper but also the lake. enhanced snowfall that will fall from the sky once it passes by the way, there's a blizzard warning across the mountains of west virginia right now so we could see near whiteout conditions there. lots of wind that will impact the plains all the way to the east coast. this is for today and into the day tomorrow because winds are really going to pick up. i want you to notice this kind of like a bowling ball moving across the great lakes and eventually reaching the east coast cities. this time tomorrow is going to

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house seat to be called after a month of vote counting. gray is expected win leaves speaker mike johnson with a thin majority that is squeezed further by donald trump's selection of several house republicans to join his administration. that balance of power will give a single member of the gop conference a whole lot of sway over johnson's agenda in the time before those seats are filled. do you remember how that went last time i really don't give a rat's what anybody up here says about what i'm doing. >> the one thing everybody has in common is that nobody trusts kevin mccarthy. >> you go around talking your big game and you thumping your chest on twitter. yeah, come to my office and come have a debate. >> mother, what does it matter? funding the government? the american people don't give a i got elbowed in the back, and it kind of caught me off guard because it was a clean shot to the kidneys. >> and i turned back, and there was. there was kevin there was

kevin. >> joining me now is the man that you saw there, republican congressman tim burchett of tennessee. congressman, thanks very much for being here. thank you. >> i was hoping you were going to say i was going to be the most important member of congress in that intro when you started that i thought you were here i am. well well. >> but his ego isn't that kind of the deal, though here for republicans in congress. i mean, any it's it's this is a dynamic we confront in the senate all the time. but it's a smaller body. any single republican member could potentially hold up all of the business at hand. are you willing to do that, for example, or how do you if it's if it's if it's morally correct, if it's something that i really believe in, if it's a you know, if we continue down this path of economic destruction, spending our great grandchildren's money. >> yeah, i will and i have and we'll continue on that path until we regain some sanity if we could just do like we do in tennessee single issue spending bills, you know it's it's a great way if you're in power, democrat or republican, you

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causes the devaluation of your dollar. and and we just can't continue on this, this path. all we're doing is really just just buying our reelection and both parties are guilty of it. >> are you happy with how house speaker mike johnson has approached this issue, and has he talked to you in the conference about this? >> yeah, i'm i'm incredibly pleased with the work that he's done. he's had a tough situation you know, we've when he came in, he had to we had republicans that were in districts say in new york that were joe biden had won by 15 points. yet they were republicans elected there. so he had a really fine line to walk. and he had to i guess you could say, protect them as well as protect the integrity of the conference and and mike johnson is a very honorable man. i find him to be he's an unusual person in that position because he he didn't get there by cutting people's throats and or cutting backroom deals he just he's been straightforward. and i've enjoyed working with him. >> let me ask you about pete hegseth the defense secretary nominee. he's going to be on

capitol hill today. he's actually going to be meeting with some house republicans in addition to this critical meeting that he has with joni ernst in particular, the senator from iowa. do you think that pete hegseth should continue as donald trump's defense nominee? do you thineve they bring up things that are unfortunate in their life and everything that they've brought up, though has been a every, every claim that they've made against him has been the justice department or whoever has decided not to prosecute for whatever reason. so to me, that leaves, um, you know well, i think that a lot of the allegations, i mean, there was a police report around a sexual assault incident out in california that was not pursued recently over the weekend in the new yorker. >> there were allegations from an organization that he led that he financial mismanagement of sexual impropriety, sexist behavior. and then there's this letter from his mother who basically said in the course of

his divorce that he had a problem mistreating women. uh what would your mom have ever said? i mean, what how would you feel if you were in that situation with your own mother would never have written a mama would have said honey, i've raised you better than that. >> and she would probably smack my jaws. but i would not have i would not have been in that situation. i, you know, i don't know that that's a family situation. you always wonder how those emails came to light. and, you know, the court of law is, is is all we really have to go on. it's what we've seen in the past with these investigations. they're just investigations. and until somebody comes forward with the proof um, you know, i think it's going to be up to up to the united states senators. >> all right. congressman tim burchett very grateful to have you on the show. the most important member of the house republican conference i'll keep telling myself that you and every other one of your 435th most powerful member of congressman, and thank you all for having me. thank you for being here. all right. still ahead here on cnn this morning

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woman's confrontation with an armed soldier going viral as she screams, aren't you embarrassed at him opposition democrats who control the national assembly vowing to bring treason charges and launch impeachment proceedings if yoon does not leave office he should step down, resign immediately. >> this is the mandate of the people. >> south korea's largest union vowing to strike until the president steps down. yoon's chief of staff and other top officials already submitting their resignations. yoon declared martial law and then rescinded it after accusing south korea's opposition party of sympathizing with communist north korea. cnn's ivan watson joins us live now from seoul where a candlelit protest march is making its way straight toward the president's office. ivan, what are you seeing? yeah yeah. >> casey. >> i mean, it's almost 9:00 at night here, and there are thousands of people marching through seoul right now to the

president's office. this was part of a protest started by a labor union. that is calling for the president to resign. people here chanting for president yoon suk yeol to be arrested. this, of course after he declared what may have been the shortest martial law the world has ever seen in an announcement tuesday night that was followed by these dramatic events where lawmakers gathered in the middle of the night at the national assembly. there were soldiers that tried to stop them they failed and ultimately about 190 lawmakers voted to overrule martial law, among them 18 members of the president's own party which has also come out condemning what he did before dawn this morning he backtracked and canceled martial law. but now he's got to face with the aftermath of that his own political party calling for his

close ally, his defense minister, to resign his chief of staff and a number of top officials have resigned. and meanwhile the opposition political parties are preparing for an attempt to impeach the president. so he's really politically in hot water right now. but i need to stress the fact that even though there is in effect, a form of a political crisis, it's not really being felt on the streets. i landed at incheon airport, the main international gateway to south korea, this morning. it was functioning normally. there was no unusual law enforcement or security presence there. at lunchtime the restaurants downtown were full of office workers grabbing lunch they were talking about this and everybody i've addressed this with is incensed that the president tried to do away with decades of democratic

governance. in a move that really shocked this nation but the political consequences look like they will be affecting this country for some time to come indeed. >> ivan watson, for us on scene in seoul. ivan, thanks very much for that. really appreciate it. and with more on the latest developments in south korea, we're joined now by washington post columnist josh rogan. josh good morning. thank you so much for being here. i want to pick up where ivan left off. there in terms of what the repercussions are for a significant ally of the united states democracy in terms of what we're seeing around the globe. >> sure. it just goes to show you, casey, how fragile this idea of democracy is. >> it's a it's a bargain. it's an agreement between leaders to share power, to respond to the people and it depends on everyone sort of doing their part. and good news here is that president yoon didn't succeed. he tried to

impose martial law. he tried to bring korea backwards into a military dictatorship. and it didn't work. but it could have worked. and anywhere in the world you see a democracy struggling. it really is those institutions and those people who stand up to the people who are trying to abuse power, that keep those democracies going and we see similar things in europe, and we see similar things here in the united states. and it's just a lesson to all of us. i think that this whole idea of democracy is something that we all kind of have to buy into, or it doesn't really work in the end yeah. >> what are the implications for what's going on here for the incoming administration, for american relationships with china? sure. we know how president trump felt about kim jong un in north korea for example. >> yeah, i think it's a disaster for us-south korea relations on a couple of levels. one is that you know, you have an incoming trump administration that's really skeptical of allies. president trump wanted to withdraw troops from south korea the last time. now he's got a pretty good excuse. if he wanted to do it again, he didn't succeed the first time. he might succeed the second time. so we really need a strong ally in asia in

seoul. and right now it's just a mess. their whole democracy is in upheaval. that's not good. another thing is china. you know, china is making the argument to all of these asian countries that democracy doesn't work that authoritarianism is better, that dictatorship really works better it's not true. but today it kind of looks kind of true. and so anywhere in the world you could see the trump administration saying, well, is this democracy thing really something that the american people should be in the business of? south korea is not really putting up a really good argument for that. right now. >> kristen soltis anderson how do you look at what josh is talking about here, especially with trump coming in? >> well, i think yesterday if you were watching the coverage minute by minute, it was you were wondering, is the system going to hold? right. you had the parliament there in south korea voting to undo the martial law. but you had the military right there at the building. and this was a case as he mentions, that the system held. you know, i'm a little bit dismissive of the idea that donald trump being elected democratically is a threat to democracy. i feel like that gets talked about a lot. but we do need strong institutions to

ensure that anybody who's in power, certainly any executive, does not have power and does have does have the ability for their power to be checked. i should say by other parts of the government. >> yeah. it's not completely ridiculous because donald trump, the first time he was president, tried to use the military in ways that were unprecedented in american democracy. so it's not crazy to think that he might try to do that again. and president yoon was democratically elected, too, and he just tried to pull off a military dictatorship so, you know, i don't think it's something that we can dismiss. it's actually something i think that trump donald trump himself, has thought about a lot. so we should look out for it. >> all right. josh rogan, thanks very much for being here this morning. really appreciate it. all right 48 minutes past the hour. here is your morning roundup in just a few hours, the u.s. supreme court will hear arguments over a transgender care ban in tennessee. the biden administration sued the state over the ban, which prohibits parents from seeking gender affirming care for their children roughly two dozen similar bans have also been passed in republican led states donald trump's pick to run the fbi, targeted by iranian

hackers. sources tell cnn that kash patel was recently told by the bureau that he was targeted. one source says they believe hackers accessed at least some of patel's communications deliberations resumed this morning at 10 a.m. eastern in the manslaughter trial of daniel perry. perry is a former marine accused of killing 30 year old street artist jordan neely by putting him in a choke hold on a new york city subway car. prosecutors allege he acted recklessly while his defense argues he was protecting others from a threat president elect donald trump is doubling down on a joke he made to canada's prime minister last week, sources tell cnn. during a discussion over tariffs with justin trudeau, trump told him that canada should become the 51st state if the move would harm their economy. trump is now posting about that joke, cling thisted image of him next to the canadian flag, with the caption o canada okay all right, let's turn now to this in just a few

hours. executives from five major airlines are set to testify on capitol hill about so-called junk fees. a recent congressional report revealed that from 2018 to 2023, five u.s. airlines made more than $12 billion just on seat selection fees. last year, united airlines charged as much as $319 for extra legroom while spirit airlines charges as much as $299. >> the airlines are relying more and more on these junk fees as a source of revenue, and they are obscuring them very often. you as a passenger won't know how much you're being charged until after you buy the ticket. >> all right. our panel is back. um, mark preston you fly a lot for work. these fees have gotten like crazy right? i mean, the the sticker when you look at, you know, hey, i want to fly on delta airlines on a basic economy fare from where you get to from that fare to

actually getting on the airplane and forget even sitting together with your family necessarily. sometimes they don't even guarantee that, okay, i don't want i certainly don't want the bosses to be watching right now because yesterday i booked flights for the holidays and like, literally, i'm not kidding. >> it took me about three hours to figure it out and i'm not a good consumer for the airlines because i will try to find the best fare possible, much to the chagrin of my children who expect to be you know, you know, seated first class. and i'm like let's go on spirit. even if it is bankrupt let's go. but no, but it is expensive. i was i was shocked at not only how expensive it was but how the ledger like how the fees added up and i was like, wow, that's that's ridiculous. >> kristen how do you think americans feel about the airlines? and all of this? and does that mean clearly the biden administration, pete buttigieg, have made this a huge priority? right. like passengers bill of rights, kind of making it easier for you to

get money to claw your money back from the airlines in all of these different ways. now, that said, it is actually a tough business as well and we need the airlines to be able to function accordingly. but where are americans on this? yeah, i mean, the difference is that if you have a policy that is forcing the airlines to sort of uphold their end of the bargain, right. >> if they promise you a service and that service isn't delivered, the ability to somehow get your money back that's something that's pretty popular. but the reason why these airlines do this isn't because consumers hate it, right? they're still in a market where they're trying to compete with other airlines. delta is still competing with a spirit or something like that, and you have some customers that say, you know what, fine, stick me in the overhead bin. i don't need a bag. i don't need legroom. give me a fare that's $30. and so the idea of these, they're calling them junk fees. but the airlines always push back and say, this is really about making sure that that person that doesn't care about legroom doesn't want to bring on a bag. if they want a super cheap fare, they can get it but then you, as the consumer who wants a normal flying experience, it does look worse for you in the cart but i view this more as something

that companies should be deciding. what do customers want? and if customers find these fees to be obnoxious, then surely some airline is going to figure out just charge a flat fee. don't do it that way and they'll benefit in the market. >> yeah, this is a supply and demand thing, right? like people are paying for more legroom. like i will pay for more legroom or someone else might not. and so this is a supply and demand. they wouldn't be doing this if consumers were not participating. >> yeah but but the problem is though through all of this it's not just that that we perceive these as junk fees. it's the whole industry. you know, you go to the airport you have to be there. how many hours early? then you get there and then, oh, by the way, the airline doesn't tell you that, you know, you're delayed three hours. oh, by the way, by the end of the night, we have no flights. you know so there is this anger at the industry because we are reliant upon it to actually move around. i mean, in many ways they have a monopoly because, i mean it's it's either the airlines that are in the sky that are flying or like get on a bus. >> but to kristen's point, the fact that we're now all calling them junk fees has actually been a sign of like the biden administration's success at

labeling these things. i mean they're just fees, but the fact that they're junk fees is really caught on in a political way. and that's why you're going to see them on capitol hill. >> i would just say that if they could start charging for your carry ons, i think i might like that better so that, like, everyone could just put their stuff underneath the plane instead of us having to wait while everyone jams a suitcase. i mean i am guilty of this, okay? like jamming the overfilled suitcase in the bin. i don't know my personal pet peeve. all right, let's turn now to this. this has emerged as a top priority for elon musk and vivek ramaswamy's, newly formed department of government efficiency it's 10 a.m. >> you didn't set your watch forward happy daylight savings time saving daylight savings time is today saving. >> and it started yesterday. >> mr. speaker, daylight saving not plural time has never saved us from anything what's the pet project of veep's? >> jonah ryan, elon musk and vivek ramaswamy have set their

eyes on daylight saving, not plural as they look to cut government inefficiencies and now their effort may have some bipartisan support. democratic congressman jared moskowitz becoming the first democrat to say he will join the new doge caucus, intended to support musk and ramaswamy's department i'm sure there's going to be things that elon and vivek are going to come up with that i'm vehemently going to disagree on, and i will make sure that i'm a loud voice voting against that stuff. but we got to go to where the conversations are happening. >> the idea that we're not going to go to these places and just pretend the conversations aren't happening is not a way to conduct business here. >> so we've done junk fees. now, where are we on daylight saving time alex, i mean watch they're also going to say that we should go back. >> we should go to the metric system next. i feel like that's going to be their next thing. i think you're going to see. just like elon musk and vivek, you're going to see a bajillion ideas thrown against the wall, and you're going to see what sticks. >> yeah. but i do think that david, the daylight savings time thing is something that

might happen. they almost got it through the last congress. and it was it had a bipartisan push behind it, and it kind of died at the end. so we tried it back in the 1970s. >> right. permanent daylight saving time saving time. and nobody liked it right. so i personally would be miserable if it was daylight saving all the time. now, granted, that's because i do this like very, very early shift right standard time is much preferable to me, but i mean, kristen, do you think this is something that would actually happen i mean, there's an economic argument around permanent daylight saving time, but again, for actual human beings, it's another thing. >> well and add to that the fact that if you have little kids, getting them to bed at a strange hour that they don't totally understand is also not a lot of fun. but i do like in the summer that that the sun is out longer. i think there's a higher likelihood that this happens then, that we change to the metric system. i certainly cannot imagine a trump administration cowing to our european allies and giving them the metric system. >> yeah, well, so speaking of the children have probably, you know, who else has problems with daylight savings time? dogs let's let's look at this,

okay. this has become a whole thing on tiktok. like what happens to your dog on daylight savings time? watch sally you already ate your dinner. >> you asked for it during lunch today are you confused with the time change? you already ate today? >> it's not in her time. it's only for worst day of his life. >> my dog thinks it's her time at 3:00 pm every day. anyways so this is not relevant because he always thinks it's dinner time. >> what do you think? >> i mean, i think that when that when major newspapers say we don't know if this is a joke or not when they are talking about that just shows that like maybe doge isn't going to be the most serious thing and that there are probably other things in efficiency besides daylight saving time that we could be talking about right now but what do i know? >> well i've i'm not sure i actually knew it wasn't daylight savings time until today in this script. thanks, jonah ryan, for teaching me that all right. i'll leave you with this. the ymca taking another turn in the spotlight

it's fun to stay at the ymca it's fun to stay. president elect donald trump turned the song into his unofficial anthem on the campaign trail. he played it at rally after rally but ymca gets people up and it gets them moving. village people founding member victor willis tells cnn his group received thousands of complaints from people over trump's use of the song since 2020, and they wanted them to bar trump's using it. but now, willis says he had a change of heart. >> i um, noticed that trump actually likes the song and that he really seems to have a lot of fun with it, and that was our reason, and my reason for allowing him to continue to use it because he really just likes ymca like so many other people do. >> among those people, how about the world's richest man,

elon musk, who was seen dancing to the song alongside trump during thanksgiving dinner last week in mar-a-lago it really has become kind of like now. the ymca is so deeply associated with trump and you're seeing football players do the dance. >> in the end zone. and just the the you know, i'm not going to do it, but i'm going to say terrible. >> you just made a gif of yourself. you just did it will you do it? this is it, right? >> i mean, that's how he does it, but doesn't it make you like it reminds you of, like, a bad seconds wedding when he starts doing the dance and then people you know in the crowd start doing it it's it definitely evokes wedding, but, you know, it's become a cultural thing yeah. >> does this mean we're going to see the electric slide next? if 90s wedding is the vibe that we're going for here, i mean macarena. yeah. but you know what the other song that i like, i think wasn't tiny dancer. a big part of his rallies earlier on or that's, that's the song he really likes the soundtrack at trump events is actually quite varied and different from many other re