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earlier this afternoon, not once did he mention the word iran but we're stowing going to get to that in a second with my great friend bret baier. let's get to the latest own israel-hamas war what is happening on the ground. correspondent mike to be ben is live in tel aviv. what can you tell us? >> reporter: a couple takeaways from the president's speech that resonated in israel that the u.s. is increasing force posture in the region and ready to supply israel with everything it needs to defend itself. the shortly after the speech i was randomly approached by a stranger here in tel aviv who says israel appreciates the u.s. the skirmishes continue. when the sun goes down the rockets go up, interceptors go up in the sky to meet them. we have video from the town of ashkelon, on the northern end of the gaza trip which is subject to so much violence in recent days. the round of rockets that came over to ashkelon, was provided

by a warning from hamas the rockets were coming. the rockets came. the interceptors went up after them. no word on casualties. there was fighting in ashkelon, gunman slipped through a security perimeter laid down by israeli forces or possibly he was left behind. the gunman was contacted by israeli forces in the town of ashkelon. no word if that gunman was killed. in the president's speech today, the number of americans killed out here is 14. the number of them presumed to be kidnapped cannot be pinned down. we spoke members of for people who were kidnapped and they are terrified. >> they were fish in a barrel, sitting in this bomb shelter. terrorists came to the door. they were throwing grenades in and shooting machine guns and we know that hirsch's arm from the

elbow down was severed. >> as grenades were being thrown in, they were tossing them back out. they were trying to comfort people. >> reporter: the air campaign continues over the gaza strip or into the gaza strip with unprecedented strength and devastation into this area, densely populated with civilians. the area from which hamas picked this fight. the area to which israel is spending. on the edges of the gaza strip israeli armor, israeli forces ready to begin the ground invasion. we know tonight that prime minister benjamin netanyahu met with his security cabinet in israel's version of the pentagon here in tel aviv. we'll see what comes out of that meeting, if indeed that will start the tanks rolling for this anticipated ground offensive. larry? larry: mike tobin, thank you ever so much from tel aviv. we appreciate it. all right, folks, now at last count the hamas, hezbollah, iranian barbarians, killed 1000

israelis. 14 americans included in that maybe more. that number will keep moving. babies found beheaded, grannies pulled out of bed and murdered, entire families massacred. it is like a something out of middle ages as bad or worse than anything isis did. i must say tragically president joe biden addressed the nation tonight, this afternoon with one of the most disappointing speeches i have ever heard. of course the attack in israel was evil. yes, americans have been killed and taken hostage. yes, the toll on israel is heart breaking and yes, the united states will stand with israel and supply them with military assistance but these promises after the more risk hamas attack are almost cliches at this point. the question is, the real

question is, what is joe biden going to do about this catastrophe? what policy changes will the united states make to combat the iranian-funded weaponized and planning behind the hamas attack? what joe biden has to do is completely reverse his failed iran policy. stop appeasing and playing footsie and cozying up to iran. forget about the terrible nuclear deal and recognize the biden administration has been financing iran's war machine. here are some facts. the $6 billion released by south korea may be aimed at humanitarian assistance but money is fungible and it will provide breathing room for other accounts to promote war and terrorism. the same can be said for the $10 billion released by iraq. then incredibly the u.s. dominated imf has provided

$6.7 billion to iran. really? what is that about? my friend chris gorgiva should be ashamed of herself. the biden relaxation on economic sanctions, most particularly oil sanctions added another 30 to 40 billion of financial assistance to iran to bolster their war chest. the total comes to 50 or $60 billion. this insanity must be stopped. recall, please, in the tough sanctions imposed by former president donald trump iran oil production was less than a million barrels a day. today it is above 3 million barrels per day headed for four at oil prices ranging from 80 to 100% barrel. maybe a small discount to their biggest purchaser china, that's no good. then we don't know how much money iran is making shipping drones to russia but we do know that the united states has stopped impounding the shipping

vessels iran uses to circumvent sanctions. we have note denied iranian planes overflight rights. we have not closed iranian banks with access to the west, nor have we stopped iranian operations of european businesses. why aren't we treating iranian officials like they are and sinking iranian naval boats that threaten international shipping? from this i want to give a hat tip to senator mitch mcconnell. his very fine "wall street journal" op-ed piece mentioned all of that today. look, if you cut off iran and drip -- cripple its economy, and stop its oil flows and end its financing then you will truly help israel by dealing a death blow to hamas resources. iran is the hamas supply line, got it? why didn't mr. biden talk about that today? if he pledges undying support for israel he must unequivocally

stop iran but that four letter word, i-r-a-n, had his delayed truncated address. trump understood the difference between strength and weakness. trump pulled out of misbegotten obama iranian nuke deal. trump took out baghdadi all of isis in syria. trump look out soleimani, the number one bad guy in iran. you think that sent a message to iran? of course it did did. trump laid down tough economic sanctions and basically stopped their oil production and starved their economy. came the abraham accords negotiated peace deals with israel, regarding trade, investment and in effect mr. trump was surrounding iran with all these abraham accord peace deals.

the entire political dynamic of region was changed. during trump's tenure there was no massive hamas invasion of israel. why can't the bidens learn these lessons. there is a difference between strength and weakness. and that is my riff. enough said. joining me now, my great friend and colleague bret baier, anchor of "special report" tonight. author of rescue the constitution, george washington and the fragile american experiment available everywhere today. got to sell some books. bret baier got me through the predebate 15-person thing with style and content as you always do, brett. welcome to the set as always, sir. you know, you can't help israel without slamming iran and changing the policy. that's my take. what you think? >> yeah i think it's right on. a strong letter to follow, larry. you know i think you nailed it as far as the criticism and you know they are hung up, the biden

administration is, on the criticism about the six billion dollars for the hostage, the american hostage exchange but it is not the six billion dollars. they say not a penny, not a dean far has been removed from that account. not about that. it is what you talked about, releasing, relaxing of sanctions to the point of you look at oil exports just to china, 2020, 6.6 billion. 2021, 23.1 billion. 2022, $30 billion. iran exports to china. larry: those are great numbers. i have to get my paws on those numbers. >> that is what you're talking about. it is not this whole thing about the hostage -- that is a factor, iran has a factor i have six billion coming in i can do something with something else but it is really what you're talking about here. the fact the president didn't mention iran, tells you all you need to know, they are defending this iran policy which really funnels money to hamas and

hezbollah. larry: i see it as iran is the supply line toe hamas. there wouldn't be no major invasion if it not for iran. i don't understand, you talked to kirby this morning about this. we're hearing from jake sullivan. i do not understand how you can be israel's friend and really help israel as the majority of american thinking wants to help israel, our great ally, the only democracy in the entire region, you can't do that unless you go after iran! i don't mean bomb iran but you have economic sanctions, oil sanctions, business sanctions. i mean i got to give credit, mitch mcconnell wrote a very good, toughs at kel today in "the wall street journal." don't know if you saw it. >> yeah i did. larry: a couple paragraphs what we should be doing to restore sanctions. where are the sanctions? why won't the bidens do that, bret baier. >> they defended saying sanctions are still there but they're not enforcing them. you can have them there but they're not enforcing them.

i think it is a big, big issue. i talked to the saudi crown prince over in saudi arabia. they said they were close to normalization. i talked to the israeli prime minister. they said they were really close. off-camera both men said it is going to get done. i think the closer they talked about it, the more iran, hamas, hezbollah, wanted to screw it up. larry: do you think those talks continue? >> they do. i'm told -- larry: saudis won't start shifting -- >> they put out a statement as pro-palestinian at the beginning, how they usually say the palestinians need to be helped but now it is involved they're really concerned about civilian cab wallets. you can't turn your back on the depravity of some of these attacks. it is grew somewhat we're seeing -- larry: wee bit of politics. you really need a house speaker to provide money to israel.

what do you think of about that story? kevin mccarthy is coming on in a few moments. what do you think about this story? >> i think he is still in the mix. i think he can be the default choice or the be the king-maker probably jim jordan. it is i think you will have a speaker vote that coalesces because of the urgency of the moment over in the middle east and people see that as a big moment. you could even have problem solver democrats say, i'm going to throw my hat, my vote one way to try to move this thing quicker. because i think everybody realizes that you need to do stuff as a congress in order to have that happen. you have to have a house speaker. larry: one other question, i want to get to the constitution in a minute. i love selling books. >> thank you, larry, your books have been great sellers down through the years. you were great on the radio show this weekend but the southern border is still a gigantic problem. we can talk about terrorism in the middle east and so forth, so on, but a lot of that stuff is creeping through the southern border.

kevin mccarthy gave a speech about that but i wonder what you were thinking? i do not hear the bidens ever talk about the southern border. >> no. today bill melugin along that border got a document shows where people are coming from, coming across that border. thousands and thousands from countries we consider foy meanting -- fomenting terrorism, afghanistan, all throughout the middle east and they are getting across that border and the numbers are just going exponentially up. so the threat there and terrorist watch list, the people who have been on the terrorist watch list has increased in recent months. so that's a major threat and mccarthy is right to talk about that. larry: yeah he is. meanwhile to rescue the constitution, george washington and the fragile american experiment out today, i read the intro. i have not read the book yet. i will plow through the book because i love history. george washington was almost, if it's possible he was an underrated figure. i know he is the father of the country but regarding this

constitution you don't think of george washington. you think of hamilton, madison, some of the others but not necessarily washington. >> yeah so, these books, this is the fifth presidential book that i've written. i try to look at a soda straw moment and focus on that in narrative form and show hue the leader gets to the moment. the soda straw moment is the constitutional convention. washington is recruited to be the head keep a lot of people together. a lot of people don't remember or don't know after the u.s., the forces win against the british then the country falls apart and it's a lot of people say they want to go back to british rule. it would be easier. constitutional convention happens. george washington holds people together. obviously becomes the first president. nobody was writing a note on the oval office note for him. nobody was passing ther to much. he was really the torch. this fills in the blanks.

larry: would woe we have done without washington? >> we wouldn't be a country. larry: you hate to say it history sometimes revolves around great men. >> that's right. larry: it is an old theory in history but it is an important history. >> we have a lot to learn from that time. we could use a washington right now. >> i've been around a long time, i just miss the washington era, i just miss. i came back. promise me if i do another 15 guest program i will be there. >> you did fantastic with breaks and everything. larry: bret baier, "special report" weeknights 6:00 p.m. own fox news. pick up the book book to rescue the constitution, george washington and the fragile american experiment. one click. thank you, bret, ever so much. coming up the aforementioned kevin mccarthy gave a blockbuster speech yesterday. i think it is the kind of speech joe biden should have given today. mr. mccarthy joins us next to

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yesterday which was terrific stuff. here is the aforementioned kevin mccarthy had joins me. welcome as always on our show. in your speech yesterday, you had a lot of stuff but one of the things you say is that the number one threat to america is not climate change, which is what mr. biden says repeatedly. you say the principle threat is open borders down south. can you elaborate on that? i mentioned that with bret baier. that is a really a key point. >> you should learn from history. there are some things we learned what happened in ukraine, what happened in afghanistan, leaving americans behind. first you don't want to leave any american behind here. you want to be very clear with that. you want to stand shoulder to shoulder with israel but we should learn from what happened in israel. you know you look at this horrific, what we found today, these babies in this kibbutz. i was in that exact kibbutz on february of last year taking a tour with those individuals.

they had two walls there. what we have is an open border. if you look in 2019, we had caught zero number of people on the fbi terrorist watch list. as of so far this year, 151 coming from 160 different countries from yemen and others this is exactly what they're doing. you could have a cell inside of america right now. do you think iran, you talked about this, i was with president trump the night we killed soleimani. i was there and they have never forgiven, never forgotten about that. they watch what we continue do. they planned this entire operation and we have appeasement with this new administration. think of this one part, how successful you all were in the trump administration, okay? if you look at the foreign currency reserves for iran, when you were in charge, when biden first took over it was $4 billion. it is 70 billion today. i didn't just say you freeze that six billion. what you really should do is when biden took over iran was

only producing 400,000-barrels a day. today it is 3 million. this is where the real money is at. the sanctions are already there. they will not enforce them like president trump did. by not enforcing them, they are capturing probably $60 billion more and they are funneling that directly to hamas. you got a secretary of state who does not directly tell the american public, saying we don't have complete truth about iran. yes you do. there is no way -- iran says they planned it. "wall street journal" has the facts. we all know it and you've watched what happened in the 1930s with this axis of evil. well that same thing is happening today. iran, russia, and china. all three countries that want to expand their sphere of influence. so what are they going to sit and think? and this is a real concern to me. if i followed those few inside of congress, matt gaetz ever the

world shut the government down, what do you think would be happening in the world right know? if they want to remove me as speaker if i was willing to pay our troops, think what they would ask of our troops today without being paid? larry: kevin, two things, biden never mentioned iran. i-r-ia-n. truncated, terrible speech i ever heard. biden never talks about the southern border, the open border. >> no. larry: you hit on two key points in your speech yesterday, here in your remarks to us on the show. i don't know how to change this, kevin. besides beating him in presidency he won't change! >> no he won't. larry: jimmy carter changed. bill clinton changed many years ago. this guy and his advisors don't want to change despite the fact that their policies are an utter

failure in disarray? >> he was just in vietnam last month. he said the number one issue, more important than even atomic war, or nuclear war he said was climate change. he has shifted -- he has shifted our intel agencies to focus on climate. they are laughing at us around the world. climate is important but not the number one issue that we have. what we have is we can have sleeper cells in america today based upon what he has done on this border, based on what we see happening in the world. iran is funding terrorists coming across. he, his speech was too many days too late. he didn't take any action in his speech, and thirdly he wouldn't take questions. larry: amazing. >> he created this appeasement. what did he first do? he backed away from the "abraham accords." he attacked our allies in the middle east. went after saudi arabia. then he appeased iran which only infuriated people more.

then he pulled out of afghanistan after giving putin, lifting sanctions off nord stream 2, he was neville chamber rain of this moment, showed nothing but weakness. pushing allies closer to china, helping develop the axis of evil, helping appeasement around the world. this is what which get today? it is wrong. larry: you're talking a lot of sense. kevin, let me ask you, in the republican conference meetings if you're nominated to run for speaker again would you accept it? >> i asked those that want to nominate me not nominate me. let those two running to go to see if they unite the conference. larry: if there is a stalemate, kevin, do you have any intending shun of supporting somebody? >> i will support somebody. they will try to be able to put this together. one thing we have to learn in the country as well, if we still have eight people in our conference that will partner with all the other democrats we don't have a majority. if eight people, 4% of our conference can go against 96% of what we want, we don't have a

conference. and those people are not conservatives. you and i are conservative that want to govern. those are individuals that want to get clicks and be on camera. that's not governing. larry: you're right, 100% right. i said so all the time during this shall we say episode. if we don't have a speaker we can't appropriate the money. >> can't do anything. larry: to israel among other things. they got to get it done. will they get it done the next couple days, kevin? can you make a forecast? >> we could, we would get it done on wednesday to be able to move forward but i think the conference is pretty divided still. there has to be consequences for actions. there has to be ability to unite this is the real concern that i have, look i was able to name patrick mchenry to assume this role right now. he should have the power to do this. this all was created after 9/11 if something was to depose the speaker. this is what we're able to do. i think he should be able to have the power to continue the continuity of government.

you don't want government to shut down. what we really need to be able to do is show strength with israel. we should resupply the iron dome because they're trying to overwhelm the iron dome. those first rockets are probably dumb rockets to wear out the iron dome and come back with precision rockets. we should make it very clear. larry: you won't run, you won't run, that is the bottom line? >> look i think the conference has to make those decisions. we have two people running today. let them unite this conference. larry: kevin mccarthy, great american, i will continue to refer to you as speaker. that is your title. you earned that very much. thanks for coming back on the show, my friend. we'll talk soon. >> thank you, larry. larry: folks coming up here on "kudlow," when will joe biden stop playing footsie with iran and hold them accountable for this war and other things as well? we will ask former japanese ambassador and senator bill hagerty. we'll talk about what is happening on the ground with

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♪. larry: once again why is joe biden playing footsie with iran for so long? that is the key to understanding this whole disasterous war. joining me to talk about it, senator bill hagerty, foreign relations committee, former ambassador to japan. senator, you tell me. in today's speech, we talked about it with bret baier, he didn't mention iran. how is that possible? how is that possible? >> it is just shocking how the biden administration has tip-toed around this. we all know the world's greatest sponsor of terror, that's iran. iran is at the very heart of this. they're behind this. we allowed them to enrich themselves under the biden administration and, larry, you and i know how the sanctions were working under the trump administration. we worked them together to impose them. we got japan to stop buying

iranian crude. we were at a iran ready to bargain. they waited to the outcome of election. bidens came in. they looked the other way of sanctions. we allowed them to increase tear capital accounts $50 billion in just additional oil sales since they came in. biden administration signed off with iraq to make a 10 billion-dollar payment to iran. most recently the six bill dollar ransom payment. we put iran the position to do precisely what they have done. what we've seen israel and saudi arabia were coming back to the table that president trump set in terms of the "abraham accords" that we were at the precipice of getting done at the end of the last administration. you worked on that too, larry. iranians saudi arabia is it, israelis come back to the table. last thing they want to see prosperity and freedom that goes wit to break out in the middle east. i think that is the inspiration of this, toe disrupt the entire process using their proxies of hamas to do it. the fact joe biden won't speak

to the cause of this i think is absolutely shocking. larry: senator hagerty, do you think it is possible after this whole invasion, barbaric invasion, do you think that the bidens are still going to try to work with iran to make a nuclear deal? i mean they seem like they will never give up. bring the by, as you may have heard, they don't want to talk about it today. sullivan, nse sullivan denied it. kirby, spokesman, they don't want to talk about iran. biden will not talk about it. do you think they will still try to make a deal with iran after this bar bear rake invasion? >> isn't it shocking, larry, the administration wants to talk about the root causes can't seem to see the root cause of disruption in the middle east is. the root cause is iran. they're destablizing force. the ability ever this to happen goes to the heart of what the biden administration foreign policy failures have been. allowing iran to enrich itself. failure in afghanistan putting

our hands in the weapons of hamas. failure after failure of foreign policy standpoint delivered the prompt in the middle east. the fact they won't look the cause in the eye is shocking. i say one thing joe biden did finally acknowledge israel's right to defend itself. as u.s. senator i have will hold this administration to that. took a a shame took them a few days to -- first communiques were out of the palestinian affairs office asking is railing to not retaliate. secretary of state talking down his tweets, about sees fire, placate the far left. it is ridiculous. we call it what it is iran is at the heart of this. they're trying to destablize the middle east because they are worried we're in a position where israel and saudi arabia might actually instigate economic policies that would drive peace and prosperity. larry: that is an important point. those tweets, subsequently deleted that is the kind of advice they're giving biden. secretary of state suggestioning

we have to have immediate cease-fire, what, really? the other thing is, senator hagerty, all right, so biden talks to netanyahu. what did he say three times today or three times in the last two days. that is great. he wouldn't talk to him, he dissed him for over two years. he wouldn't bring him to the white house. still hadn't been to the white house. they met at the u.n. there is just a certain phoniness to this. the whole world is watching and you know kids are being beheaded. grannies are being murdered. so i understand that. it is a tragic, heartbreaking story in israel and joe biden is along with that but i'm asking you is there any fundamental policy change that might really help israel, right? if you want to help israel you got to, you got to put the clamps on iran, starve them, bankrupt them. >> we need to snap back the u.n. sanctions that were waived to need to be s.n.a.p.ed back.

we need $6 billion back from south korea to qatar start imposing sanctions and enforcing sanctions that exist on illegal petroleum product from the iran. that is how to make it stick. that is how to make it hurt. iran is selling drones to russia. the same technology that will be utilized here in israel. we have got to come at this from every angle. we can stop it. we have to get the united nations to move in the right direction. we need our allies to move in the right direction. only way to do that is united states to demonstrate leadership itself. larry: sure is. senator hagerty, thank you very much, i know you're very busy down in texas, we appreciate your time. honestly, thanks for helping us out. folks we'll move right along, joining us aaron cohen, former member of israel counter-terrorist operations unit. aaron, i'm kudlow. i don't think we formally met. >> good to meet you kudlow.

i've been watching you for years. i'm a fan. larry: all right. israeli air force doing the work right now. the army is on the wait. can you give us a sense how you think the israeli army is going to play it on the ground? >> well, so this is the way we work in israel. let me make this clear, we, this isn't our first rodeo with being attacked on multiple fronts. we saw this in '73. we're seeing it again now. we spent a lot of time in and around gaza. we had multiple scraps in that southern section just south of israel. so you have got air force operations that are using selectivity. israel here is to you know national rules when it comes to strikes. we tap and knock. we drop leaflets. we're a little less persistent about it right now. we're against the clock. i will get into that in a second. we have selective airstrikes happening. so you know special operations, idf special operations forces on the groundworking with air force

f-15s, f-35s, f-18s to laser those targets. we have to put laser designate technology on those targets. you have to infiltrate gaza undetected. dress in there plainclothes. a lot of work. very dangerous time right now, but that is the air force special operation units also known as the kingfisher unit. we have the general staff reconnaissance unit, which is bibi netanyahu's old unit that specializes in intelligence gathering. they're doing two things. planting listening devices behind enemy lines in gaza. putting recording devices up. we have probably thousand agents within our intelligence agency service, shin bet security service, listening to thousands of cell phones right now. it is a monster undertaking. the intelligence and prep work what we're looking at right now. by the way the general staff reconnaissance unit, that is the same unit that rescued 103

hostages from entebbe beau grand today. bibi's brother who was a national treasure only casualty on the unit. inconjunction with the, translate, israeli national police counterterrorism hostage units one of the three top units in the world they are planning with that general starve reconnaissance unit multiple hits to be able to get to those hostage targets. here is the problem. israel is on the clock. unlike rescues you haven't heard about which i'm familiar with which happened in southern israel, over 20 hostages were freed by imam. imam took three casualties. one in critical condition. tier one hospital. trauma center. larry:e planning multiple

operations which i believe israel is going to use, to smoke screen and chaos from this counter offensive that they're preparing right now with 300,000 reservists in conjunction with this unit, the brigade, equivalent to israel's marines who are part of the southern command. they are the one who fought in gaza five years ago. they will use the smoke screen and the confusion to launch multiple hostage rescue operations. israel didn't invent hostage rescue but we sed to do in the

idf in my unit. larry: aaron, aaron, people want to know, god bless, this i larry: can you just blow hamas out of gaza, blow them out.

>> we can't and which won't. larry: you got to. >> we'll blow them out of the water, let me make a correction i might have misflood you. we'll not destroy gaza, not turn night 23450 a parking lot. larry: i agree with that. it is hamas, barbaric terrorist. >> we can do that but this will take time bu columbine and gunng people down. we had 2500 terrorists come into israel with ak-47s. now we got to get all of our israelis -- larry: american terrorists, american hostages too, is that possible? >> potentially, potentially, i got to be careful what i say here you can understand, the state department has been in close contact with israel. israel and the u.s. are thick as thieves when it comes to sharing information and intelligence. larry: yes. >> we're israel's forward operating base in the middle east.

we have carriers coming to israel right now. so everybody is in cahoots. larry: i'm on it tightly. aaron cohen you're terrific. great analysis. and you know what, the most positive thing i've heard in the last 72 hours, i really mean that terrific stuff. >> appreciate you. larry: come back to help us more. >> anytime, buddy. larry: coming up we'll switch gears a little bit. what the hell is wrong with harvard and columbia? backing terrorists instead of israel? larry summers, former harvard president, get as medal for protesting the protesters. we have liz peek and charlie hurt when we come back. i'm kudlow. we'll be right here straightd ahead. at it's not just a comfortable interior... it's a quiet refuge. they're not just headlights... they light the way forward.

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schools. i went to one of those schools, not harvard particularly. >> i did not. >> no boasting allowed. larry: you're only honest guy here. what is wrong with the kids and what is wrong with administrators wouldn't say the right thing. >> that is what letterry is offended by, president of harvard, he was president of harvard university should take a stand denounce what these kids this is like 41 student organizations, basically are blaming israel for being attacked by hamas. and this is, look, this is a very popular thing on campuses these days, that the palestinians are oppressed people. israel is the on press orb oppressor. there is this big narrative how israel done damage to the palestinian people. no one talks about the hamas, is the one that prohibited economic development in the gaza strip. larry: economic development? they're chopping off babies heads and pulling grandmothers from their bed.

they are backing them, what are they doing? >> we have congress people, rashida tlaib has palestine flag outside of her office right now. she has not spoken. larry: charlie, are these harvard kids on your mailing list? >> they should be. i think it is great that larry summers came out and condemned this and he should. larry: yes. >> he is partly responsible for this because this is not something that happened overnight. this has been going on for decades and people like larry summers allowed it to go on for decades as they led places like harvard. it's, it is total ignorance about current affairs. it is ignorance about history. it is ignorance about, it is, a, you know, condemnation and ignorance about humanity and the idea that these people, you know, this is what, and wrong-headed as these kids are and as stupid as they are the reason you send them to college

is to be around adults who actually know the answers to some of these questions. larry: where are the adults? where are the adults? where are the adults? they're no adults in room, seriously. >> whether you're talking about how many genders there are or who is right between terrorists and law-abiding citizens of israel, to me it is no difference. when you teach fantasy and emotion to children or allow them to sort of like, steepen this nonsense you can't be surprised that they wind up with some really vial movements. larry: lightning round, liz peek, rfk, jr., robert kennedy, not running as a democrat, running as an independent. >> i think it says a lot about joe biden. larry: to switch gears. >> clearly joe biden is a ridiculous candidate. rfk hopes to appeal to a party where something like 80% of the party doesn't want joe biden as their candidate. look, the democrat national committee refused to have any kind of debates, refused to have

an open primary of any kind to let rfk in to compete with joe biden so this is his revenge in a sense. look i think it will be a problem for joe biden. i know there is clatter it will hurt trump more than biden. i think that is absolute baloney. larry: old line democrats love the kennedy name. charlie, this is way too easy, who will be the next speaker? we had kevin mccarthy on tonight very good on policy stuff. i don't want to run i will go with the conference. i wasn't quite sure, what is your take, charlie? >> i would have said jim jordan on friday afternoon. after all of this went down, you know, things got real sear us up in there and when that happened i think that changes the dynamic considerably. the most interesting thing about it -- >> and therefore? and therefore? >> kevin mccarthy, the fact that mccarthy is clearly making an effort to be visible suggests to me that unlike his, he, i thinkr

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