stuart: what a day it has been. i want to repeat the news from the senate, second ballot to decide who leaves the majority party. rick scott is out of. it down to john cornyn of texas and john thune of south dakota. we saw donald trump arrived at andrews air force base, joint base andrews as it is called these days, made his way to the hyatt regency hotel where he met white house republicans, appear to to get some unity, behind speaker johnson one hundred%. he brought elon musk with him who got a standing ovation. the president-elect, met with president biden, appears to be relatively cordial. the meeting continues and that is where we stand, we are waiting for him to answer questions. time is up for us. neil, it's yours. neil: we are looking at the

same thing you are, the white house, the possibility donald trump will come to the microphone. unlikely but we are monitoring it the same, prior times when winning candidates come to the white house they never talk to the press afterwards but hope springs eternal. i want to take you to the senate where behind that door you are looking at republicans gathering, all 53 of them, 27 votes to determine their next leader. senator rick scott of florida finished third. he's out. the battle is being decided between john thune of south dakota and john cornyn of texas. to get a simple majority of the number of republicans coming into the new senate with 53 coming in, you need 27 votes, none got it on the first shot.

rick scott got the least votes. he's out, the battle between john and john cornyn. a market that is up 162 points. a lot of developments. edward lawrence is there with more. >> reporter: the meeting is not only the president-elect but the chief of staff, susie wiles in the meeting, going on for 54 minutes. we did see smiles when the cameras were in their. i want to show you what happened inside and look at the facial expressions. >> it is tough, not a nice world but it is a nice world today and i appreciate it. it is as smooth as it can get and i appreciate it.

>> the second meeting for donald trump today, earlier he spoke about the trump agenda and that includes expanding the tax cuts which expire in 2025, repeal the mandates, the inflation reduction act and clawback the money he has seen on the green agenda, the president-elect wants congress to help businesses move back to the us by lowering the tax rate to 50%. only for companies manufacturing product in the united states, this might be why the market is looking forward to what could happen. you may remember some of the comments during the campaign. listen to this. >> donald trump is an ex-essential threat to our democracy and our most fund mental freedoms. >> president biden: a genuine danger to american security. >> we are fighting for democracy. >> a genuine threat to our democracy.

that's not hyperbole, that is god's truth. >> reporter: a different reception, interesting to see if we get an inkling of what happened after the cameras left the meeting and if president-elect trump will speak we will let you know. neil: as edward was wrapping up we got confirmation that john thune will be the senate majority leader because republicans have now taken control of the senate will next year. we don't have final vote tallies but he got a 27 needed to make that happen so john thune of south dakota will be republican leader. the former chief of staff for george w. bush, he played a role with the secretary of transportation under george hw bush so he knows a thing or two about

administrations the come and go, some handled flawlessly and others with tension. great to see you. thank you. >> thank you. this is an important day for americans democracy and i'm grateful to president biden for hosting donald trump. it's a good signal to send to the american people and to the world. stuart: neil: people remembered donald trump four years ago did not afford the same kindness to joe biden. obviously that did not affect his getting this big election win but we return to form here. these institutional things that are very important to president biden and the fact that donald trump went, important to him as well. how do you think it went? >> i think it went well. again, it's important for the world to see that america can have a transition of power respectfully.

and demonstrate democracy is the best form of government, we have to polish our democracy and we are during this process so i like that the president of the united states invited the incoming president to the oval office and it appears they have a cordial and respectful conversation, we don't know really what they talked about entirely but i suspect that it was one that recognizes the sanctity of the oval office and that unique part of the capital and the white house and the important role in helping people come together and find common ground to govern. so this is a reflection on the institutions of our government and our founding fathers phenomenal government and our institutions and what it means to be a democracy. madison: to you can't give away secrets at the steel pipe of events, you were there, certainly familiar when george w. bush met with barack obama

after he had won in 2,008, we are in the middle of a financial meltdown at the time. the republicans had lost control of the white house. there must be a bit of even though george w. bush wasn't on the ticket, john mccain had just lost. there's got to be, it's hard for the party that's coming out of power, isn't it? >> it's very hard. even if they don't leave by force, just leaving the office, you want to do it respectfully and i respect the way president biden is leaving office which i respect to the way donald trump is coming into the office. i want them to treat the oval office as a special place. in a visiting dignitary or luminaries excited to go to the oval office, we want that always to be the case. i watched people be angry outside before they entered the

oval office and then friendly and part of the solution after they got into the office and see what it was like so the oval office is a special place and i was pleased president biden invited the president-elect to come. donald trump knows that office well but it is good that they treat the office with respect that it has earned over the millennia of our democracy. jack: questions including that fire in the oval office, that was like a blast furnace which i don't know if they put too many alarms on it but you could hear how loud it was. who is in charge of that? did someone have the bright idea right before hearing these guys speak, really like this -- >> what the photograph would look like, that was a fire that -- i've been in the oval office many times when they had a fire in the fireplace, it doesn't surprise me. it helps to demonstrate hopefully the warming of relationships between people who are adversaries.

neil: i am curious too what you make, it's a very different washington donald trump is returning to than it was four years ago or even 8 years ago, he won convincingly, won the battleground states, big electoral vote edge. he has made inroads no republican has made in decades and i'm wondering, it's not only his party. you have a sense, washington dc is his town. >> this is a very different time, probably the most unique time for our democracy where we had the transition of power that was so complete. i was surprised at the popular vote went the way it did. overwhelmingly for trump. and i knew he was going to win the electoral college.

i was impressed at the nature of the campaign and how they did it. i want to say this is an opportunity to demonstrate republicans can lead, the obligations of the senate to do the right thing and the house to do the right thing is very important. donald trump will be guiding that. i hope the institutions of our democracy will respect their institutions they are in. the senate has picked a new majority leader and that will be very important, the house is going to be organized and those two institutions are just as needy for democracy to be polished as the white house is so this is a time to reflect on the institutions of our democracy because we the american people and people all around the world look to see what's happening in washington dc. it's not just the personalities but also how those institutions of government do their job and

recognize the complicated challenge of representing all of the people all of the time in this great democracy. neil: i didn't mean to interrupt you but this is outside the senate chamber where we are getting the you vote the just happened among those 53 republicans who will now make up the majority of the united states senate, they were casting votes to see who would lead them and in the end it is john thune of south dakota. interesting development here because there had been talk that donald trump certainly his family preferred rick scott of florida but that didn't seem to go anywhere. we do know a little bit about the first ballot where thune got 23 votes, he needed 27, john cornyn of texas got 15, scott. 13, three more than he got the last go around he was trying to unseat mitch mcconnell as republican leader and those two battle it off, we don't have a final count but we know john

thune got at least a 27 votes, he is their new leader. what do you think of that choice? >> again, i respect the institution of the united states senate and i'm confident members of the republican caucus took their votes seriously, in the secret ballot effort and i congratulate senator thune. i think he will be a strong and good leader for the republican party in the senate but it is important to the institution of the senate to demonstrate that it is separate from the white house. it's not an arm of the white house, they have their own responsibilities and i say the same about the house of representatives, when congress meets they are an institution that has to participate, get closest to the people, the senate is the next closest to the people, the president represent all the people. the institutions being now led by republicans, it is important we polish these institutions as they do their job and i hope

the president and the majority leader in the senate and the speaker of the house will recognize that they are there to do a job, not just important to the people in the united states but a reflection on what it means to be a democracy around the world. we are still the greatest country in the world and we want to demonstrate that. it is my hope there's respect for the institutions by the people in those institutions and i'm confident that they will be. neil: great catching up with you. former chief of staff of george w. bush,. -- played a crucial role in the george hw admin a station as well. reporters are awaiting a chance to see the new senate leader, republicans flipped that body gaining 53 seats there. three republicans were competing for the right to lead them, the winner is senator john thune. getting some of that closure might have helped greece, increase buying at the corner

of wall and broad. the wall street abhors uncertainty, we have certainty with the leader of the senate, the certainty of a meeting that seemed to go well between president biden and donald trump. wouldn't assign much importance to at this stage of the game. let's go to chad pergram on how the second vote went. >> reporter: as you say we have a new senate majority leader, john thune, republican from south dakota. this went to a second ballot. there were three candidates in this race, john thune, john cornyn and rick scott. the issue is the winner had to get a supermajority, had to get an outright majority of all 53 republicans casting ballots. magic number was 27. i should note incoming senators elect were in this meeting and j.d. vance was in this meeting, we don't know everyone cast

their ballots but what happened is john thune did not get to the magic number of 27. he was a couple votes ahead of john cornyn and rick scott came in with 13 votes for the republican conference rules, the third-place vote-getter drops out. this boiled down to a two day race between john cornyn and john thune, john thune prevail. he's the second leader in the senate from south dakota. he came to the senate in 2004 after beating tom daschle, the democratic leader, majority leader and minority leader. john cornyn had served as majority whip. right now john thune was the minority whip and there was a certain group of senate republicans who wanted to break from the current leadership team. rick scott ran for the senate leadership post two years ago against mitch mcconnell. he only got ten vote to their but he ran again, did a little better. it wasn't enough to beat john

thune. a lot of people talked about why one candidate or the other might prevail in this. it was generally believed john thune had done the most work, raised a lot of money, done a lot of campaigning and also had the best relationships. what will hill his relationship be with donald trump. there was a point they were not on the same page by any stretch back in 2016 after the access hollywood tape, thune asked donald trump, then candidate trump to drop off the ballot. after the second impeachment trial in early 2020 one after the capital riot, he voted to acquit, john thune did but he said he thought he tried to subvert democracy but since that time, he and the president elect have patched things up. you have this meeting close to the capital this morning between president-elect trump, house speaker mike johnson a dollhouse republicans.

we thought there might be a meeting with the new leader whoever that was going to be and donald trump, we don't think that's going to happen at some point today. it might happen later this weekend we do expect to hear from the new leadership team later this afternoon. they have a couple of other races of their down ballot to parse out and that is something they will continue to do as they debate these candidacies for lower tier leadership positions in the side the old senate chamber. and i should note this. we might not definitively know who voted for who. the reason, it is a secret ballot. some senators will come out and said this is who i voted for, others will play their cards close to their vest. neil: on that issue. do we know why donald trump stayed out of it? he's being advised, any of these guys could win and don't want to alienate the other two but we were told rick scott was

working for a team trump, do i have your backing for this so donald trump held back and that was probably the wisest strategy of all. >> there was risk in this for donald trump because if he supported one candidate and somebody else won we don't know if that would have tipped the scale because a lot of senators don't like to feel this pressure. there was a pressure campaign where trump eli -- elon musk supporting rick scott and people calling offices and doing things of that nature and when i talk to a couple republican senators after their leadership forum last night they said we don't like pressure, we like to sit and adjudicate these candidates and decide on our own and this is why it is so hard sometimes to read who gets into leadership. i remember being around this building when we thought eric cantor was going to be the next speaker of the house. paul ryan said he did not want to be speaker of the house and was speaker of the house two weeks later, nobody knew who mike johnson was in september 2023. it is hard to determine who

gets into leadership and when you have a competitive leadership race like this, we' ve not had one this close in the senate since 2,006 so this doesn't happen very often that you really have a barnburner on the leadership race especially in the senate. lauren: 20 we are waiting. maybe there's a possibility the three competitors for this position, john thune, the ultimate winner will speak to the press and other senators might discuss their votes as you are indicating. we do know a little more about the vote itself, it was 29 votes for john thune, 24 for cornyn and away we go. you were mentioning as well about the speaker race and how that's much closer and more contested convention when they've gone through that process repeatedly. mike johnson has a tenuous hold assuming republicans hold onto the house and he got a big, he is my guy from donald trump earlier today. what did you make of that?

>> we talked about trump not weighing in on the senate leadership race but he did weigh in with mike johnson, there are factions of house republicans who oppose mike johnson. there was talk that they are going to have their leadership elections in the house of representatives among the republicans and i asked mike johnson yesterday do you think we are past this drama, motions to vacate the chair and so and and he said yes, where unified, don't think that's going to be a problem and some conservative talk about trying to have somebody run against mike johnson, that never materialized. keep in mind even if they had that vote today mike johnson needed a pretty low threshold, you only need to win in a conference. if you have 211 seats in the new house majority that is probably ballpark where they will be, you only need half plus 1 of that. you need to win on the floor in january and that was always the

problem for speakers candidates, that's why you didn't have speaker jordan, speaker scalise, speaker amer and they landed on mike johnson because he finally got the outright majority. it's a little different in the house because the entire body has to vote for speaker of the house, that's the constitutional office of this branch of government, the senate majority leader, minority leader, is up to the parties and there was no such thing as senate majority leader until 1914-fifteen. it was a body of equals, why would you have somebody stand out among the others? neil: i use to joke take your time, every one can take turns being speaker at the rate it was going. thank you, great reporting. we might be hearing from senators involved today and those who were part of that voting, the three candidates themselves or, john thune the ultimate winner.

i want to go to the advisory, what this market has been doing, going up up up, yesterday notwithstanding, because they like the agenda that has been laid out, big task cuts, voter regulations, seems to be kumbaya amongst republicans, even those divided over the senate leadership battle to unite behind john thune who will support the trump agenda. i assume that's music to the ears of traders. >> reporter: it is. one of the things that's music to the ears of traders is that spending may be largely reined in because of a focus on not growing out the deficit. even as the announcement of vivek ramaswamy and elon musk talking about cost and what

that does, incrementally may be helpful and there may be guardrails in terms of spending and some of the tax initiatives and if rates stop backing up, rates come down we are in for a bigger rally. neil: some are fearing rates might back up as the economic activity that will no doubt come from big tax cuts could put pressure on prices and we might be in a whole different kettle here. what do you make of that? >> it could be offset. i don't know. it could be offset by pulling back regulatory constraints that held back some of the issues like a monday and necessary consolidation and pulling back the regulation that can fuel more growth and that would be great. if you have growth that offset

some of the tax cuts and some type of spending reduction that would be added to but we don't know. the lead runner for treasury secretary seems to be a deficit hawk as well as pulling back in favor of pulling back regulation, horrible regulation, that's a positive so as he gets further momentum behind being the pick, wall street, he is one of us so we are encouraged by that. neil: sorry for our truncated time with all this breaking news. very bullish. a lot of people were a little reluctant to pull the trigger on a lot more buying. that is the state of things now. we are waiting to hear from john thune who is now the

senate majority leader wants the whole body sworn in with 53 republicans in charge, the house not quite decided. it will be close, it probably as close as it has been over the last couple of years but mike johnson seems oddly secure in that position, got a big backing from donald trump earlier today. we are waiting to hear from john thune and some other players including john conyers of texas and rick scott of florida who seem to be a trump team favored until suddenly he wasn't. more after this.

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>> elon musk congratulate on x john thune single republican team is united behind donald trump's agenda and our work starts today. it was close, took two votes but john thune of south dakota with those 29 votes compared to john cornyn's 24 has established a leadership post and will lead republicans in the new republican senate. a little different from the house where you need a majority of all members to become the speaker of the house so getting to 218 can be a much more herculean task then it is in his newly configured senate where it takes 27 votes and he had a couple more than necessary, the read from hans nichols, what do you make of this?

>> the margin matters. it's a significant margin it shows john thune is going to be leading are united conference which he and john cornyn did not have many substantive differences. i don't want to see a beauty pageant a popularity contest but members like john thune. cornyn had backers too. he has a united conference. everyone is on the same page policywise. it is their job to translate donald trump's agenda into legislation he can sign. there may be rough spots around the edges and disagreements but broadly and directionally everyone is pointed in the same direction. neil: i think donald trump had wanted a quick yes or no, automatic approval from the now majority republican senate on his cabinet picks, supreme court picks down the road if they should come up but how is that being seen?

>> they vote, they were open to using recess appointments. i'm not entirely certain it's necessary if they move fast. remember a lot of times cabinet secretaries are all queued up, the new congress will convene january 3rd and inauguration is january 20th. that gives them 17 days. a lot of cabinet secretaries and crucial roles can be stacked up. if they don't have it done at that time it gets more interesting and will see if trump demands they go into recess and the house will have to go into recess too and you do the recess appointment but as we talked about yesterday if you are recess appointed you don't get paid. they may not need the money but most people like to get paid for the jobs they are doing. lauren: 20 how do you think it's going so far for donald trump. he's been clear and focused on moving quickly to get a cabinet

together and even some of the deputy cabinet positions that are is crucial to say nothing of thousands more appointees he has to make, certainly can't all get done before the inauguration but he could consume verbally have his cabinet in place, sworn in, ready to go the same day he started as president. that's materially different than we've seen before under almost any recent president. >> he is moving faster than he moved 8 years ago, moving faster depending how you count than bush did in 2,004. even obama in 2012. to me the broader picture is he has a firm sense of what he wants to do, the personnel he wants to have implementing his policies and has a plan to do it. you can look at speed in politics, sometimes it doesn't mean anything, here, i think it does, trump is moving quickly and i think that tells us something more broadly about

his overall agenda and his plans to execute it. neil: thanks for all of that. i've had the pleasure of talking to him several times this week and always enjoyed that. taking it right now to the white house, getting an update on how that biden/trump meeting went and also find out again on the senate side what's going on, waiting to hear from john thune, the new republican leader, the new senate leader, he will be in charge of shepherding these cabinet appointments through. ian pulte joins us now, pulte capital ceo. early on we have really unusual speed and organization finely tuned from donald trump and his team getting these positions filled, getting them approved, they hope, and fast. what do you make of it? >> it's very professional. he knew what he was doing last

time but he's a seasoned pro at this point, he didn't know anyone in washington, now he knows a lot of people and his cabinet will be filled with dynamic people. was fortunate to see him briefly last night and over the weekend, he looks youthful, he looks younger. he has clear vision it seems like and couple that with the mandate he got from the american people i really think a lot of good could be done by donald trump in the next term. neil: your name comes up of a possible coalition in a trump administration. housing and urban development. can you share anything? >> hud needs to be more efficient, getting resources to local areas and there's an opportunity for donald trump's freedom cities to be enacted and brought across the united states in particular the federal land the government owns, they own millions of acres worth of land.

a lot of people think of hud, just this all agency. it's the department of homes. the department of interior is the department of land, the federal government has all this land, so much opportunity to build homes. this is the first time we ever had a president whose a builder and donald trump can build on this federal land, increase supply and that will bring down home prices. we need to bring down home prices. we have a housing crisis and without drastic action it won't happen. neil: you were a builder too. your name was associated with his that. it would seem a perfect fit for you to run hud. >> i'm happy to help however he asks. plenty of great people around him. we will help anyway we can, donald trump knows what he needs to do in terms of building but as it relates to housing we have a housing crisis in this country and i think with the trump freedom cities everyone will want to

live in one of these cities i believe on this federal land and other land and if we incentivize local governments, if we can incentivize local governments to spend this money right instead of corruption and everything it has been spent on you would see a boom at the local level for housing starts. neil: that boom can lead to a backup in interest rates, already has a little bit, not exclusively because of this, just fears inflation isn't licked yet and we've seen the 10 year bond backup a little bit, concerns as well and number of big investment banks said they would backup even more, federal reserve might be stingy with rate cuts going forward. are you worried about that? >> as relates to interest rates, you like lower interest rates, everybody does. the housing crisis, it is one element. the big element is the supply issue. everybody's locked into mortgages, low mortgages so not only do you not have a lot of supply being built about this lock in effect, we need to

increase supply and that's what's exciting about donald trump's freedom cities. he wants to begin across tendencies, flying cars, things you would not have thought were realistic but when you combine trump a deal on these things start to happen if we get supply up and incentivize local areas and get rid of corruption i think you could make a huge impact and solve the housing crisis and donald trump can do it. neil: obviously he's moving fast on personnel and key people, maybe before the inauguration. i'm wondering from your perspective and the transition meeting with president biden today, john thune who had his run ins and criticisms of donald trump, everyone on the same page right now. it is donald trump's washington and everyone else just lives there. i'm wondering if that is going to be enough if it is still a tight house even if republicans control it, still tight, can he

exert that power away that he can keep his troops in line to get what he wants? >> i think he can. this was a guy who revolutionized television, revolutionized business, real estate, what he did in new york, he got in and his first term, second term i'm telling you there's a certain piece about him, this is one man's opinion, a certain piece about him, he seems to know and have a handle on what he's doing and as it relates to housing i think he's the first builder to be president but also the first president that i think has laid out a game plan for how to solve the housing problem. the other candidate he just beat was talking about giving stimulus basically entering 25 grand for homes, that solve the demand, pouring gasoline on the demand problem. we need to pour gasoline on increasing supply, good quality supply, lots of it is what is going to reduce home prices and that is why the united states need to be focused on.

lauren: 1 will follow closely, good catching up with you. ian pulte of pulte capital. could play a crucial role in this administration. we will see. we are still waiting to hear right now from john thune or any of the other key players why they voted for him of 29 senators who did that, 24 for john cornyn, rick scott did better than his last go round in 2,022 when he was trying to take out mitch mcconnell but got 10 votes then it in the first voted got 13 so there's a little progress. more after this. ♪

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the outgoing president never, in recent memory have they come out to talk to reporters afterwards but it could happen and that's why those reporters are waiting there. edward lawrence not far from where they are now. do we know what entrance donald trump came in. not through the north. did he come to the office building side, southside? >> reporter: he came in the south side in this outside of the white house through the portico on the south side so he did not come down the north side driveway. we are talking about that greeting, president biden was there but so was the first lady in the first lady handed a letter to donald trump for mrs. trump and in that letter it guaranteed a smooth transition saying the east wing of the white house would like to have a smooth transition and she promises that's what would happen. the scene here you don't get the flavor of the amount of people when you look at the screen in front of the west wing doors but there's almost, more than 500 journalists

waiting to see if donald trump will come out of those doors and talk to her media. we do know that in that meeting, not just president biden, donald trump but also the chief of staff, and the new incoming chief of staff susie wiles, they are netmeeting together, started 11:07 eastern time. coming up in two hours. the white house very tightlipped what was going to be discussed. if ukraine is discussed and policy going forward, if the middle east is going to be discussed, policy going forward as well as the economy and how he plans to turn it around quickly as he said he could. this meeting lasting and extremely long time at the white house and as you mentioned it is not customary for president to come out of the west wing doors and speak

to the media but we note donald trump does like to talk about things that are going on, how he's doing in the day and this is kind of his day at the white house so we will have to see if he comes out but in that meeting, the video you are looking at there, there were a lot of smiles. you could not see any contentiousness when the tooth two men meta-blooge donald trump liens over and gives a joke to president biden and he chuckles a little bit. doesn't seem like any lingering hard feelings but this is when the cameras were on. we will see what happens when the cameras are off. neil: i don't remember ever seeing a fire like that. that wasn't just put aflame on and see what happens, that was holy toledo, what was going on their? >> last winter we did see fires

raging like that and we were concerned, we talked about it openly downstairs in our offices could a spark come out and like the oval office on fire but that's a serious fire. i would like to know who did that because i've tried to do a fire like that at my house and it just peters out. i need to get their technique. neil: crisscross with the logs and all at stuff but that looks like something they were all the can of gas on and see what happens. i'm probably wrong. a lot of people say there are more historic things happening today the new focusing on the fire. edward lawrence, so good at following this. hillary vaughan on capitol hill following other developments, the president was there earlier today, not there, in a hotel, talking to a lot of republican house key players, showing his support, mike johnson and all of this as the senate decides

on new leader, john will be the guy controlling them. >> reporter: donald trump, different reception on capitol hill. he was met with roaring applause from house republicans as he stopped by the meeting before he made his way to meet with president biden. it was a homecoming rally but also a game day peptalk. trump leveled with republicans who at times had bickered among themselves over issues. 's message to them get it all done and unify. he doesn't wind any gop defectors slowing down his agenda. it's possible once all the house raises are called, houseboat republicans only have a couple seat majority come and a lot of wiggle room, trump seemed confident whatever majority they end up within the house, 5 seats or one it won't be a problem. >> a very nice gathering. isn't it nice to win. nice to win. always nice to win.

you are looking at five or four? five or four, doesn't matter. we get used to one for a little while. when you get used to one you can get used to anything. >> reporter: trump made a few jokes to the crowd. elon musk who was with him today, trump joked he can't get rid of him and he won't be running for president again telling the crowd unless you do something, say he is good, we have 2 figure something out. republicans in the room say other presidents made the same line. >> is just having a little fun. i'm old enough to remember ronald reagan teasing about that. it's not unusual. especially after a big win. >> reporter: we have a good idea of who trump's go to guys will be on the hill, john thune was picked for senate majority leader and we are expecting mike johnson will be reelected as speaker with no issues, trump endorsed him today at that meeting.

neil: i want to go to congressman tony gonzalez who won reelection in his district, house appropriations committee. congratulations to you. you have not afraid in the past to criticize those in your party come outside your party. you have a big election when yourself among the first to know the latino vote was significant but we find out border communities like your own it went very persuasively for donald trump. what did you make of that? >> thank you for having me. i think it shows that the american people have had enough with these policies the biden/harris administration put together whether they were security policies along the border, economic policies but there's also no time to waste. capitol hill is on fire. we spoke, the house republicans spoke with donald trump earlier. elon musk was there. there was a lot of energy in

the room, certainly a big congratulations to senator thune but time to get to work. the american people are falling further behind, there is no time to waste. we have to put more money in people's pockets, we have to get government out of the way, not in the way and we have a border to fix. all that needs to happen in a short period as soon as we get sworn in this next congress. julie: mentioned elon musk and he and vivek ramaswamy have this role where they are going to be looking at the department of government efficiency or doga but they are unelected officials, not cabinet officials, they don't need approval by the house or the senate. does that part, these outsiders coming in and doing what you do or what the house is supposed to do or what the senate is supposed to do bother you? >> doesn't bother me. it could be a positive thing if

we capture in the right manner. when you have an outside look, someone like elon musk who revolutionized the way we operate and he was influential in this election, the fact that donald trump won all seven swing states wasn't by accident. elon went in on that. the hispanic vote was critical to that. those things line up to say the american people demand results. it cannot be more of the same, can't be elected politicians blaming people for what is wrong to. we have to solve these problems and i welcome anyone who wants to help. elon will be a fit for it. neil: thank you very much. chuck schumer is congratulating john thune saying i look forward to working with him, we've done many things together and i hope that continues. looking good. i'm thinking... (speaking to self) about our honeymoon. what about africa? safari? hot air balloon ride? swim with elephants?

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neil: donald trump has left the white house. he was longer than most people thought but the motorcade seen leaving. it was a friendly visit from what we have seen from that roaring fire side chat, returning january 20th to begin a second term as president on the left-hand side of the screen. the new republican leader, john thune will be the majority leader when the senate body takes over. we are hearing from rick scott who lost a shot at trying to become that leader. thank you for making your voices heard to demand change, only 13 senators when all was said and done. that is that. brian brenberg and "the big money show" guys. brian: i am brian brenberg