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i'm david asman in for larry kudlow. deep inside the department of justice with the top picks and insiders are in a panic mode, particularly over trump's pick in that case and as his attorney general going to have jim jordan on that in just a moment. first fox news' david spunt is live inside the beltway with the very latest. david. reporter: hi, david. good to be with you. the president is rounding out top levels of the justice department with two of the personal attorneys. todd blanch is the defense attorney and three of the most recent cases fought against jack smith and doj in court and if confirmed, running day-to-day operations of the justice department as deputy attorney general.

it'll no longer be released since gaetz resigned and he posted on social media, david, lies were weaponnized to destroy me and resulted in prosecution, conviction and prison. for the liars, not me. i focused on the truth and doing my job. here we are. fox news told gaetz was working the phones yesterday and is doing it again today. he needs a simple majority to be confirmed as next attorney general. reporter: the president elect

considering both different men for the role and congressman mike rogers and loyalist kash patel as fbi director. chris wray, seven year into this term and it was mike rogers from michigan we showed by mistake mike rogers from alabama. two mike rogers but mike rogers, the former michigan congressman who just lost the senate seat in michigan. david: david spunt, good to see you. thank you, my friend. have a good weekend. now we have jim jordan of ohio. man, it's a lot to talk about here. jim, great to see you.

talking about what we're in the midst of right now. play that and get your reaction. roll it. >> i think this is going to be transformative for the presidency. perhaps this is going for the country. david: is that hyperbole or fair said? jot american people voted for a change in attitude from their government. they want a 3459 gaetz running doj and not filling up school board meeting ands not having an fbi putting out memorandum like in the fbi field office and if you're a pro life catholic, you're an extremist and might get answers to questions that i

think the whole country would like to know. like who planted the pipe bombs on january 6? who leaked dobbs minute that resresulted in assassination attempts that resulted in the supreme court justices? maybe he'll get an answer into who put cocaine in the white house for example? that's what we want. this is a whole new coalition that's come together embracing freedom and embracing a government that's going to serve the taxpayers, serve we the people, not be targeted for political reasons against the very people they're supposed to be serving. david: one of the best ways they can serve the american people is by shrinking, is by not being so big and so intrusive into our daily lives. also, it's not just the size but the bias and giving you an idea of what's inside the beltway. not everybody that works in the federal government lives inside of dc. i want to show you how they voted inside the beltway, 92.5%

of the people in washington. they voted for kamala harris. only 6.7% voted for trump. that tells you something contraindication for cerumen removal righted? >> no, it sure does and they like big government and part of government and like the crazy left mentality that we see in today's democrat party unfortunately. yeah, we want a government that's actually protecting freedom. that's why i love the picks. ever think you'd see them on the same team? david: no, up till a year ago, never in a million years. >> right, they value the first amendment. how bad it was i talk to rfk jr. a couple months ago when he endorsed president trump, and we first laugh because i remind him when i invited him as a witness over a year ago, i took heat for that . i had him come and testify and we had tulsi gabbard when they

were democrats and came and testified and we took heat. we look like geniuses now that this new coalition has come together and in that hearing, in that hearing, the democrats made a motion to go to executive session so kick everyone out and no one could hear what rfk jr. was going to testify to in a hearing about censorship. david: i remember that very well. it's a whole new world and curtain was pulled back and americans didn't like what they saw and voted for a revolutionary change and going to talk about the belly of the beast. you mentioned it already. the department of justice, fbi, which is their enforcement mechanism. you went through some of the things of lawfare against trump and raids and basically it was a violation of the constitution and particularly it's still happening. we had this details of this raid on polymarket.

that betting firm that was apparently armed fbi agents went in there and got the guy. he was the perp walked out and the fourth amendment against unreasonable search and seizure is violated his name is jeff vetri. shouldn't he -- there be a change in the director of the miami office now that the president is his arch enemy? >> i can't have politics driving reaction of law enforcement and frankly any agency and we've got example of fema. we're going to skip the houses with trump signs in their yard and getting them to go get what

they need as american citizens and taxpayers when you politicize things and fbi or fema or irs targeting the groups as they did a decade ago. that's wrong and it's got to stop. that's what this focusing on and smaller is better and smaller government going through them and elon musk and vivek ramaswamy working on and shrinking down government and giving us that report and we can put into legislation and doing what they have. david: he sounds just as bad as peter struck. he was involved in this same kind of horrible stuff about trump and social media and it worried a lot of people when he

was made head of the investigation into the potential assassination at mar-a-lago. we get a new director and despite change and run an investigation throughout miami and running through the field office and this important field office in miami. it was a search warrant and art warrant and he doesn't meet you and no, no, they have to go in predawn raid and going for this and this is just wrong in the country know it is and it's why i think it was one of the reasons why president won by an overwhelming market. david: kash patel is the type of president that president elect is looking touchdown pass head up the fbi. if it's kash patel or someone else like him.

a tough guy with experience that knows how these enforcement agencies work. thousand would they go about going to convince mr. wray to step down? >> that'll be a call for the president. the president asks for that and that'll probably happen. that was part of this mandate in this election and voting for as i said, this new attitude where the agencies and people running these agencies actually are focused on serving the public versus focused on politics. kash patel, as you know worked for devin nunez and that's one of the top staffers for president trump and whoever he nominates for the key position and getting these folks through the senate and getting them confirmed. david: talk about matt gaetz and controversial pick and apparently he had the doj that's weaponnized and politicized as the doj was and didn't find the

stuff to indict it and anything indictable in the record and doj would have found it and gone after it. they dropped it and house going through it and there's a lot of hearsay and do you think senator thune will let him pass through the senate confirmation process and let him accept it? >> that's the way our constitution works and that's advising and confirming with the senate's responsibility and what i know matt gaetz is a member of the community and going for the best way i've seen in my time in congress and cross examining for the individual and going for head of doj and as i said before, he's not going to be going out and investigating moms and dads and showing up to protect their kids and getting their kids the right kind of education and not going to be engaged for this crazy thing and going for the last 8 to 10

years. david: president trump could bypass the senate with a recess appointment. we've seen it before and enacting the role as attorney general up to two years wouldn't be as good as being con if i wered by the senate. here's what "the wall street journal" editorial board said about doing something like that. "the prospect is that mr. trump might try to bully the senate to go into a recess to unilaterally make mr. gaetz the foreign general till the end of -- attorney general till the end of 2026. it's anti-constitutional and would eliminate one of the basic checks on power that the founder built into the american system of government". do you agree or disagree? >> that's a question for the senate and relationship with the white house. you know, we would prefer the institution, we're the ones protecting them with the second amendment going with the

constitution and separate and equal branches of government and we want them to function and getting through the confirmation process goings for president trump going to put up and it's going to be critical and it's keeping it going and value of freedom and going for them and they censor and try to e-mail and going between rfk jr. and their political competition and since 2021, they sent out an e-mail and take down this tweet everything and anything in the e-mail or everything in his tweet was accurate. but they didn't like the connotation. they didn't like the message it conveyed and that is wrong and everyone understands it. david: thinking about the first, second, fourth amendment that are either directly violated or planned and they have the nerve to talk about defending the constitution. i mean, i don't think the american people buy it. i think the election proved the

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secretary is facing in a generation. david: again, so much sounds like hyperbole and the defense department is really in shape and where can you begin to fix it? >> i ideal candidate to rally the troops and soldiers and we have their back and that's critically important and getting these pentagons working and acting and operating as they need to. david: general keen did address that and he said he didn't think it was going to be as hard as some say it was to get rid of. most of the military folks he knows were dead set against it in the first place. thought it was a waste of time and draining resources and draining attention from what's important and they will follow the orders from the commander in

chief. particularly this one, who has real general respect for the military and realizes how their ham strung by the rules. going for them and insidious influence going back to executive orders of president obama&in 2012 and 2011 time frame and going for them going to be quick with decisive leadership and that's the benefit of pete hegseth's selection. david: one thing the general going to have particular going for them and there's so many legacy systems that are going for congress and that are using old material with an old way of thinking and they've not modernized because they're so

important to certain congressmen and senators and they've got to be convinced. they've got to somehow have their arms twisted by the secretary of defense or directly by president trump to get rid of them so we get on a new system and chinese are not wasting any time jowski none have come close on delivering on the time frame we need and going to invest in some of the key capabilities that will deliver to the battlefield of the next two toeo three years but at the same time going for procurement and grow the fleet and arsenal of emissions and no time to tinker with some science project and going for them and we have to do a bit of that and we have to do

a lot more one year's worth of standard missile threes and intercepting them going with ballistic missiles is really telling. david: you have a background in asian, going to cover asia and going to play a little sound bytes from the general talking about china and very worrisome thoughts. roll that tape. david: we could lose a war.

>> we need to be a lot more serious about how we treat the chinese threat and as a navy officer, i follow for many years and it's a slow moving train wreck to where we are today. not only take significant investments and actions to signal the chinese that it's not going to be a fight they're going to win. david: finally saying all that, we have to be careful because there's a revolving door you know well and inside the beltway working for defense and making a lot of money and providing for people and selling defense stuff and going for them and that revolving door, pete hegseth is not inside that process and hopefully can stay with it and trying to suck him into that military industrial complex.

>> i'm out here in asia and japan traveling around and urgency and desire to see america step up and change courses, you can feel it. you can't continue to do conventional wisdom or approaches and 20, 30 years and you have to be challenged and not going to get that with the same revolving door type of people and doing the same thing. god bless the decision we're seeing. david: trump is a builder and knows how to build th things and cost when there shouldn't be things and the pontogone is notorious for having them sign off on and he's going to be there either. we thank you, brent. appreciate it.

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david: tom, when you see cases like that, those were her last seconds and given cpr by a cop that failed to revive here. you know, must have been horribly defending champion at a timing for the 27 family members of hers in the courtroom listening to that and i want secretary mayorkas to listen to that, and i just want all of the governors and the mayors of sanctuary cities to listen to that and hear their reactions and going for them to watch it today. >> it really bothered me and reminded me standing by for the tractor trailer with 19 dead people at my feet, include ago 5-year-old little boy that all baked to death; right. all the governors and mayors going to deport me for the operations and laken riley is one of many, many and just don't think this is going and i want people to know.

it isn't just a young lady and i want to know she fought for her life and fought for her breath. this young girl fought to live. she wanted to live. she didn't want to die. listen to the tape and sink in. that's happening across this country. david: it's most shameful and a raid on a group of four child rapists that -- in different places in massachusetts and they were arrested and then let go by public authorities because of all the rules, crazy rules they had and ice went in there and had to get them without any help. i'm sure a lot of cops wanted to help them and they couldn't help them. more recently going for the past couple of days and a suspect in, again, as a child rapist and

governor heelly on whether or not she's responds to these bad cases. >> if the trump administration requested, would the massachusetts state police assist in mass deportations >> no, absolutely not. david: how can you top these people from preventing law enforcement to deal with ice? >> she's an idiot. idiot. the reason i say that is her responsibility is to protect her community. her number one ability is to protect the community and president trump made it clear. when we started deportation operation, we're going to claw the gate and our first pryorty is public safety threats and national security threats. so any mayor that does not want to help us take public safety threats out of their communities is just an idiot. if she doesn't want to help, get the hell out of the way and

we're coming to do this. she needs to understand this, if she doesn't want to let us in to jail, you'll release the bad guys into neighborhoods, we'll go into neighborhoods and what you don't want. it's the number one issue and going to remove the public safety threats for the community and help us or not. david: they had tps and they're legal and as far as i know, anybody with a t p, s, that doesn't mean they were vetted and they could be and probably most of them are not criminals like this or predators on children and other innocence but we don't know and how do you argue saying they're legal and temporary protected status.

>> they vet them against ac and i recollects the trip in our systems.

david: switching to heart-based immigration system. >> yeah, made rooms for moms, dads, sons and daughters. i'm hoping we fixed a daca and president trump working for the american public. david: congratulations and stay safe, my friend. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me. david: one of the most controversial picks for the cabinet is robert f. kennedy jr. going to department of health and human services and it's a massive government bureaucracy and oversees 130 billion in discretionary spending and look at this. our gargantuan 1.7 billion.

alex marlow and going for the news and fox business digest and dr. marty ma carry are -- marty makary. that's what we had and patients that used to obey whatever the doctor told them or any medical authority. but also for doctors who are going to inform robert f kennedy changes that going to be made in the department of health and human services.

>> 20% on medications and the medical establishment saying we need more medications and talk about the poison food supply and the root causes and that's going for them on rfk jr. going to care about their kids and this is a historic going for all too well,s resistance to this. david: they're united now with

this gargantuan institution and that's tough to go against and almost 2 trillion. >> they oversold the vaccine and not terrible and sold as a miracle cure and treated nba all stars the same way we treated 80 year-olds with hypertension and obesity and it was completely absurd and clearly to anyone that pays attention much less scientists and you get a disrupter and try to give the american people clarity of what's going on.

this is created by a health establishment and wife on the front lines is a doctor during the coronavirus and they're cool. if the people in our bureaucracy fed us these lives and going to get them out. david: sticking with us for now and how will this bureaucracy combine with this there's no interest in the country and hyper-pharmaceutical and going for salespeople that are getting us hooked on things and never giving us a way out of of it and helping us understand things we're not really thinking about because he's a guy that's giving this deep, deep thought and was considered for a cabinet post and by barack obama going to be outraged. david: that's interesting and i didn't realize it and, doctor,

have you been attacked personally because a lot of what you say in the book deal withs things that rfk plans to put in the policy. >> the purposes of science is challenging deeply held assumptions and shake up the medical establishment and we're not on a good path as country in terms of health of the population. if they're claiming that rfk is a threat to public health are crazy, i'll tole you what's crazy. these are the same people that are pushing ozempic and 6 year-olds told us opioids nonaddictive with vaccine mandates and that's the dangerous path of what rfk is telling us.

david: it's about problems they had with mandates and being forced to take the vaccine and going for government coercion and dealing with the government problem and didn't that unit americans behind what rfk wants to do? >> he's a big free speech guy and beloved by his friends and people that have gotten to know him and he's a true advocate for that and i think noting that the lockdowns turned out to be as devastating for this country as pandemic itself and the fact that our public health establishment never investigated where the or gi origin of the vs came from and thought it came from the labs and it's an affront to robert kennedy and he's the perfect guy to shake things up. david: this is fun. a lot of fun facts in your book by the way. i'll put it up here for another plug on that and cholesterol, really as bad as we've been told? >> well, a harvard med student

just ate 487 eggs in a month and ldl cholesterol went down and showing the myth tiptoeing around cholesterol is medical and so much of what we put out there. david: a lot of other medical dogma rebutted very much. thank you both for coming in. coming up, president trump tapped north dakota governor doug burgum as steerer secretary and what -- as secretary and what will be needed and asking former secretary when kudlow continues.

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i'm joined by former energy secretary. dan, who was the other guy and he said they, the other guy, you know who the other guy was that might be his pick for energy secretary for all i know? >> i don't know, david. i do not know. question arkansas david: ho do you fix it in the energy department? corrupt and broken parts of it? >> doug knows how to manage people and organizations and governor of north dakota and did a great job there and he's the perfect candidate for this and he mixes not only his management expertise and management skill, but his deep understanding of the energy markets and next 10

for 20 years. david: i got to ask, how do you manage the green new deal, which lets -- face t it's the reduction inflation act and president biden admit that had. low do you manage that instead of getting rid of it. >> there was a 20 billion slush fund part of the reduction act and not governmental organizations and they're not going for them and going with congress onto take it with them and next thing is look at where some of these funds and grants and going to start the marketplace and going for

resident to goings back and i think you identify those things really, really quickly and overall, david, one of the things he has to do and david: so many programs mandated by the green new deal going for that and the whole mandate is to replace fossil fuels with renewables and it can't be done. >> there's a 30% capacity phacofactor and efficiency rate

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