>> tremendous skewing in the averages and companies that are $3 trillion in&more out there and while they have huge profit potential on the other hand there's a lot of opportunities in companies that have been basically overlooked. liz: kevin, great to have you once again. here comes the closing bell everybody. on the first friday of january. all 11 sectors on this continuing in the green. larry: hello, folks, welcome to

kudlow, i'm larry kudlow. it was high noon drama in the house where mike johnson was reelected speaker by a cat's whisker. we'll talk to senator chuck grassley and house gop chair lisa mcclain and ke kellyanne conway and others in just a few moments. first jump in with a quick recap from fox news aishah hasnie live from capitol hill. virginia foxx fell badly, bleeding, something or other. can you help us on that? reporter: yes, you know, larry, in the capitol there's all these marble floors and it gets slippery and we're hearing that virginia foxx took a tumble down steps and her head was bleeding apparently. she is conscious, she is speaking. apparently they have paramedics on the way to help her so she's going to get treatment and they're kind of cordoning off the area and she's in good hands

and being taken care of again and awake and talking and she did take a slip and fell in those steps. reporter: yeah, turns out, larry, the man that closed the deal for speaker mike johnson was none other than the president elect himself. sources are telling us that donald trump was on speakerphone with both norman and self, those two holdououts that were voting against johnson right after they voted against him and this is what we're being told that trump got on the phone and told these guys "it would be disrespectful to americans who voted in a historic presidential election to have this speaker's vote go to a second or third ballot, and it would be disrespectful to me"ending with,"female las, we have a -- fellas, we have to lot

to do, let's get to it". apparently it worked, that phone call and trump said tvs a great honor to have helped and this process that brought the gop conference a lot closer together. johnson secured the gavel in the first round, not without drama of course and we saw six republicans originally refuse to vote, three republicans voted for somebody else but then members began huddling and the talk with trump happened, larry. someone in the room told me that johnson promised these guys he would be more inclusive, this would not be a top down conference and he would have people of good faith in the room working on the big bills and told that johnson did not make any deals and didn't hand over any deals and here he is talking to what is now the new congress right after getting the gavel. listen. >> we recognize that the core principles that made america what we are must still be preserved today.

the principles, i call them the seven core principles of american conservative but the seven core principles of the nation itself. individual freedom, individual government, rule of law, peace through strength, fiscal responsibility, free markets, human dignity. reporter: larry, we did see some of the trump world folks here in person as well. there was definitely pressure from mar-a-lago but there were people representing the president elect himself here on the ground as well. and it worked. larry. larry: aishah, when did that trump phone call news break? must have just happened. reporter: looked like it happened right after that vote was doomed for speaker johnson. larry: the pause? reporter: yeah, the pause and we didn't know if it was going to go to the second vote or not. when people started huddling together and members started leaving the chamber floor a. lot of people brought kids and wanted to get something to eat, and that's really what afforded

some time for speaker johnson to have these conversations. he slipped into the cloak room but not in the cloak room but in the side room is where trump was put on speakerphone. i'm hearing from someone that it was nancy mace possibly that got him on the phone. then hand that had over and the talk began. it was both trump and johnson i think talking to these two guaranteed credits and tropical storming that they will it'll bin collusive conference on trimming the deficit. larry: that's great news. aishah hasnie, thank you, appreciate it very, very much. yes, it was high noon today on the floor of the house of representatives and michael johnson was finally reelected to be speaker in the 119th congress. by a huge vote of 218-2015. may be a -- 218-215.

reminds me of high noon cowboy movie. cooper won an oscar for his role of cleaning out the bad guys and at the end of the movie, he shoots the worst criminal in town. wasn't exactly like this on the floor of the house but in the end mike johnson was able to persuade dozens of gop rebels including some friendly persuasion, i guess with donald trump for the last two holdouts. the guy cooper metaphor and not precise and you get the picture. speaker johnson gave a strong acceptance speech touching on the elements of president trump's mandate for change agenda. listen to this one. >> we will act quickically we will start by defending our nation's boarders. that's the number one priority. we'll deport dangerous criminal, illegal aliens and finally finish building the border wall.

larry: the speaker then promptly moved into pro growth tax cuts. take a listen to this one. >> after four years of high inflation, there's a big agenda and fight high inflation and we must. we'll give relief to americans and we'll extend the trump tax cuts. larry: he'll be stuck with biden fellation and caused in part by the last minute and lame duck biden spending and federal reserve that is monetizing biden's deficits by cutting interest rates and inflating the money supply. unless mr. trump's supply side tax cuts and deregulation is quickly put into place, this new year 2025 could turn out to be very disappointing for the broad working class coalition that gave them a resounding electoral victory and that's why the new congress should immediately move

to put together what some sources close to president trump are calling one big beautiful bill. that would include tax cuts and border closing and the doge brothers spending cuts, energy deregulation and a peace through strengths defense component. let's not waste any time and happened back in 2017. let's start right away with one big beautiful reconciliation fiscal package. get it done by mid year at the latest. that will conquer biden fell-flationand a match needed . that's the riff. weir joined by the great iowa senator chuck grassley and chair of the judiciary committee. senator grassley, wonderful to see you, sir. happy new year and thought you'd react to this high noon dramatic

cat's whisker vote victory for speaker pike johnson. what do you think, sir? >> it's key to getting mandate of the november 5 election, which elected president trump once again to get it on the role. if we had to lose one day and one week, who knows how long it could have take and to come up with somebody else. i'm just glad it's over and it's good news for all the people that voted for trump, even if they don't know who speaker johnson is. larry: actually, if they hadn't got it through, you could have been president by january 20th, president protemporal integration of the senate. no speaker and no certification monday or maybe not even januar. as i understand it, you would have stood in line to become president. >> well, president pro tem job is very important job in the

united states senate, but i'm just glad that scenario didn't happen because what it would be is blow everything that was accomplished by reelecting president trump and just blow it all away. we can't afford to lose one day let alone a month after getting this agenda under way and we're ready in the united states senate as a first republican majority and fourth year to meaux the trump agenda along and we know that elections are supposed to have consequences and one of the consequences is delivering on what the voters thought about and closing the border means continuing the tax policies of the last eight years and whole bunch of other stuff. america first is the best way to put it. larry: yes, sir. you're going to take over as chairman of the very important judiciary committee and i just want to switch gear as little bit, senator grassley.

i mean, the fbi again, i don't know if the word botched is the right word, but we couldn't get a straight answer. this horrible nightmarish evil terrorist act in new orleans for example. first the fbi said it wasn't a terrorist act and then they said it was. first the fbi said that there were accomplices and then said no, there weren't. so much gone wrong with the fbi in the last four years or in fact really going further than that with all the nonsense of trump's russia hoax and so forth. what do you make of that? can kash patel come in and clean house?

>> i look very favorable at this particular time and expect him to get through and expect him to make big changes on the eighth floor of the hoover building here in washington dc. and have law enforcement or fbi become law enforcement agency and not the political weapon that it's been to arrest and bring charges against trump as an example to use it as a political tool to defeat who was supposed to defeat who's now going to be the next president of the united states. larry: senator, i assume you'll get along famously with my good friend pam bondi nominated to be attorney general and important job and another place that needs housekeeping i would think, sir. >> i've met with her and i'm enthused with her work that

she's done as a prosecutor, and i think we'll find the justice department being prosecuting and not being used as a political weapon against political enemies and there's one thing that can speed up her nomination and that is if the transition team that we're working with of the new trump administration would get the background investigations and the other reports and i want to get it so i can schedule the meeting for july -- hearing for june -- what am i saying -- january the 14th. larry: i'm sure they're listening to that and will get it forthwith and thank you. happy new year. i know it's an inside joke and so glad we got this interview done and didn't yell at me once. that's the most wonderful gift. >> well, we're not in the oval

office and that makes a difference. larry: senator chuck grassley, thank you, sir and good luck. appreciate it very much. >> thank you. larry: we're joined by the great kellyanne conway and former council to president trump and host of here's the deal with kellyanne on fox nation. kellyanne, great to see you. what did you read into this battle that mike johnson finally won? >> i love it. he told me earlier this week when i was guest hosting for sean hannity he had the votes and knows he can only suffer one or two defections and i love how positive, forward looking subsubstantiateddive and granular the speaker remarks were after that vote, larry. reminds me of donald trump on the campaign trail. people aren't just having a mandate for lower inflation, lower interest rates, stop to

all this migration madness and border insecurity. and these foreign wars and they've won a government that was smaller and less invasive and instrewsive and expansive and has -- intrusive and expanse and i have relationship with the citizenery and not punitive and confiscatory and overbearing and you hear that from president trump obviously and now from speaker johnson. larry, i love the fact the speaker took the gavel and immediately talked about those seven governing principles and said it's conservatism but founding principles of america and he just kn knows them off te top of his head and individual freedom and free market economy and sovereignty and security and this is what america voted for, i have to say, president trump weighing in is so appropriate here because he basically is telling these holdouts, look, you may have general concerns and you're putting on the table that you want more workdays, great, and you want more time to read and debate bills before you

vote on them. larry, we're the party and movement that believes that and because, nancy pelosi during obama care said you have to pass the bill to know what's in it. we want to give people the grace and space to read the legislation and debate it. donald trump stood up in the campaign and mike johnson winning today affirms it. they broke it, i'll fix it and adjunct to that, larry kudlow, they ignored it and i'm going t. yes. one of the mike johnson, who i supported for this speakership and i'm very glad it turned out good today, but he made a big mistake with the first cr. he suspended the pay go spending cuts, okay. that caused a rebellion amongst the freedom caucus and others, but unfortunately a lot of republican house members and a

lot of republican senate ebb manies are all too happy to suspend pay go and not make the budget cuts. i always talk about the doge brothers, elon musk and vivek ramaswamy, and i hope mr. trump relies heavily on them. i want the tax cuts as soon as possible and one reconciliation bill and part of that along with the boarder and deregulation and defense and so forth u part has to be spending restraint and savings and the government is full and blowedded and there's a lot of crap we don't need and alphabet agencies and worked in the they're guiding them and party where everyone spends them and has to be a real change here. >> the republican party and it was the fiscally restrained party and we didn't like it's the partisan problem in

washington. people spend money we don't have on things we don't need and ask for. this is a cause for pause and and shoot the federal spending and american households and small businesses had to restrain their own spending and we all broadcasting them as well and very expensive and i know that during the bush years they felt getting us out of fiscal crisis is expensive and we don't need to spend all the money and doge, department of government efficiency will show us where there's duplication and private sector and much more cheaply and efficiently and going to remember there's some colleagues trying to improve the technology in this department or that agency and simply didn't have the hardware to sustain this software. people say that the federal government is asking me to fax

in information and nobody has a fax machine anymore. getting us into the 20th censure reigns leading would be a good idea and i think they can do it. that's going to be automatic cost savings but look, larry, whether it's crypto, ai, energy independence, drill baby drill, inflation, these sec silluation packages, donald trump can do so much with this congress, and apart from this congress the executive order commanding his departments and agencies to look under the hood and say what changed in the last four years and get rid of the climate people and dei programs and extra staff nonsense layered on that people probably suspect is there and intuitive and they don't know and i think, larry, last point. let it all hang out. let the doge people and department agencies tell us what they're doing and going on. make us part of it. make it transparent and get donald trump out and tweeting and truthing about what's happen so we feel like we're part of

the government again. larry: kellyanne, last point, 30 seconds, all i got. the way trump -- i didn't know that trump got on the phone with the two holdouts. i just learned that from our reporter, aishah hasnie. he's rollup sleeves and hands on and will call you if he doesn't like something and wants to get something done. that's going to be a welcomed change. he's an executive and has an agenda and knows what he wants to do, and he'll get it done. you know, we all work together in the first term, we've seen it. this going to be even bigger and more interesting if you ask me. this was vintage trump calling in right at the last minute to turn that thing around. >> president trump is an executive as you say, a ceo, but he's also a negotiator and collaborator ask&people see that and intuit that. larry, there's hopefulness we

can pick off a couple democrats in the house, maybe a john fetterman in the senate and some others saying you know what, i didn't vote for tax and jobs cut act -- sorries jobs act the first time but it's benefited my district and helping small businesses in my state. what's all the anti-fracking and fossil fuel and lng permit stuff and i'll take a look at that now. i'm hearing complaints as a democrat from my constituents on immigration and border insecurity. i think i'll vote for some of this. we have a great moment for there to be bipartisan support for the agenda and president trump -- larry: he'll negotiate. we will. >> he called those folks today, larry and said what do you need? in other words, what's the hold out? instead of being punitive as i know other presidents and their chief advisers have bun. different times and we'll never campaign for you again and not get any money from the committees unless you do this. president trump saying what do you need?

why are you holding out? that's the why to do it and off to a great start, larry and he's not even in there yet. larry: happy new year, kellyanne ever so much. talk again and happy new year. we'll get the details of mike johnson speakership vote victory and how mr. trump made it happen and interesting wrinkle to that story. coming up, we have house gop conference chair ms. lisa mcclain. look forward to hearing about all that. i'm kudlow, be right back. ♪ progressive makes it easy to see if you can save money with a commercial auto quote online so you can get back to your monster to-do list. super helpful. see if you can save money at progressivecommercial.com.

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larry: more on the high noon draconian that and bring in house gop conference chair, lisa mcclain. lisa, thank you. i know it's a busy day. appreciate your time very, very much. just a quick word, virginia foxx is a friend of mine fell down the stairs, marble stairs and i know how slippery that stuff is. been there a million times. is virginia okay? >> yeah, she's okay. she's in the office of the attending physicians right now and receiving medical treatment so she's conscious, she's talking, but she had a pretty good fall so keep her in your thoughts and prayers. larry: i sure will. if you see her, send that message.

she is a friend -- been on the show many, many times, and she's a great lady. >> i definitely will. larry: first of all, lisa. saw you this morning and watching your nomination speech. you're definitely a gop star. no two ways about that and terrific speech. i want to a ask you, were you in the meeting where president trump spoke to mr. norman and mr. self at the last minute? >> no, i was not. i believe that was a private conversation between the president and those two gentlemen. he wants to put forward for the american people and he's ready and expects us to get to work, and that's exactly what we're ready and prepared to do now that mike johnson is confirmed as speaker of the house.

larry: as it was reported by aishah hasnie, he said they're disrespecting him and the power of the voters. he's not making a promise to give you this judgeship or that judgeship. he says you're disrespecting what the people voted on and what our agenda is supposed to be. >> yeah, you're spot on. president trump ran on an agenda that he needs and wants to deliver to the american people. abecause that's what the americn people want and a better economy and secure borders and energy independence, et cetera, et cetera. until we got a speaker of the house, we couldn't do anything to help the american people. speaker johnson elected on the first round today and we're ready to get back to work.

larry: i think it's interesting my friends in the freedom caucus and mostly voted for mike johnson who himself is a genuine conservative, isn't he? >> he is one of the most conservative men i know. you are right, the bulk of the freedom caucus members and there were only three holdouts, actually voted for mike johnson but at the end, we got the job done and that's what i really want to focus on is not the division, but really the unity that we have going forward, and if you look at the members of the freedom caucus that voted no, what they want to make sure is that they're voices are heard, which i believe mike johnson will do because he has a very bottom up approach but we all are very concerned about making sure we make process changes and that we vote and that we are fiscally conservative and pay attention

to the debt and our spending. there's got to be definite changes, no question. larry: there's got to be. we have to restore pay go and offsets and i mean, i'm a supply side tax cutter and has to be spend constraint, and i hope the doge brothers will be instrumental in doing that. lisa, before i let you go and say happy new year, you are a star, especially after today's speech, but i want to put in my thing, one just real quick, one big, beautiful bill. put it all on the table and need a blue collar boom, i need tax cuts and border security and deregulation and defense spespending and some budget cutg and so forth. one big beautiful bill. a friend of mine told me that, i can't say who are but i was going to try and lobby you for it. >> dually noted and i can share with you, larry, we're going to

conference to work on it about 9:30 a.m. and talking about it all day tomorrow to get that done. larry: i knew you were a star. i absolutely knew it. i understand it. >> you're too kind. larry: lee kansas city chiefs mcclain, thank you -- lisa mcclain, thank you ever so much and congratulations on your speech. >> happy new year. larry: happy new year to you, ma'am. coming up on kudlow, will trump help congress defeat the regulatory state? will bidenflation keep plaguing president trump or will supply side tax cuts and deregulation beat bidenflation? we have steve forbes, jason, rich lowry. everybody is coming up onset. remember, folks, kudlow is available as a podcast. episodes every weekday right after the show on spotify and apple and f foxbusinesspodcasts.com i'm going to podcast one big, ♪eautiful bill.en

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to pass legislation to roll back the totalitarian forth branch of government known as administrative state. we're going to drastically cut back the size and scope of government. our people do not deserve to be ruled by millions of bureaucrats they never voted for, never met and can never hold accountable. larry: right on. regulatory state. go for it. doge brothers, go for it. steve forbes and media chairman and editor in chief. jason trennert, chairman of strategic securities and rich lowry, editor and chief in the review. welcome and happy new year, gentlemen. steve forbes, yosically -- not invented regulatory state but talking about the phrase regulatory state as a barrier to economic growth. and mike johnson put it in there, and i think tram subpoena

with you on this. >> equivalent of the huge tax cut and biden admin vagues is still at it and finalizing regulations that ban 40% of new gas heating and require natural gas heating for water heaters. can't have water heaters anymore after 2029 or whatever and they're going all the way. really gums up the works. it's going to turn us, if not stop like germany. germany is de-invest trillionizing and energy costs two to three time what is they are here. this is basically undemocratic, and donald trump needed the authority, that's why his victory today with the speaker johnson is so important and establishes trump's authority. one thing to win an election and quite another can you get the agenda through the house of representatives and the senate? showed today he supported johnson and made sure the votes were delivered. so he's established authority to get big things down come january to the. if we had another clown show on that speaker side, that would have severely damaged prospect for big tax cuts and other

things come january 20th. larry: yeah, rich lowry, he stepped in. steve is right. he stepped in. it's very trumpen what he did. we haven't seen thn quite a few years and he's been out of office. he's a hands on guy and anybody that -- as a staff personnel, i can tell you. he'll call you, he will call you into the oval or on the phone at 7:00 in the morning and steve forbes said, hoe wasn't about to let his a-- he wasn't about to let his agenda go down in some insane inside fight for the republican party. what do you make of that? >> it's different and a modern version of lbj. worked his numbers and pick up the phone, you've lost because he's going to convince you one way or another, not sure when he'll do it but he'll convince you. that's what he did on the floor. president trump will have to get used to this and reconciliation bill and hard enough to pass one let alone two. two. larry: just look at this. look at them.

can't agree on a cr or debt and making a lot of phone calls on the cr. why do it twice if it's hard enough to do it once. larry: absolutely. thank you for that. and larry: lingering sticky bidenflation and numbers moving in the wrong direction and last minute lame duck spending is off the charts. and hundreds of billions and the fed is monetizing the deficits and cutting ra ra rates and they shouldn't. they're increasing and inflating the money supply and shouldn't. that's why i'm saying supply side policies can rescue this and not get them soon, it'll be a problem. >> we've looked at this and past inflationary waves and chances are nine in ten you get a second wave regardless of who's elected and that's partly because wage earners are behind and asking for higher wages after the first wave is passed but also

particularly hard when you're running budget deficits of 6.5% of gdp and making it very difficult for productivity to bail you out and in my opinion, it's the only trump administration is going to get out of this deficit is a percentage of gdp or debt to gdp prop is through productivity -- problem is through productivity and hard to cut spending and we should dry. larry: got to. >> going to be hard to increase taxes enough, which would be precisely the wrong thing to do and trying to spur productivity. larry: cut tax. >> you want to cut taxes but the other way to do it would be to raise taxes but that's not going to work. to me, it's all about productivity. >> and tell anyone at this table, but it's a huge underpretty sureuated story of reagan killing inflation. paul volker and the fed but supply side economics increasing productivity huge part of the story. larry: right, you're on a tear today. lbj, bright side economics. >> too bad lbj never understood that. larry: right. [ laughter ].

larry: a federal judge strikes down biden's net neutrality and ruined the internet and nobody would invest in the internet and stupid biden left wing progressive idea. and federal jung ordering biden to stop selling the border wall equipment and anything like that. and that's incredible. and another point here, dock workers could go on strike january 15th. had a mini strike in october coming back for more. so some of this is good on the internet, good on the wall, but not good if trump has to deal with eastern sea board running through the gulf. >> no, and he has to get over the idea to smews the union leaders. what persuades union leaders is rank and file. getting a prosperous economy going and union leaders following suit. they're not going to help him out. they're democrats at heart u most of them. they don't want to be seen too

close to him. he's got to appeal to the rank and file, get over the fact you're going to shmooz the way lbj would with the union leaders and if there's a strike, take the strike and if you get a good legislative package going, you'll overcome any short term damage from the strike. cannot be seen as trying to undermine the integrity of the marketplace, which is what this strike wants to d. we'd be living in cavs without technology. >> it's the cumulative inflation that rates and not going up nearly as much as prices have and that's why you're seeing a lot ovmachinists and a lot of wage concessions and not consist with 2% inflation. and this is something you can't buy your way out. larry: sorry to interrupt. this is another reason they have to get the big package through

before mid year. it'll include the tax cuts and include the deregulation and a lot of growth measures and as rich properly pointed out, i don't know why i'm surprised and supply side growth will curve inflation. lower tax rates and deregulation and more goods on the market, more productivity. >> raise interest rates to kill inflation and you're hurt ago lot of people and getting more expensive and more productivity is good for everyone. larry: have you done your christmas shopping yet? >> i have, yeah. larry: because there's really good bargains on amazon prime. i debility know if you've seen these bargains and one is greenland. the other is panama. and the third one is canada. they're running very cheap. >> we don't want canada. canada would be -- it's like a cold california. high tax and too cold. larry: one click, you can buy it.

how about the panama canal? this is an old issue. >> very old. ronald reagan cut his -- one reason he won the nomination in 1980 was getting the canal back and a hong kong company columbiaed ports at either end and this is a real national security issue. but the president is pro american and that's why we need to work with them. >> make sure the bad guys aren't running the canal. larry: what do you do, china has locks at both ends, atlantic and pacific ends. i don't know enough about the fees and some people say the fees they're charging in the united states are absorbing. china's influence in south america and central america is growing by leaps and bounds and that's a problem. >> that is a problem and start with the defense department examing what are the security implications today of having both ends of the panama canal potentially in hostile hands and

china is now completing a major port in peru to ship goods and going to easily turn into a naval base right in our back ward. monroe doctrine dead under joe biden is revived under donald trump and a who the lot of american continent to work over except for average tee that . larry: one last one, people laugh at green land thing and this came up and i supported this in the first term and trump love it had. greenland rich and rare earth minerals and russia wants to get up there and china wants to get up there. i've got 30 seconds for you. why shouldn't we make a run? why should we ask -- why not ask the green landers what they want to do? >> i couldn't agree more. as steve and rich were saying, we have to stop being patsies for this idea of the inter-fashional rules-based order that was in play for internal revenue international rules-based order that was in play. it's led to misery of many americans in the last 20 years. look for our own best interest and own natural resources.

>> acquired about 40% of territory through such acquisitions. go to amazon. larry: one click on amazon and we own greenland. that's the deal. steve forbes, jason trent, rich lowry, you're all fabulous. happy new year to you all. what should speaker johnson do to succeed? we have breitbart's alex marlow ♪ hi susan, honey? yea. i respect that, but that cough looks pretty bad. try this robitussin honey. the real honey you love, plus the powerful cough relief you need. mind if i root through your trash? robitussin, with real honey & elderberry.

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larry: all right, joining us now, alex marlow, editor in chief at breitbart news, alex, welcome as always. an assist from trump put mike johnson over the line. i vas want to get your take on that. >> yeah, no, this is the take. i was thinking about this because i've not been a huge fan of speaker johnson. he's not a bad guy, he's a good guy, and it's a very hard job. might be the hardest job in all of washington, speaker of the house so you have to have a bit of sympathy for whoever takes that on. i found myself rooting more for trump to win and get what he wanted than for johnson to lose. it's a big congrats to both of them but especially to president trump actually. larry: i think, steve forbes said this in the last segment,

you know, for tram top win with respect to his agenda. border, taxes and so forth, he had to stop and no time touchilily shaly and dawdle around the house leadership thing and trump realized that. >> yeah, he did and he's smart. he gets the stuff and he's been around the block once before as we all know and the hard work gets going and with such a narrow majority, we'll have maybe three bites of the apple with the reconciliation packages and we're going to have to move very quickly if we want to get that wall funded and taxes cut and we want to get some of the investigations going than stuff like j6 kangaroo court and destroyed a bunch of evidence and look into all that, and we'll have to be unified in moving quickly and deliberately across the republican party. larry: yeah no, bites of the apple you'll get ask you know my view. one bite is all they'll get. alex, perhaps, i want to ask you and look at mike johnson.

what does he have to do? what comes up first in your head? what does mike johnson have to do to be a successful speaker. >> yeah, the first thing is get a couple of wins on the board quick and for me that's tax cuts and immigration. get the wall going and get the deportations going and the next thing, which is a very close second is to try to get something where the debt ceiling isn't always looming over trump's agenda and reign in spending and inflatit we're non-go that do that on day one and so if trump has to constantly look over his shoulder for chuck schumer, doggying him about the deficit, that's a big problem too . if johnson can get all those three done right away, he'll be off to a rip roaring start. larry: i think he really has to show meaningful sincere efforts. they have to cut spending. i mean, i want to cut taxes too, but they've got to -- somebody has to cut spending in washington dc. anyway, alex marlow, sorry, flat out of time. thanks for helping very much. folk, i'll be back with my lasth

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larry: so, congrats to speaker johnson, and president trump for a big win today. now, let's go out and save america, with one big beautiful bill to start a blue collar boom! and speaking of saving america, here is elizabeth macdonald. liz: we will try, larry, thank you so much that was a great show. great interview with that hero senator chuck grassley. he's s