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have you with us. happy friday. in just hours, the supreme court is expected to release its latest opinions, including one that might determine the fate of america's one of america's favorite apps. >> the president is now on tiktok. it's my honor. >> hello, everybody. >> i'm having a lot of fun here. well done. >> yo yo yo yo. >> i'm scared bro. >> i'm going to save tiktok without intervention from the nation's highest court. >> the ban on tiktok should go into effect on sunday, though it does seem that one of joe biden's last acts as president may be to punt on the issue. the associated press reporting biden will not enforce the ban, and a white house official telling cnn biden also won't use his authority to issue a 90 day stay. that's part of the law. the decision will be left

to his successor and sources close to president-elect donald trump say he's considering granting an extension. here was trump's incoming national security adviser, mike waltz. >> we will put measures in place to keep tiktok from going dark in the legislation allows for an extension as long as a viable deal is on the table. and then, you know, essentially that buys president trump time to keep tiktok going. >> if trump can buy time, who can buy tiktok? the first possibility? one of trump's closest allies, the wall street journal, reports this, quote, chinese officials have internally discussed options, including the possibility of allowing a trusted non-chinese party such as elon musk, to invest in or take control of tiktok's u.s. operations. people familiar with the discussions said. as the world's richest man, musk could easily afford tiktok's price tag, which forbes reports would be in the 40 to $50 billion range. that is how much

musk paid for twitter in 2022. last year, musk came out against a tiktok ban. he wrote this quote in my opinion, tiktok should not be banned in the usa, even though such a ban may benefit the x platform. doing so would be contrary to freedom of speech and expression. it is not what america stands for, end quote. musk has not commented on the wall street journal report, and a representative for tiktok owner bytedance told the paper that it was, quote, pure fiction. so could there be another billionaire trump ally out there who might be interested? >> hamas wolf blitzer. everybody's asking me, why do you want to save tiktok? because it's good for american business. that's why my companies use it. it's the best way right now to acquire customers. so we don't want to turn it off. we don't want it to go dark, but we can make it even better. as i like to say, let's make tiktok wonderful again. >> okay. joining us to discuss mark preston, cnn senior political analyst. alex thompson, cnn political analyst, national political reporter for axios. kate bedingfield, cnn political commentator and a former communications director for the biden white house. and brad todd, cnn political commentator

and a republican strategist. welcome to all of you. thank you so much for being here. i kind of want to underscore how we got here and why this is such a flip flop. like, let's watch what donald trump say. said. this is him going back and forth and back and forth. because if you remember, this whole thing was actually originally his idea. watch. >> we're looking at tiktok. we may be banning tiktok. we may be doing some other things. it'll either be closed up or they'll sell it. so we'll either close up tiktok in this country for security reasons. i'm going to save tiktok. biden wants to get rid of tiktok. you know why? why? because he has no idea. i'm now a big star on tiktok. i have a warm spot in my heart for tiktok because i won youth by 34 points. i think that's a big, you know, a big credit to tiktok. so i'm not opposed to tiktok. >> brad todd, how did we get

here? >> well, donald trump is a creature of pop culture, and nothing is more pop culture than tiktok. and i think he's also attracted. >> that was true in 2020, and it is true. it is true, but it is still it's still a villain on the right. >> and so he has torn between this desire to please the right, which definitely sees tiktok as a legitimate national security risk and villain, and something that's cool. and i think he's also a little bit attracted to the fact that it's an outcast among social media platforms. it's the black sheep. it may be the only platform. he's not been banned or suspended on to. or for that matter, that he may like that about it. i do think in the end, republicans on capitol hill still have great concerns. we don't let government devices use tiktok for a reason. it's because the chinese communist party sucks in all the data and does. who knows what with it. so i think that donald trump has a tough road with republicans in congress on this. >> and i'll just add to that, a lot of the people that trump has appointed are china hawks, people that have, you know, in the past, previously spoken out against tiktok, and there's going to be an internal divide within this

administration, this incoming administration, about what to do about that. >> let's watch what mark warner, who's of course, has been he's the outgoing senate chairman of the intelligence committee, had to say about this. take a look. >> i don't get it. 80% of the congress, democrats and republicans, agreed that tiktok is a huge national security concern. and the irony in all of this was donald trump was the first guy to point out this problem. matter of fact, his administration had to convince me and kate bedingfield. >> now, also, the biden team seems to be willing to go along with letting trump do what he wants to do about this. well, i think the biden team is saying we're out of here on sunday and this is now your problem. >> i mean, i don't think this is a i don't think they're making a statement of policy so much as saying this is a thorny issue. and, you know, guess what? when you become president of united states, this is your problem. but i have to think, unfortunately, the chinese government is probably salivating watching our government fall all over itself to try to walk back. this policy that, you know, 80% of congress thought

was necessary. and by the way, the data concerns and the concerns about the chinese government having influence over the algorithm that that is determining what young people across this country are, are seeing, those concerns are still there. there's this there's the political issue that donald trump believes that tiktok helped him win the election. and it you know, it probably did. but should that override the concern about giving the chinese government undue influence across the on the minds of kids all over the country? i would argue it should not. but that's where we are. we agree. we do, we do. >> but i'm confused. so so i'm confused that marco rubio is somebody who was supposed to be carrying on the policy of donald trump over the next four years as, as his secretary of state. yet he's against tiktok. donald trump is for tiktok. we know donald trump gets what he wants. the head of tiktok is going to sit in a seat of distinguished whatever on on the dais, on on monday. um.

i'm confused. why is it i guess i'm confused with republicans. why is it okay to not have it on government devices? but it's okay to put it on our children's devices. i don't understand, i think most republican policymakers would agree with you that we should not have it on either government devices or on our kids devices, and i think in the end, tiktok is in trouble in the united states over this. >> the policymakers are not going to drop their concerns if they get a 90 day reprieve here. this is not the end of the story. >> uh, are your guys kids addicted to tiktok? >> oh my god, that's where they get their news. is is from is from 1920 year old. i mean, that is the biggest story right now. i know everyone's focused on the inauguration. i mean, if you're between the ages of like 12 and 32, you're focused on what's happening to tiktok over the next couple of days. >> there's no tiktok in my house. >> oh, god, listen to you, dad. >> brad! over here laying down that the chinese government. >> love it. >> oh, man. all right. coming up here on cnn this morning, a space-x fail. what went wrong

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related to any conversations with donald trump. >> it's new congress. we just need a fresh horses. and in some of these places is not a president trump decision. this is a house decision. and this is no slight whatsoever to our our outgoing chairman. he did a great job. >> but congressman turner does not seem to agree with that characterization. cbs news reporting that turner told them this, quote, house speaker mike johnson fired him, citing, quote, concerns from mar-a-lago end quote. turner also confirmed wednesday night that he had been removed from the committee. entirely. um, brad todd, this is the wall street journal editorial board takes significant issue with this. they also take issue with tulsi gabbard, and they sort of tie those two issues together. but they write, mr. turner has been one of mr. johnson's main supporters in the conference. the speaker is sending the wrong message about the rewards of loyalty. it's one thing for the speaker to let mr. trump dictate to him on policy, but control over house leadership should be the speaker's

prerogative and his ouster of turner is a sign of weakness. >> i disagree, first off, mike johnson came into to this congress as speaker after in mid-term last time. he was not involved in selecting the chairman of any committees. last time he was, he was a backbench member. this time he is in charge. the speaker has wide latitude to pick the chairman of committees. it's only right that mike johnson have a little bit more latitude to pick the chairman. and by the way, if he deems that part of the reason to pick that chairman is to to cooperate with the senate, intel chairman donald tom cotton, who is from arkansas, same state as rick crawford, who's going to be the new chairman of intel is from that's his right. if he wants to pick someone who could work with the administration, that's his right. i think this is a completely legitimate move by by him. and turner is not the most popular member of the republican conference that's probably playing into this, too. >> mark preston that's his right. but the reality is, is, is that when they set up the government, when the founders set up the government, there were three equal, you know,

separate branches of government. and right now that doesn't exist in washington, d.c. donald trump controls the legislative branch right now, controls the executive branch. and some would argue he also controls the supreme court right now. so this town is entirely run by republicans. and mike turner. there was never in as far as him being removed. johnson didn't give any reason why he was removed. and it seemed like turner was doing a fairly good job at a pretty volatile time right now in in our foreign policy. >> yeah. i was going to say to add to that, i think concerns from mar-a-lago is going to be a phrase we're going to repeat a lot over the next four years. and, you know, mike johnson is also, you know, the broader context is there's a little bit of a competition between who has more influence over donald trump, mike johnson or senator john thune on the senate side. and you're going to see both of them trying to cater to donald trump over who can, you know, lead legislative strategy. >> this goes both ways. donald trump needs mike johnson and mike johnson needs donald trump. they're going to end up collaborating and compromising on some of these things. but i will go back again. tom cotton is the new chairman of senate

intel. brand new situation there. his delegation mate is now rick crawford going to be the chairman of house intel. this is a better thing for the united states security. >> it is true that the leaders of the congress are going to work with the president of the united states, but what is unique about this situation is that in donald trump, you have a president who has flouted political norms, has flouted constitutional norms. i mean, go back to the underlying issue that seems to be at play here, which is turner's criticism of trump, you know, getting on the phone and behaving in a way that runs counter to historically, the way a president would conduct himself. and i think the idea that mike johnson is going to kowtow to trump by putting somebody in place who will stand back and say, it's fine for donald trump to put his own political interests. this actually ties in some ways to this conversation. we were just having put his own political interests ahead of the security interests of the united states. that's that's a problem. this is not a normal, um, situation where you have leaders in congress trying to work with a

president. you have a president demanding leaders who are not going to hold him accountable for behavior that is potentially dangerous to the interests. >> this is the intel committee, though. this is not a this is not an oversight committee. these are people who are supposed to work with the agencies and the administration. >> well, no, it is supposed to be. they do have a very strong oversight role in the wake of the church committee and other things. >> yes, that's true, but john ratcliffe is a former house republican and mike walsh is a former house republican. i think it's fair for the administration to say, we would like to have people on the intel committee who we're comfortable with and who we can work with. >> all right. coming up next, israel and hamas reach a deal for a cease fire. and the remaining hostages, even as more israeli airstrikes killed dozens of civilians in gaza, plus, trump names, names, the actors who will be special ambassadors for him in hollywood. what you see all done. >> raj? yeah. grab the cat. kobe. >> the making of a legend

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back to the 80s. that is ronald reagan era. the second time he was inaugurated to go back to the coldest ever inauguration. so we're we're actually comparing it to that. so we're going way deep back in the records. we anticipate that noontime temperature to be about 22 degrees. that's the actual temperature you factor in the wind. it's a whole different story. we'll get to that in just a second. arctic air. yeah that's a lot of purple. that is a lot of cold. and it's not just casual cold. we're talking about the potential for dangerous cold, especially throughout the midwest. the great lakes and yes, all the way to the east coast. so this is sunday. look at d.c. 12 degrees. that is for monday around the inauguration time. that is the wind chill. that is what it will feel like on your skin as you step outside. to make matters even more interesting, more complicated, worse, better, whichever way you look at it. half glass, half empty, half full. we've got a snowstorm on sunday that will blanket d.c. to new york and boston with a fresh layer of snow behind it. that's when the cold arctic air settles in. and yeah, you might not actually see the

mercury rise above the freezing mark until friday of next week. good luck. casey. terrific. >> our city is so good at. i don't know if you've ever been down here for inauguration. derek. moving around this town is absolutely impossible when they're underway. and if we have three inches of snow on the ground the night before, we are not exactly very good at that either. it is going to be a total mess. derek van dam, thank you. i really appreciate it. all right. still ahead here on cnn this morning with donald trump returning to power in just a matter of days, how are democrats approaching his second term in office? senator juan ron wyden joins us live to discuss his personal philosophy about fighting for change in a polarized washington. plus, cryptocurrency gets ready for a moment in the spotlight with an inaugural ball and a special guest with so much drama in the lbc, it's kind of hard being snoop d o double g, but i somehow, some way keep comin up with funky. >> cnn news central. next.

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ungracious of biden to say, oh, he did it. >> he didn't do anything. if i didn't do this, if we didn't get involved, the hostages would never be out. they would have never come out. >> and cnn's bianna golodryga is joining us live now from tel aviv with the latest. bianna. good morning good morning. casey. >> so, as you noted, the security cabinet is meeting right now, a full cabinet vote is expected tomorrow. this deal is expected to pass. it has overwhelming support among the government's cabinet right now, despite some hurdles that we saw yesterday with far right security, national security head itamar ben gvir saying that he would resign effectively from this government if this deal actually went through. there are others on the far right, finance minister bezalel smotrich, who has also spoken out against this deal. he has threatened to leave if, after phase one of the deal, that

israel is not allowed to go back into gaza, that he has threatened to leave this government. nonetheless, as i noted, overwhelming support the prime minister's office here stating that subject to the approval of the cabinet and the government, and the implementation of the agreement, the release of the hostages could take place according to the planned outline, with hostages expected to be released as early as sunday. and among those hostages are women and the elderly men over the age of 50, including american keith siegel. i spoke with his brother lee and asked him how this moment is feeling for him right now. >> plus, genuinely, until all 98 hostages are home, i have a part of me that there's a hole keith is going to fill. a big, huge part of that hole for all of us. our entire family. but we all know that without 98 hostages coming home,

something's missing. israel is not able to get back into a routine of looking to the future, where we're in recovery. they all need to be home and that is a sentiment shared by almost everyone here in israel. >> there is high anticipation and excitement at the fact that we will start to see hostages hopefully released on sunday. but as we heard from lee siegel, the concern is once this first phase ends, whether or not both sides can agree to move on to phase two, where the remaining hostages would be released. all israel is hoping and counting on the return of all 98 hostages after 15 months in captivity. casey. >> all right, bianna golodryga for us with that. bianna, thank you so much for your reporting. i really appreciate it. all right, let's turn now to the story. as president joe biden prepares to leave office, he's making a pitch for his economic

legacy, in particular his investments in infrastructure. you may remember last year, his former chief of staff, ron klain, reportedly said this about how biden talked about those bipartisan achievements on the campaign trail. quote, i think the president is out there too much talking about bridges. he does 2 or 3 events a week where he's cutting a ribbon on a bridge. if you go into a grocery store and you know milk and eggs are expensive. the fact that there's an effing bridge is not, i think that it doesn't get covered that much because, look, it's an effing bridge. and yet, in the final days of his presidency, biden has kept coming back to bridges. >> the mistake we made was, i think i made was not getting our allies to acknowledge that the democrats did this. so, for example, the new billion dollar bridge over the river, we'll call it the democratic bridge, figuratively speaking. talk about who put it together. let

people know that this was something the democrats did. i almost spent too much time on the policy, not enough time on the politics. >> and new this morning, the new york times reporting on a private and reportedly emotional meeting between senate democratic leader chuck schumer and president biden that happened on july 13th. that was a little over two weeks after biden's disastrous debate performance. the times reporting that schumer told the president, quote, if you run and you lose to trump and we lose the senate and we don't get back the house, that 50 years of amazing, beautiful work goes out the window, mr. schumer said. but worse, you go down in american history as one of the darkest figures, and he would end with a directive if i were you, mr. schumer said, i wouldn't run. and i'm urging you not to run. joining us now is democratic senator ron wyden of oregon. he is the ranking member on the senate finance committee and also the author of the new book. it takes chutzpah, it takes chutzpah how

to fight fearlessly for progressive change. senator, good morning. thank you so much for being here. thanks for having me back. congratulations on the book. i do want to start with this new bombshell, new york times reporting, and a little bit more of what? of what they put into their story. it was july 13th, 2024, a humid summer afternoon just before 4:00. mr. schumer, the democratic leader of the senate, was about to make a blunt case to mr. biden that he needed to drop his bid for a second term if there were a secret ballot among democratic senators, mr. schumer would tell the president no more than five would say he would should consider continue running. what is your reaction to this? and did you feel at this time that the president should have stopped his bid? >> well, first of all, chuck schumer and joe biden have a long relationship. chuck was a credible and persuasive connection because they go back to the years working on judiciary committee issues. that was a real common bond for him. so i think that was the right move for senate democrats to reach out through senator schumer. i will tell you. and i

thought a lot about this, too. i'm having town hall meetings this weekend at home. i've had 1100 of them. and i've said to my staff, the day that i can't do these open to all town hall meetings, stand there, take unscripted questions for an hour and a half. i've got to do something else. and clearly that was part of this. i think that the white house hadn't had joe biden out there doing those kinds of sessions. and and we saw the consequences. >> did you feel at the time when biden was still running for president before that debate performance, that he was up to the job? did you have any concerns ahead of time during the first days of the term, we worked very closely together, and he was on the program. >> you know, i wrote the biggest investment in fighting climate change in american history. it's in the book taking the long game. president biden was with us every single step of the way. we said, we're going to reward people who reduce carbon. we're going to have an effort to lower energy

prices. it stood together. he was all in. but clearly after that big package went through in the first couple of years, i think he was not out on the trail as much. not in part. those spontaneous discussions. and it showed. >> do you blame him for democrats losing the white house? do you blame his decision to run for reelection? >> look, this was very personal and everybody understood it. obviously, it would have been better if he had made the judgment earlier, because on certain kinds of issues, like food prices, for example, there's discussion about what to talk about. i told everybody the focus has to be on those issues where the second word is bill. it might be medical bill, it might be gas bill, it might be rent bill. that's what people are talking about. we're dealing with inflation. that message got lost. >> did you know that schumer had had this meeting? was this done with the knowledge of your colleagues and the support generally? >> colleagues? i mean, certainly, senator schumer talks to all of us. the big joke is he knows all of our phone numbers by heart. so, yes, there is no question that

he was going to do this, that he was the person to do it. those years of working together, particularly on judicial issues and the judiciary committees, made him a good fit for it. >> and you were supportive of it? yes. let's talk a little bit about your book. you mentioned it's called it takes chutzpah and you have a number of rules of chutzpah that you kind of walk through. one of them is, uh, rule number four. it's show up every day prepared to play, and it's in a chapter that you have about bouncing back and that, of course, very relevant to where democrats find themselves politically today. what lessons do you have in the book that you think your party should be applying today? >> well, first of all, everybody needs to know what chutzpah is. it's grit and nerve. and frankly, it's america at its best. >> it's a great word. i have to say. it says a lot in a little. just a few letters. >> if you think about it, the original proponents for the founding fathers, because they took on the british, they told them to go fly a kite. that's what american history. and we really need it now more than

ever, because we've got huge economic challenges. we're going to have to cope with a.i. and technology. i came to the united states senate when only pat leahy knew how to run a computer, and i got a op follow probably signed contracts today with the digital signatures law. so this is a crucial time. and i tell everybody you've got inner chutzpah. everybody's got it. and my rules are designed to help you polish the chutzpah and make a difference. >> um, so at this point when you talk about tech, the other thing i wanted to touch on with you before i let you go is what biden said the other night in his farewell address, talking about the tech industry, oligarchs running the tech industry. has it gotten out of hand? do you share his concerns? >> well, i think the tax code is broken, and that's what he's really talking about. you know, i made the point that we want a tax code that gives everybody in america the chance to get ahead. well, firefighters and teachers, they

pay taxes with every paycheck. if you're a billionaire and you've got good lawyers and accountants, you can figure out what you're going to pay, when you're going to pay it. and essentially, you can go for years on end if you buy, borrow and die paying little or nothing. we need to have a system that gives everybody in america a chance to get ahead. bill bradley, great basketball player, and i've been working on this for years. that's the way that america will be stronger. and we have to have the chutzpah to take on those powerful tax lobbyists and get these reforms. >> all right, senator ron wyden, i'm so grateful to have you on the program today. thanks for having me, for having a conversation. congratulations on the book. and the book is it takes chutzpah. it is out now. you can buy it at the strand bookstore, which is a family, allied family business, a beloved institution in new york city. all right. straight ahead here on cnn this morning, donald trump's inauguration set for monday with all the titans of tech in attendance and a few notable absences, michael smerconish will be here to discuss. plus, spacex failed at starship rocket that caused some

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wealth in his first inaugural address, however, donald trump accused a different group of the very same thing. >> for too long, a small group in our nation's capital has reaped the rewards of government, while the people have borne the cost. washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth. >> my panel is back to discuss more about this. i'm kate bedingfield. trump's second inauguration indeed, going to be a much different reception than 2017. >> yeah, it will be interesting to see what kind of tone he strikes in his speech on on monday. obviously, the first everybody remembers american carnage and this kind of very dark vision of where the country is. and we heard a lot of that from him on the campaign trail. but now he he takes the reins. and so it will be interesting to see if he uses this as a moment to try to appeal to people who maybe didn't vote for him. i'm not

sure i've ever seen donald trump really do that, but it might be smart of him to do it. so let's see. that's one thing i'm going to be looking for, but i think there is also this question. he's in this unique space where he is he is an incumbent president in many ways, but he also doesn't. he's trying to present himself as as change, as a new direction. can he thread that line, or is he going to feel like somebody who was once railing against the tech elites and is now invited them to sit on the dais with him? it will be. it's going to be interesting to see how he navigates that line. >> brad, can he be, you know, morning in america? are we going to get morning in america, donald trump or american carnage? >> well, he's he's a lot more prepared to be president than he was in 2017. he has a lot more clearer idea of what he wants to do. i think it's also important that he doesn't look like he's going to be greeted with 250,000 protesters the next day. i think it set his administration back that the democrats just absolutely treated him as an illegitimate president in 2017 and protested him from the very first day. i think that was a big setback

for his administration. that's not happening this time. i think that bodes well. >> to brad's point. there is no women's march planned for the day after this inauguration. the other thing is trump has also been very, you know, has been obsessed with how his first inauguration looked, especially the crowd sizes. but everything about it and and, you know, he's long you know, you had sean spicer come out the day after and be like, this is the biggest inauguration in history. but they have raised $500 million for this inauguration. and it's going to be very interesting to see as someone that's as image obsessed as donald trump is, how it looks. >> yeah, that's how it looked back in 2017 on the mall. >> you know, for all the pomp and circumstance that's going to happen on on monday morning, as it should, and he should revel in the success that he's had. the reality is it's going to be what happens like 3 or 4 hours later when he starts signing executive orders. and then if they start putting in place some of these things, such as are we going to round people up, put them in detention camps and then send them home? i mean, i think there's going to be a

immediate whiplash on on monday from people being like, oh wow. like, oh, my god, what is happening here immediately? >> all right. well, so speaking of where donald trump stands going into this, the president elect is seeing more positive ratings heading into his second inauguration than he did the first time around, according to a new cnn poll, 46% of americans view trump favorably. that's his best number since just after the 2016 election. the same survey determined president joe biden's approval rating sits at a low of 36% right now. despite that, he is defending his administration's record in a new exit interview. >> i got a lot of criticism, understandably, we've invested more in red states than blue states. >> that's in this book, that's in this report for two reasons. >> one, red states really screwed up in terms of the way they handled their economy and the way they handle manufacturing and the way they handle access to supply chains.

>> joining us now to discuss, because it's smerconish friday, is cnn's michael smerconish. michael, good morning. wonderful to see you. good morning. i honestly would just kind of take your reaction to how president biden is, is handling this on his way out. i mean, he clearly is very defensive of his administration and is having a tough time saying goodbye. >> so why are incoming president trump's numbers for him so high? i think it's because of where outgoing president biden's numbers are. as you've been pointing out, both in terms of job approval and favorability. they're related, but they're two distinct entities. biden is leaving at an all time low 36% job approval. he's got a favorability of 33%. donald trump's numbers exceed in each of those categories. i think it's because of a comparison of trump versus biden at this low point. here's the silver lining for outgoing president joe biden. when jimmy carter

left office, he had a 34% job approval rating in 2023, when voters were asked when americans were asked retrospectively how they regarded president carter, he had a 57% approval and probably at the time of his passing, most recently, it would have been even higher. what's my point? my point is, these things are fluid. >> well, i mean, look, your point is actually made by the fact that, you know, people felt one way when donald trump left office and it only took four years for them to decide. well, actually, that wasn't so bad. our memory has changed. michael, i want to ask you about this story that the new york times just posted it. it really walks through. it's it's it's an excerpt from a book or reporting for a book from two of their journalists walking through senator chuck schumer, the then-senate majority leader's role in pushing joe biden off the stage. they detail a meeting that he had with biden the week before. biden ultimately decided to drop out. but there's an interesting piece in

it about what schumer and, you know, i'm very interested in your take, but clearly there's an effort here to try to write the story about the way that democrats didn't expose what was going on with president biden at the time, because here's what they report. they say, quote, for months, mr. schumer had been concerned that mr. biden was going to lose to mr. trump and cost democrats congress. it wasn't that he thought mr. biden was not capable of the job. during their weekday conversations, the president often rambled, but he always rambled. once in a while, mr. biden would forget why he had called, but mr. schumer thought little of it. he was convinced that mr. biden could handle the job, but with the republican messaging machine deriding him relentlessly as old and senile, democrats were hard pressed to land any attacks on mr. trump long before the president's disastrous debate performance, mr. schumer had privately concluded that the barrier of mr. biden's age was too much for him to overcome. what's

going on here is this revisionist history and this detail about biden calling the majority leader and forgetting why so i have a couple of thoughts about this. >> first of all, probably schumer is familiar with the data that you and i have just discussed. right? they were looking at internal numbers all along and seeing that it was probably an unwinnable race. and secondly, i'm convinced that there's a whole backstory here. we've never been told about the machinations of the democratic leadership and how president biden was actually forced out of the election. i mean, can i remind everybody that george clooney, not chuck schumer, not barack obama, not nancy pelosi, it was george clooney writing that opinion piece that was a catalyst for the domino effect that then caused president biden to step aside and and get out of the race. i've always believed that. we've never been told everything that went on, and with all the warning signs that triggered the alarm bells were, and i just hope the story comes

out not in a negative way toward president biden. i'm not, you know, hoping for him being besmirched. but i just think we don't know everything, and we ought to. >> yeah, it's history for sure. briefly, michael, i want to get to this because it's interesting to me. eric adams, the indicted mayor of new york, is going to go meet with donald trump at mar-a-lago. what do you think that's about? >> oh my god, pardon me. i think we all know what it's about. i think that that monday, tuesday is just going to be so difficult to, to maintain pace with the amount of news that will come out of the new trump white house. and i would be shocked amidst all the executive orders if there weren't a ton of pardons, including jay sixers, by the way, that really troubles me. so i think that the mindset is probably one of get rid of the pardons, deal with them, maybe eric adams, maybe not, because there'll be so many other things going on that the media is going to be consumed with so

much news that it wouldn't have the impact that it would at a different time, say if he did it six weeks in advance. so buckle up for monday and tuesday. >> yeah. good advice. michael smerconish, thank you as always. wonderful to see you on this friday. casey. everyone out there, don't forget to michael smerconish tomorrow morning on cnn. thank you. all right. let's turn now to this donald trump making a very important personnel announcement over truth social. last night. >> it is my honor to announce jon voight, mel gibson and sylvester stallone to be special ambassadors to a great but very troubled place. hollywood, california. wow. braveheart. rambo. in the midnight cowboy, he summoned the three horsemen of the apocalypse to save us. in other words, trump saw the expendables three on his plane last night, and he's like, mm, all right. >> donald trump tapping those three actors to serve as, quote, special envoys to me for the purpose of bringing hollywood, which has lost much business over the last four

years, to foreign countries, and to be his quote, eyes and ears. mel gibson telling variety that he was, quote, just as surprised as anyone else. any chance the position comes with an ambassador's residence? the braveheart star added of course, he's been through a lot in the last few days. as for the stallone pic, well, we know trump loves winners. and. he gonna try now. so mark preston, this is one of those things we know donald trump ever since he you know the kid from queens wanted to be accepted. hollywood has never accepted him. there are a few who have. they're going to be the new, quote, unquote ambassadors. but we are seeing some movement among celebrities as well. i mean, carrie underwood is performing. it's a little bit of a change. >> gavin degraw. yeah. you know what we're seeing, too? we're seeing the definition of hollywood has expanded from beyond the traditional l.a. actors. right. it is now influencers. it is folks on

youtube and what have you. i think you're going to see a lot more people start to come out for trump because they feel comfortable with it. >> i'd also just add a little twist on what you said, which is that hollywood used to love donald trump and. and, and and then they and then he sort of feels they turned on him. and so this is a way of trying to win them back when they're pulled back. >> but can i just say quickly, though? we should also should not forget mel gibson has used the n-word. he has said all sorts of anti-semitic things. i mean, look, it's donald trump's right to not pick whoever he wants to be. his ambassadors to hollywood. but i, i don't think we should lose sight of the fact that mel gibson has a really troubling history. >> we pick ambassadors to foreign countries, and hollywood is about as foreign for middle america as you can get. so i think we need to think about some foreign relations with hollywood after this is over with. maybe cut a treaty. we'll see what happens. >> uh, mark preston, very quickly. we've got about a minute left. um, this is the last friday of the joe biden administration. on monday, we're going to wake up. donald trump is going to be

inaugurated. what are your thoughts going into the weekend? >> i think look, it's mcconnell is right. i mean, it is going to be fast and furious monday, tuesday, buckle up. because i don't think that this country is ready for what's about to hit him. >> alex, i completely agree. i think trump feels an incredible amount of incredible mandate, and i don't think any amount of media backlash is going to get him to sort of stop. >> okay. i mean, it's a it's an emotional weekend for me in some ways. i work for joe biden for almost ten years. so i'm watching the end of of a lot of work that i was really proud of. so for me, it's it's emotional, but i also certainly agree with these guys. i think trump feels the wind at his back, and i think he's going to see that that honeymoon is going to evaporate sooner rather than later, is my guess. >> on joe biden's first day, he issued executive orders that opened up the border essentially in many ways, and also drove up the price of energy. both those two things were the seeds of his destruction. so watch donald trump's first day. let's hope it works out better for him. >> all right. thank you guys all for joining us. have a

wonderful weekend. thank