to should look at equities not just because they get 4 or 5% in money market as tempting that may be. ashley: 20 seconds left, john, very quick. a lot of people expressed concern about 2024, all of this will come home to roost. are you one of those? >> i any you really have to go back again to the fact that some stocks discounted a lot. the real estate sector is down 30%. banks are down 30%. ashley: right. >> when i look at all of those areas you have a lot of opportunity in 2024 to be positive. ashley: john mowery, great information, thank you so much as we head towards the closing bell in about 15 seconds. [h. [closing bell rings] the dow off 191 points. hanging stuff but still in the positive. that will do it for "the claman countdown." the one and only larry kudlow -- larry: hello folks, welcome to "kudlow," i'm larry kudlow. all right, israel enters its

third week of war against the barbaric hamas, hezbollah, iranian terrorists. at least 5700 people have been kill including 1400 israelis, 32 americans. lucas tomlinson has the latest for us. lucas, welcome back. what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, larry, hamas has released two more hostages. these are two elderly females, both in their 80s. they've just been turned over to the red cross. they're in the rafah crossing in egypt waiting to be turned over to israeli forces. earlier israel's defense minister speaking at a navy base told his forces to get ready to assault gaza. >> translator: be prepared for our operation. it will come soon. we are preparing thoroughly for the next step, a multilateral operation in the air, the ground and the sea. do your work. get ready.

we will need you. >> reporter: larry, earlier today the israeli air force killed five hamas commanders in a strike in gaza. israel security forces vowed to under down and killed for those responsible for the october 7th disaster just like they did for munich. a special unit has been formed to carry out this mission. they carried out a rare airstrike in west bank and idf in shin ben. that is the internal agency they say folded a terrorist plot at the mosque in western city of jeanine. all operatives were organizing quote, imminent terrorist attack. here in tel aviv, senator lindsey graham led a bipartisan delegation of 10 senators here. i asked alabama senator katie britt if she supports israeli invasion into gaza? >> hamas has to be eradicated. you cannot ask the people of israel to go to bed every night, to tuck their children into bed

and wonder if the next morning will be another october? or the report there are unconfirmed reports tonight, larry, hamas is weighing the release of 50 others who stages, dual nationals. those are unconfirmed reports. john kirby at the white house 10 americans remain unaccounted for. some are being held by gaza, by hamas in gaza. larry? larry: how do you read the release of hostages? god bless them. everyone wants release of hostages. is hamas playing us? is hamas stalling for time? how do you read this? >> reporter: certainly feels that way, larry. both women are in the 80s. appears not in the best of health this appears from hamas's standpoint a little bit of goodwill, no question trying to delay this anticipated israeli ground assault. larry: they have not released any u.s. hostages, no american hostages?

>> reporter: correct and french president emmanuel macron comes here to israel on tuesday. there is a number of french israeli hostages being held and certainly there is some pressure not just from the whitehouse but also from european governments on israeli government not to launch the assault with all the hostages being held in gaza. larry: got it. lucas tomlinson, thank you for the report. please be safe. president joe biden deserves credit, i have given him credit several times for his strong support of israel. his rhetoric has been solid. he wants a budget funding deal to replane issues rail iron dome and other military needs but now in the beginning of the third week of this crisis the big question has joe biden gone wobbly? the air is filled with rumors biden is holding back the idf ground invasion. questions of biden's team is negotiating some kind of temporary cease-fire for hostages. take a listen to this biden statement just a few moments

ago. president biden: should have a cease-fire if not aziz fire we should have -- then we can talk. larry: let me get this right, the president is saying we should have the hostages released, we can talk. talk? talk about what? we should have had the hostage release and then the idf annihilate hamas, or, much better in my view we should have the idf annihilate hamas and then hamas would release the hostages under pressure. that would be a sign of strength. that is what a reagan would do. that is what a trump would do. bomb first to show strength and respond to what the barbaric terrorists already have done. remember trump bombed syria while he and china president xi were having chocolate cake at dessert. sent a message.

trump took out sewell main any and iran whimpered. listen to john kirby. >> we know iran continues to support hamas and hezbollah and which know iran is closely monitoring these events and in some cases actively spurring attacks and spurring on others who may want to exploit the conflict for their own good and that of iran. we know iran's role is to maintain some level of deniability here. we'll not allow them to do that. larry: okay, mr. kirby, you fingered iran. show us how you're not going to allow all of that to happen? what exactly is the biden administration going to do about iran? iran is the financeer, the puppeteer for the hamas barbarians and near cousins, hezbollah and all the other terrorist groups in the middle east. mr. kirby and secretary of state antony blinken have acknowledged finally iran ask a problem but they're note doing anything about this problem and incidentally the iranian puppets are attacking the united states

military in iraq, in sir what, and they're attacking other navy. fortunately our military stopped them, shoot down the drones and cruise missiles but this is war against the united states and hamas has killed over 30 americans and taken 10 or a dozen hostages. these are acts of war! so, where exactly is joe biden's so-called red line? when will the u.s. strike back? when will president biden stop appeasing iran and start some deterrents against iran? when, pray tell? at a minimum the u.s. should be interdicting and impounding all iranian ships that carry oil or drones or whatever. draw a red line line on the sanctions. close any iranian banks with access to the west. stop iranian business

activities. sink iranian naval boats if need be. right now president biden is undermining his own support for israel and the catastrophe of october 7th. words, meaningless. actions, everything. stop appeasing iran and start deterring them from their evil doing ways. well, i just don't get it. all this talk, talk, talk, sees fire, cease-fire, cease-fire. really? with us to talk about all of this, john ratcliffe knows a thing or two, former national director of intelligence, former texas congressman. welcome back. i don't even understand what president biden was saying today. he wants a cease-fire and then we'll talk. he was asked the other day, it was a presser as he was getting on the airplane, are you holding back the idf ground invasion, he wanted to wait, he said yes, the white house then walked it back. john ratcliffe, this is a war,

including iran and its puppets are attacking americans, our embassy, our ships at sea. this is war. they took americans hostage, they killed americans. when will there be some fight back from biden? >> well, larry you know you made me listen to john kirby, a press conference a little while ago, it sounded like he was reading from some instructions shun manuel about all the things irran was doing to help amass and hezbollah and as you correctly pointed out you know, 1300 israelis, 1400 israelis were killed but 32 americans now and, so that your viewers understand, the americans weren't killed in some kinder or gentler manner. americans were beheaded. americans were raped. americans were stabbed, shot. all of that has taken place and there is no outrage to this administration and you know i

will quibble with the great larry kudlow you have given credit but given too much credit to the biden administration what they have done the last 2 1/2 weeks. larry i'm not focusing on the last 2 1/2 weeks, i'm concerned about the last 2 1/2 years. a guy should only get so much credit for a fire he started. this goes to the heart of the failure of this iranian policy for 2 1/2 years that really created the circumstances on the ground. larry, these things weren't happening when you and i were in the white house. they weren't happening when donald trump was there because iran couldn't afford to do these things. iran was broke. therefore hamas was broke and hezbollah was broke. they weren't planning these operations and that's not my opinion, larry. that's what our own intercepted communications about what the iranians were telling each other. that is also what foreign exchange reserves were reflecting about iranian assets. so all of this has taken place because of the reversal by the

biden administration 2 1/2 years ago and you know, to your point about the cease-fire, larry, the very first statement, the first tweet that came out of this administration was by antony blinken on october 7th, calling for a cease-fire which he then later with drew. the first pete put out by any agency within the biden administration was the u.s. administration on palestinian affairs which called for a cease-fire. joe biden has made comments about you know, a cease-fire and then they have had to walk it back or explain that he misheard the question. they have had a schizophrenic policy here. the reason, larry they're so concerned if this thing escalates the inevitable analysis is how did this happen and how was iran able to orchestrate what might become a regional war or even a world war and the answer is going to be because of biden's policies towards iran for the last 2 1/2 years. larry: the inconvenient fact, as

you say, i will stand partially corrected. i mean some statements are better than no statements but the big picture you're 100% right. the inconvenient fact is that biden has appeased iran and iran is unappeasable and this has been more appeasement and no action and so the sanctions have basically been lifted no matter what they say. so i'm saying to you, john ratcliffe, if biden were serious, let's take kirby, kirby is reading this as you say this manuel, somebody gave him a statement so they want to sound tough. like the first acknowledgement i really heard that iran is puppeteer, financeer, et cetera, et cetera but they will not do anything about it. mitch mcconnell, not the biggest right wing hawk in the group, mitch mcconnell wrote in the "the wall street journal" last week, i quoted him, gave him credit, look we should be interdicting or impounding iranian ships that are carrying oil to china and lord knows

where that are carrying drones to russia, that are developing the oil revenues and the foreign exchange reserves that you just cited a moment ago, a point i made many times, we should be impounding this right now, right now because we are now saying iran is behind this. what are we going to do about it? let's go back -- i mean you got senators saying this on both sides of the aisle, so where's the administration? >> well, larry, you know, as you know further sanctions dropped this week. u.n. security council resolution against iran's ability to test ballistic missiles, to trade ballistic missiles, to develop nuclear defense systems and offensive systems were all allowed to lapse by the united states and they had the ability to stop that. they had the ability to call for a snap-back of that and they didn't do it because the stated

reason is there is a fear of escalation. they're afraid of iran. you're right, what worked in the biden administration, what worked in the trump administration can work in the biden administration. it was a combination of lethal force taken against the likes of the, their top general quassem soleimani, coupled with crippling sanctions, that you, larry kudlow helped develop and implement and that made iran poorer, weaker, less influential and less capable of things they're doing right now. the biden, it is just a disaster. i didn't think there could be a worst h worse policy than their afghanistan policy but their iran policy is worse and it caused more damage. they could reverse that, they should reverse that. they should admit they made a mistake. much as jimmy carter admitted he made a mistake with russia and afghanistan, they should admit they made a mistake. they were wrong about iran. they can't be trusted.

they are as evil as everyone said they were and we'll take actions to debilitate them and their influence in the region and they could do that and we would all support them and cheer them on but there is no sign that's coming. larry: you know, look, mnuchin and and i others, mnuchin and i plenty of meetings, o'brien in these meetings advised president trump, then president trump to keep iran out of the world banking system. you keep them off the so-called dollar wire, okay? you know a little bit about this. there is a federal reserve wire, there is a clearinghouse bank wire, keep them oaf the wire. that means any third country you can make a deal with them but you can't pay for it. guess what, commerce dried up. guess what? the shipments stopped. guess what? since nobody could pay for it, nobody to insure it, nobody could transact it, they went broke. they went essentially broke. they had a couple of billion dollars of foreign exchanges. trump okayed that and we did

implement it. i want to ask you about this, your point, last wednesday the expiration of the sanctions on the ballistic missiles to iran, mr. blinken, secretary of state blinken puts out this whole rig a ma role, the united states commitment toe counter iranian development. goes through interdictions we went let them do this and won't let them do that. we didn't do a formal u.n., we dent get a resolution of security council resolution 2231. i don't know whether the snap-back was wore the paper it was printed on. they didn't implement it. they could have done that. i'm just saying, john. i don't understand this. i didn't understand blinken's statement, everybody is criticizing it because it didn't get the security council resolution snapped back. >> they should have snapped back because what they had was the

international community condemming and prohibiting iran from doing these things and now you know, the u.s. has put its own sanctions on against certain individuals but they have lost the international community and really what they should -- this is an opportunity, larry, it wasn't just americans that was killed t was brits it was french, there were all sorts of people that were butchered by hamas and this would be the time to say you know what? iran was behind this woe blame iran for this. they are not eligible to become a member of the nuclear community period, end of story and the international community is unified in taking whatever steps are necessary against iran's nuclear program to do that and they're just, just whiffing on that opportunity. larry: or the world financial community. or the world business community. in other words, shut their water off! we can do that. we did that for heaven's sakes! trump did that! people may mock him, yell at him, this and that at him he did

that. iran they were whimpering for god's sakes. soleimani was killed. what did iran do about it? nothing. why? because they didn't have any resources. anyway i got to get out. i'm so fired up. i just hate it when an administration fails to admit what are clear facts to any observers, okay? i know i'm a republican. i know i worked for donald trump. so did you but there certain factoids, you can't make up your own factoids, john ratcliffe, you know what i mean? you just can't make that up. the country knows that. >> always put, always put our national security posture above politics and that is not happen being right now. larry: all right. john ratcliffe the best of the best. thank you, sir. great to see you. all right, folks coming up on "kudlow," president biden wants 105 billion-dollar supplemental to link aid to israel and ukraine. got taiwan in there. got the southern border in there, i don't know, we'll have to talk about this too.

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♪. larry: all right continuing our theme tonight will joe biden ever end iranian appeasement and start a new policy of iranian deterrents? joining us now to talk about it, senator eric schmitt from missouri. senator schmidt, as always welcome back. speaking of iranian appeasement, here is john kirby, the the bidn spokesman, here he is today, you will love this. please take a listen. >> we certainly share concerns about any diversion of humanitarian assistance for hamas purposes. we have seen no indications as of today that any of the trucks karine talked about, any material in the trucks have been deterred by hamas or absconded by hamas. larry: senator schmitt, they are a swell bunch of people those folk and wouldn't get involved in swiping these materials. senator schmitt, how can the bidens be so naive to make a

statement like that? where they are by the way, as you know this is a history of hamas stealing humanitarian aid and working hand-in-glove with u.n. sympathizers. i'm not making this up, they are facts. how can they do this? >> well, larry they can't admit they have been wrong, it actually goes deeper than the biden administration. barack obama is still the center of gravity in the democratic party. joe biden wouldn't be president without barack obama cutting a deal with bernie sanders. all the obama people are part of biden's world. this playing footsie with iran and the iranian nuclear deal. president bam sent out pallets of cash. president trump came in. he cut all of that. iran was broke. hamas was broke. abraham accords and peace in the middle east. and joe biden's obsession with iran took over. $6 billion that was to go be

released recently. they're not enforcing any of the oil sanctions. they could be doing that right now. iran is flush with cash. which means hamas is flush with cash. joe biden came in released $300 million of palestinian authority when he came in. that was all cut off during the trump administration. what does that mean? they have a lot of money to do terrible things. they can't admit they have been wrong. we've seen this play out in the most horrific way in the last couple of weeks. that is the heart of it. this is the core of obama, now bide policy and it failed miserably. larry: not but, but i want to say, iran backing hamas, calling the shots, backing hezbollah, look, they have killed 30 something americans. john ratcliffe was just describing it. these were horrific killings. they have taken a bunch of americans hostage along with the israeli hostages, i understand that, but they have killed americans. they have killed, they have taken us hostage. they are shooting at our naval

ships. they are shooting at our embassy in iraq. houthis, another iranian puppet is shooting at us. fortunately the navy is shooting back and we're putting more and more ships and readying military personnel and support but, senator, these are acts of war and i don't hear any of that from biden, i mean biden, kirby, whatever, blinken, these are acts of war against the united states. if americans were shot, killed, what would ronald reagan say? i don't think he would say it is time to have a cease fire. what would donald trump say? i don't think he would say it is time to have a cease-fire. hell, you remember, trump bombed the syrian airport while he was having chocolate cake dessert with president xi. does that send a message while they're having dessert at mar-a-lago? i think it sends a message. trump killed soleimani and note a whimper out of iran because

they were broke. you will the whole situation is out of control. they declared war on us but we don't, we don't even see it, the bidens. >> they respect powers that is about it. there is a fundamental miscalculation that biden made, obama made, if you release money ask them to play nice they would somehow obey the rules we expect them to. that is not how it works. we seen that play out tragically. missed opportunity last week when joe biden addressed the nation in the oval office what i should say any attack on americans or american interests by any of these proxies will consider it a attack by iran itself. that is our red line. you need that clarity. he didn't have it. he did not have it at all. there is big difference with iran telling their proxies don't do this, versus them not saying anything. there is a big difference with that. now my concern is iran can have

plausible deniability. the biden administration has not been tough enough on iran. they're trying to confirm jack lew to be the ambassador to israel, larry. he was an architect to the iran deal. united states ambassador to the country under assault by iran and its proxy we want to send a iran sympathizer to there i'm noting voting on that. one other point i before i lose you, spot on that. i wrote on that oval office speech. with respect to the 105 billion-dollar funding bill. amen to is israel. i have a problem linking irrail and ukraine. i have a bigger problem, senator mcconnell said this on one of the news shows, i think it was shannon bream, what about the southern border? by the way there are potential

terrorists coming up through the southern border as you well know. the rest of it has just been a catastrophe anyway. we need money for the southern border, china put it all in one package, $800 million would go to more babysitters, not law enforcement at the southern border but babysitting? >> yeah. that is exactly why these different aid packages need to be considered separately. there are different realities on the ground, there are different objectives, there are different likelihoods of success, there are different relationships we have, there are different levels of trust, the money is actually towing to the right place, there are all kind of variables to every unique situation. iran has gotten $112 billion already, nobody can articulate what victory looks like. they're in protracted war with russia. israel has very clear objectives here. they need some level of support. that should be considered differently. by the way the southern border should be considered differently. color me skeptical that the biden administration could be trusted with just money to do the right thing.

i can speak with some experience when i was attorney general in missouri we litigated the biden administration when they didn't build the wall, they paid contractors to not build the wall. there was court order for remain in mexico. we had contempt motions in place. title 42. i don't trust joe biden on the border. that is actually beside the point. we have to different debate separately because there are different considerations. larry: i get it, senator schmitt i'm having a hard break. thank you so much for coming on and your views. the u.s. under attack in the middle east. when will the bidens start fighting back, all right? former defense department official eldridge colby is coming on to talk about this. some biden family check kiting with oversight chair james comer. this check kiting story is wild.

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larry: welcome back, folks. let's go to straight to fox news chief international core sponged dent, steve harrigan with the latest. what can you tell us. >> reporter: more strikes by israel into southern lebanon. they say they were targeting hezbollah positions where they were firing antitank missiles into multiple locations in israel. israeli spokesman said the situation with hezbollah is escalating steadily. meanwhile the security situation across the lobe none is deteriorating. the embassy is warning americans to get out immediately, offering loans to americans for flights out as long as flights are available. they are saying israel evacuate communities near its north border with lebanon. 50,000 civilians pulled out. many saying dealing with the uncertainty of what's next is very difficult. >> i'm taking my whole family.

myself, my wife, three children, my dog. won't leave my dog, for how long? i don't know. it's, until things will settle down here in this area. >> reporter: israel's goal is to try to create a two mile buffer seen to get civilians away to that border with lebanon. larry, back to you. larry: steve, i know it is a generic question and somewhat unfair but you have a lot of experience. does it feel in your gut, does it feel to you like a two-front war, hezbollah in the north, hamas in the south, is more likely today than it was a week ago? >> reporter: i don't see an off-ramp. i think this is a slow motion car crash which is coming. if israel goes into gaza like everyone expects they will, the pressure on hezbollah to open up a second front will be unstoppable. and we're going to see destruction behind me.

larry: all right. i was afraid of that but, steve harrigan, thank you very much for your appraisal. we appreciate it. talk soon, be safe please, sir. all right, folks, joining us now, eldridge colby former deputy assistant secretary of defense, author of, the strategy of denial, american defense in an age of great power conflict. boy, talk about denial, eldridge, welcome to the show. you heard me talking to steve harrigan, looks more like a two-front war. you're a defense strategist in the dod what do you think. >> good to be with you, larry, i can't quibble too much on what the correspondent said. a multifront war is every strategist's nightmare but you have to be prepared for the possibility. obviously both jerusalem and washington have been messaging iran and hezbollah itself to avoid that outcome but we certainly have to be prepared. larry: look it, as a strong supporter of israel, i must say

i worry about a two-front war and i hear that israel hi people and i know that prime minister netanyahu was up on the northern border yesterday exhorting the troops but it's not going to be easy. i mean what's your honest appraisal of this? how can israel actually get this done? >> well, thanks and i'm a strong supporter of israel as well. look i think the main thing to focus on the need to destroy deterrents vis-a-vis hamas. we can see support for israeli pending move into gaza. the defense minter was saying potentially months, to go go into gaza to dismantle the hamas infrastructure and punish in the most visceral way possible to punish for the worst barbarities to happen to the jewish people since the holocaust. in the north i'm not so fatalistic as yet as the

correspondent. i think neither iran or hezbollah is full by bought into escalating f you're thinking about a two front problem, the right time for hezbollah to gone in before the idf could mobilize. now the idf is mobilized in the north. they lost the element of surprise. that gives me some hope. the bigger thing, multifront problem no one benefits more about this than china which is our primary enemy and has to remain our primary rival. if we get enmeshed in a middle east war in addition to supporting the ukrainians we're in real trouble. xi xinping and china are actively preparing for conflict with the united states. we have don't know whether it will happen but it is quacking like a duck. larry: last one, i got a quick sound from secretary of state antony blinken on military troops. take a listen to this, please. >> we expect that there's a likelihood of escalation, escalation by iranian proxies directed against our forces,

directed against our personnel. we are taking steps to make sure that we can effectively defend our people and respond decisively if we need to. this is not what we want, not what we're looking fore. larry: i mean, i don't know, this is not what we want, not what we're looking for, this is like defeatism. i have mean americans have been killed, hostages have been taken, these iranian you know, puppets, terrorist puppets are shooting at our naval ships, they're shooting at our embassy in iraq, we all know about this. blinken finally got around to acknowledging it. what is he talking about, eldridge? >> the thing is that is so strange here, larry, like you talking to john ratcliffe and senator schmitt, i judge our foreign policy like any real policy by its results. president trump end of its administration no, new wars, iran in its corner. similar with secretary reagan.

he is passively, hopefully saying we don't want this to happen. now we get news president biden is planning toe run for re-election on the basis he is a foreign policy leader. usually you run on either we kept the peace or victory. instead what we're getting a major war in europe, potential outbreak after second major war in the middle east and impending possible major war, the most consequential of them all in asia. what we need to see are some more results and less sort of dreamy aspiration for peace. larry: dreamy aspiration for peace, he will bridge, you put your finger on it. that is a nice turn by the way. thank you ever so much for coming on the show. we appreciate it. >> thank you. larry: all right folks we'll switch gears a little bit, joining us now chairman james comer, head of the house oversight committee. mr. chairman, thank you, i just couldn't, i know there is a lot to talk about but this business you've uncovered i'm calling it check kiting. that may be unfair but i'm not

sure it is unfair. you have a bankrupt company loaning james biden at least a couple hundred thousand dollars, if not more over the years and then this james biden write as check to his brother, joe biden. i mean i don't know what you call it if not check kiting but it puts the lie to the biden defense he didn't know anything about the family business or whatever the family business is. so, mr. chairman, what do you make of this? >> well we just proved that joe biden benefited from his family's influence peddling scheme. look, this check that joe biden, that jim biden wrote to joe biden came on the same day he received a 200,000-dollar loan from a company that was on the verge of bankruptcy and today is bankrupt. on the check to joe biden his brother put loan repayment. now the white house is saying that joe biden loaned his brother money.

i don't believe he did, larry, but whatever. let's say they pull something out of their rear end that says joe biden loaned jim biden money, either way jim biden, we have his personal bank records i can say with confidence had no money to pay joe biden back other than that 200,000-dollar wire that came from americorps health company. so either joe biden got paid directly $200,000 from his brother as part of a kickback or a cut from the influence peddling scheme, or, joe biden did loan his brother money but his brother couldn't have paid it back without the influence peddling scheme. there are bankruptcy court documents that spell meticulously exactly what jim biden do receive that money. he went to americorps health, knowing they were in bad financial space, if you pay me money i can use my brother's contacts the middle east to get you all the capital you need to

make you solvent again. that is called influence peddling. that is what we proved joe biden benefited. he either made $200,000 or he didn't lose $200,000, either way he is $200,000 ahead because of influence peddling scheme. larry: that is a nice piece of work. this is the influence peddling you've been talking about for months and months in your committee hearing. this is it in spades, in clear black and white for a check. chairman comer, i want you to go back in action, this is iranian spies or cutouts in the defense department. we don't have time to go through all of that, one thing i need a republican speaker of the house, mr. chairman. you have to give me one, so you can go back to work. >> i hear you. larry: you and everybody else in the house majority can go back to work. what is happening today, they're meeting today, voting today or what? >> we're meeting today, obviously we're not voting i would have a suit on. we're not like fetterman you

have to have a suit and tie on to go on the house floor. we've wasted three weeks. this was a dumb move because of eight members of congress. many are on my committee. i like at least six of the ate. they had at the end of day had no plan. they had no plan this could stretch out another two or three weeks. limiting the ability of committees to meet, but my committee to do subpoenas, things like that. this isn't being productive. we got started a month late with subpoena power. i didn't get subpoena power basically february the 1st because we went through all of this in january with the speakers race. this is unfortunate. i'm ashamed that we're in this position. hopefully we'll find someone that can get 217 votes soon. larry: jamie, everybody loves you. everybody respects you. i'm not kidding. in the last year you've been chairman of this committee. i have not one, i have not heard one peep against you, not one

peep. >> you don't watch msnbc oar cnn larry. larry: that is true. unquestionably that is true. that is why i remain at a relatively high level of competence. anyway, chairman comer we appreciate it. good luck on the speaker. good luck on the investigations. folks coming back to business, we got hamas has killed americans. hamas has taken americans hostage. iran is behind it all. these are acts of war. when will joe biden fight back? we'll talk about it with senator ron johnson, on the homeland security committee. used to be the chairman. mr. johnson will be here. i'm kudlow. please stick around. your best defense against erosion and cavities is strong enamel- nothing beats it.

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larry: joining me our great friend senator ron johnson homeland security committee. welcome, senator johnson, if you would, take a listen last friday former national security advisor robert o'brien said this. >> this is one of the biggest attacks on americans we've ever seen. 30 dead. 15 held hostage. the message to hamas, every american should be released. not a hair on their head should be harmed or violated and look, you will pay a significant penalty for attacking americans.

larry: senator, johnson, you know, it was a terrorist attack on americans. yes israelis god forbid but americans, also. and the biden administration has basically done nothing about it. they're talking about peace talks, temporary peace talks, cease-fires and god knows what. and there is no penalty on iran. so i want to give you a chance to talk about that, because not enough people have -- this was an attack on americans and they continue to attack americans. >> well, larry, if you go back to the iraq war, iran was responsible for killing hundreds of americans with ieds, what happened? obama came into office, started negotiation to keep them from getting nuclear weapons and funneled more than $100 billion into the largest state sponsor of terror. this has been a recurring problem with democrat administrations who want a appease iran, try to buy off, hopefully change their behavior. it only emboldened them, only changed their behavior for the

worse and of course every action this administration has done weakened this country. open border, 40 year high inflation, embarrassing of fossil fuels, ayatollahs and president xi. this is a disaster this is democrat governance showing exactly what it results in. larry: president biden himself, there is talk, rumors about a temporary cease-fire. he said today he gave a, it was kind of hard to figure out but he seemed to indicate a temporary cease-fire or cease-fire first and hen hostage -- i don't understand it. these are not warriors, senator johnson, you know what i mean? these are not america first warriors. >> larry obama's secretary of defense, robert o'brien, i mean, his secretary of defense, said that joe biden has been wrong on every major foreign policy decision for the last 40 years. he said the exact same advisors that record continues. larry: yes, sir.

>> robert gates. larry: it was bob gates. senator johnson, thank you, sirr we appreciate your time very hey david. connect with an advisor muchlize.larra rhode islander i,

we need larry: bring back donald trump is they've america. that's my view. liz macdonald up next. she's going to save america too. she always does. elizabeth: thank you, larry. we'll see you in a bit. you'll be up in the first half of the show. we've got a lot to