because people write about things and i think richard's a friend and doing a great job. but, i always judge businesses that like how they look and are. gap is doing well. i don't know about old navy. those were emotions for the last few years. i don't know. maybe it's a different definition and very standard. liz: we want you always to come on the set. high standard. great to see mickey drexler. that's it for us. mixed market today. lauren: hello, folks. welcome to kudlow. i'm larry kudlow. treasuryman scott bessent joined the ship and they don't like

trump oligarch and senator rand paul here to cut spending and senator mark wayne mullins on democrat policy and first up grady trimble live in washington where he's probably freezing. grady, what's cooking? reporter: the treasury department and scott bessent fending off and trump's plans to implement tariffs and cut government spending and make the 2017 tax cuts permanent. >> if we do not renew and extend then we will be facing an economic calamity and as always, with financial instability, that falls on the middle and working class people. reporter: democrats are accusing bessent for middle and working

class but for the wealthy specifically going after some of trump's guests at inauguration. >> three people on top, mr. musk, mr. bezos and mr. zuckerberg worth almost a trillion dollars, more than half of the bottom of our society. s. >> the three billionaires that you list that had all made the money themselves. reporter: their respective hearings and tram's nominees heading up the interior department and governor doug burgum and epa, lee zeldin, outlined their vision for u.s. energy dominance and it was a busy day for senator bernie sanders who sits on the committee on environment, he grilled lee zeldin over climate change. >> can i have your word right now you'll work with me to make sure that that solar for all

program is rapidly and effectively implemented in >> this is a important priority of you and solar power -- >> sorry. >> that's okay. >> almost saved by the bell. >> that was fossil fuel industry. [ laughter ] >> it was a smooth day overall to jet senator steve danes, tram's nominees so far seem to be batting a thousand. larry: yes, sir, grady trimble, thank you so much. now head over to israel with latest on the ceasefire deal. we welcome back fox news trey yingst live in tel aviv and, trey, what's the scuttlebutt about today or this evening? >> yeah, larry, this time yesterday with the agreement in place and announced by president biden is president elect trump, but this morning we woke up to a statement from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's office saying that hamas went back on their terms and the agreement.

now, hamas denied this and the day went on and we got more information about political in fighting in israel and the national administration threatened to resign from his position in the coalition taking seven seats with him if this deal moves forward. now, it appears the deal eventually will move forward and he'll resign and it'll weaken netanyahu's position in the government and give him a one seat majority in israel aerodynamics version of the parliament. this is all about a gap in reality. what's on the table, and what netanyahu going to sell to the far right coalition. take a listen, earlier today u.s. secretary of state antony blinken spoke about the situation. >> it requires among other things, ending the conflict in gaza, which we are now on the verge of doing as a result of everything that we have put into this. an agreement that president biden put forward, put forward before the world in may after getting the entire world to

endorse. reporter: america's top diplomat saying this is an agreement about ending the war in gaza and israel's prime minister speaking with his own coalition members saying they're going back to fighting hamas inside the strip once the phases of this deal are complete. larry. larry: trey, when, in your judgment, when is the earliest that the hostages can be freed and released? reporter: the earliest is sunday afternoon because even if the deal moves forward, it will have to be voted on by the israeli cab gnat and then there's a 48 hour window for the israeli supreme court to basically hear objections to the agreement and they can shorten that window slightly but looking at sunday afternoon where at least as the earliest time as the initial hostages could come out of gaza given the political in-fighting we're seeing in israel, it's much more likely this takes place on monday on inauguration days. larry. larry: got it.

thanks, trey yingst, thank you very much. scott bessent joinedded other trump nominees with game, set and match over the deputies. that's the subject of the riff. larry: it sure looks like gambler, set and match and democrats threw their best at pete hegseth and got nowhere and trying to bully pam bondi and she bullied them right back scoring knock downs left and right. in general, the tired old left wing democrats have gotten nowhere with their cheap shot attacks during these c cabinet confirmation hearing ands afraid to talk policy and joe biden's progressive social schism a dismal -- socialism is a dismal failure and denial about the crushing loss on november 5. many of them just shrinking away into the night. at this point, it sure looks like all president trump's cabinet noms will be confirmed by the new and energetic republican senators. treasury nominee scott bessent

was so good today in his hearing before the senate finance committee, that democrat members started filing out of the room way before the hearing was over. probably because they didn't have any dirt. couldn't make any personal attacks. of course they don't know anything about economics in the first place. but bessent is an economic whiz. president trump called bessent's appearance a masterful performance, of course it was. bessent is a free market supply cider, who put together a storied performance as top flight investment manager for many years. he's an economic growth guy and limited government guy and a king dollar guy. from his testimony today i'll quote, crith critically we must endure the remains of the world's reserve currency". scott read the riot act on tax cuts by the way, take a listen. >> not renew and extend then we

will be facing an economic calamity and as always with financial instability, that falls on the middle and working class people. we will see a gigantic middle class tax increase. we will see the child tax credit upped and we will see deductions halved and it will be what we call economics that has potential for a sudden stop. larry: there you government a sudden stop potential. scott bessent also understands that president trump's tariff strategy will not be inflationary. he has said only excess money created by the fed or overspending by the federal budget can cause long term inflation. not tariffs. on the question of tariffs in his hearing, here's what he said. >> the american people should think about tariffs in three ways under the trump

administration. one will be for remedying unfair trade practices by industry or country. two, may be for a more generalized tariff as a revenue raiser for the federal budget. and three, president trump, i think has added a third use of tariffs that tariff cspan be used for negotiations. larry: indeed. you order the deal. he also added he intends to work hand in glove with omb and works with the doge brothers to curb federal spending and stop the regulatory state. take a listen on this one. >> we do not have a revenue problem in the united states of america. we have a spending problem that the spend sergeant out of control. spending is out of control. larry: scott bessent understands the need for emergency dominance and unlimited electricity to

power the new economy, and he's always subscribed to president trump's drill, baby, drill mantra. how he angler answered a question -- he answered a question today. >> china will build 100 new coal plants this year. there's not a clean energy race. there's an energy race. larry: indeed. an energy race. his opening statement bessent said that trump was the first president&in modern times to stand up for american workers. he also said "i believe that president trump has a gene generational opportunity to unleash a new, golden age and create more job, wealth, and prosperity for all americans". as i said, game, set, match. and that's the riff. all right, joining us now, we welcome back kentucky senator rand paul, gnat torr paul, welcome shift happy new year.

i haven't seen you since the new year. >> thanks for having me, larra rhode island larry: i want to talk about budgets and what did you think about the scott bessent stuff today? i don't know if you heard any or saw any? >> i met with him in private and heard the hearing. he's impress and i have he has a broad knowledge of economics and he's dead on when you say that inflation is a creation of money by the federal reserve. inflation is a creation and increase in the money the court: if really isn't even so much price. prices is a consequence of inflation. part of a price of goox and attach tariffs or tax to corporations, it can raise the prices and doesn't cause inflation. i think that with regard to whether tariffs are a good thing, you know, if you tell me you want to replace the personal income tax from tariffs, you got my vote. if you're going to add onto what we v i think less tax is bette, frank limit larry: i love that

idea. i don't think we can pull it off, replacing income tax with tariffs. might be worth a shot. but, you know, scott told me on my radio show just after he was nominated on this tariff issue that only excess money causes long term inflation. that was his point. and i'm surprised more people -- you just echo it. i'm surprised more people haven't made that point. wall street is involved in this silly game that tariffs will be inflationary, and i fear the federal reserve think tariffs will be inflationary, and might do even crazier things than the fed usually does. but that's not the issue. that's not the issue. i mean, too much money, chasing too few goods, sure. tariffs, forget about it. >> you have to realize some of these people are also so confused about what inflation is that they think greed causes inflation. and i always laugh at this because it's like oh my goodness, why do these people all of a sudden become greedy now and weren't last year.

it's a ridiculous notion. inflation is a creation of new money. creation of money by the federal reserve and it is, yes, money exceeding demand. larry: i had so many great interview withs your dad on this subject back on another network that i won't have to mention, but it's good to have you here. senator paul, let me play you some sound from russ vote, the incoming director of the office of management and budget in his confirmation hearings yesterday. take a listen, please. >> the president has promised the american people a federal government that works for all americans, not the interest of bureaucrats and we have $36 trillion in debt and fiscal house continues to be a mess. we're now in a situation where it's surpassing what we spend on defense and we have to put forward budgets and spending plans as a budget process needs to work again. larry: so i gather you support

russ vough and had your own idea on deficits and debt? >> we need to cut spending and going to start with a benchmark of spend what comes in. yeah, there's a lot of things we might be able to cut like $400,000 for studying whether lonely rats use more cocaine than well accustomed socialized rats. whether japanese quail on cocaine are more sexually per miscuous and there's a few things we might be able to cut, larry. larry: few things. we're running deficits, $2 trillion year. about 7% of gdp, mr. bessent said in his hearing and that's unten and will you've said you're saying this once again and interest expense now exceeds our defense budget and is rising by leaps and bounds. so we have a bit of a fiscal emergency i would say. here's my first question to you on this subject though. we know we have to cut spending,

if mr. trump comes in, if there's money that was appropriated but unspent, i'm thinking there's still covid money and the misnamed inflation reduction act money. there's some of that chips bill money. if money was appropriated but nowitzki not yet spent and we're in a fiscal spending emergency of sorts. why couldn't it just be removed by the president? just don't spend it. >> well, there's a way to do it and it's called rescission. in the first trump administration, they sent $15 billion back to us. a very small amount and, y i voted for it enthusiastically and lost two republicans that voted with the democrats, and we were unable to cut $15 billion. realistically, the trump administration, if they could get 50 republicans, myself and 49 others, in the senate, we should be able to cut 500 billion. i promise you, if you put someone like elon or vivek

looking at every ratchet, screw, hammer, and wrench, there's all kinds of money and look at entitlements and everything. the military has to be looked at. if you send it back to us, we need votes and courage. people have to realize, ultimately this takes congress and cannot be done by the executive bran and have it'll take congress. that's not an excuse. that means everybody in the land should be calling your congressman saying i i'm watching you. if you don't cut, we're bringing you home. larry: but i take it also again from russ vote's hearing and more, let me ask you this, if the president thinks he can achieve the gold goals of congress with a cheaper spend out rate for example, i don't know if i'm putting that the way i want to, if it's just cheap

tore do what everybody wants him to do, that might be true and i don't know if it's infrastructure or impound the rest? if he can save money by getting the same missions done, more cheaply, why not impound them. as people have said, a couple hundred years we had impoundment authority and only from the mid nixon '70s that it was removed. >> right, i have a couple of questions and first, if you impound the money, where does it go? is it still already spent but sitting in the account or is it not really spent and still sitting in the treasury. do you not draw it? that would make a difference to me and i'm open to hearing arguments. in general though, the principle that congress controls the power of the purse and spends the money and the president e cutes that spending, it's a very important principal and haven't had a lot of discussion in contemporary times or in a long time about not spending. it's a good debate to have about not spending money. i'm open to listening about it,

but i'm not exactly sure where the money goes if it's impounded and is it already september and do you know the answer and -- spent and in limbo and un-crete and i have where's the money? if it saves men, there's a possibility that impoundment sits and doesn't spend if it doesn't necessarily save money. i'm all for saving money and i'll be open to listening to the arguments on impoundment but rescission actually involving congress and the cut cspan be done simply with republicans and it cannot be filib filibusteredd it's a privileged vote rescissions the way ultimately that will not be challenged and no court challenge and no legal challenge and rescission is perfectly legal. take as simple majority and we ought to get a republican to cut spending and if not, they ought to be sent home. larry: you're right on all accounts. one last one on impanelment stuff, where does the money go? senator paul, i just pushed the relief button. that's all. i wouldn't send to the next

year. delete. we're not spending. that's all. we won't ask fed or treasury to borrow and we won't ask the fed to monetize it. i just hit the delete button and, you know that delete button could be a couple of trillion dollars. believe it or not. >> we have to look into that. i'm open minded but i want to find out for certain where the money goes and there'll be legal challenges though and i've talked to legal experts that say the lower court ifs they decide with the current law will decide against the administration on impoundment and probably the only way to have impoundment legal and getting to the supreme court precedent, and there's a possibly it gets revisited but it's an issue that has to be -- i need to explore more thoroughly and know what happens to the money and rescission works and it's legal, and it really is what the public should hear is call your representative, tell them to balance the budget or you're coming home. we're bringing you home if you can't vote to cut spending. larry: i'm with you. 100%. senator rand paul, thank you,

sean: as always. >> thank you. larry: you bet. all right, folks, coming up on kudlow as i said, really was game, set, match for treasury man scott bessent and diving into it with david asman, steve moore when kudlow returns. stick with us, folk. ♪ i have type 2 diabetes, but i manage it well. ♪ ♪ it's a little pill with a big story to tell. ♪ ♪ i take once-daily jardiance... ♪ ♪ ...at each day's start. ♪

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>> this affordability stems from the great inflation from the 2021 and inflation is one of the great killers for working families. larry: talking about scott bessent and business anchor a anding for coauthor of the trump great miracle and going to hit all the right spots and going for them wants budget cuts and walking through tariffs very well and cogently and

understands that we can't have inflation rising or prices can't rise faster than wages and accident ere, i mean, i was told by somebody that democrats couldn't anything on them and walking out of the hearing and finance committee before the hearing was over and in gentian the democrats are defeated on this nominate battle. game, set, match hawaii do you think, steve moore? >> couldn't agree more. it was a virtue-o-so performance and didn't lay a glove on me and these are all got ya moments and look -- got cha moments and we were friends with them and fantastic guy and financial wizard but kind of new to the game of politics and fact this is a contact sport. but they could not lay a glove on them, they tried but calm, i loved his demeanor. overriding theme was perfect and

we've got to pass the trump tax cut extension or have a economic crisis and average family will pay $3,000 more tax as year and stick with that message. >> no, they're waiting for republicans in congress to work that out. >> he said i saw a couple of people i awarded the medal of freedom to and that shut up bernie but i'm sorry. larry: you're in favor of one, big, beautiful bill. >> of course. larry: may not get the tax cuts soon and may not get them at all. not getting tax cuts soon and not getting blue collar boom this year. >> we will have one of the biggest tax increases ever and as we found out the left wing tax policy center said that 65% of americans got a tax cut with

the 2017 comble and made it just by the skin of your teeth. i mean, it was right before 2018. larry: don't look at me. i wasn't there. >> it would be more -- it would be closer this time than it was the last time and the last time it almost bled over for the tax increase. >> same thing with reagan. larry: i didn't go into the government till 2018. i'm clean on that. larry: they want tafanely raise taxes and salt deduction and state and local and isn't it really, did they want to raise the corporate tax rate? i'm reading the politico article and you have to clarify this. asman befuddled by this and very confused and politico article

says the house freedom caucus would end the state and local deductions for corporations in new york, new jersey and california or connecticut or something. just for a few states. is that what they were saying and first of all can't just design tax cuts and that's silly. is there more to this story than that? >> what the house conservatives are saying, if we're going to raise the deduction level on the state and local tax, which they may have to do to get the votes they need in the house, then lest pay for that by -- let's pay for that by put ago cap on the corporate salt deduction. i'm in favor of that and i think it's a brilliant idea. i dent know how you feel about it and why should general motors get a tax cut on the state and local taxes but not little auto

repair shop? the problems we face, guys, i want to sound alarm on that and number of republicans and david and i recollects talk about this in the house and talking actively about raising the corporate tax rate to 23 or 24 or 25%. remember, at 21% now, that's a terrible idea. larry: republicans -- republicans want to do that? >> yes. larry: david asman, how did corporate revenues do after the last tax cut? >> they are up from 2018 when the full tax cut kicked in, they are up 158%. that's how much more tax revenue we are getting now. it was 205 billion we were getting in 2018. 2024, it's now 530 billion. that is a 158% increase if it ain't broke, you don't fix it. larry: the point is that supply side, maybe we have to add

therapy sessions for them and it's on the -- i didn't say confession but therapy. lower the corporate tax rate and if you tax something less, you get more of it and that includes revenues as mr. asman noted from the actual facts. why don't we understand that? that's the battle and that chart, that chart should be passed around the luck and they should cut spending and rescind spending and cut spending and even rand paul, he was even open to presidential executive power and free executive orders to cut spending. >> well, first of all, we are going to ping that chart all over capitol hill, even to the deputies.

the three of us lived through the reagan era and we saw what happened when rates were cut and dramatic rate cuts under reagan and more revenue and economic boom. a lot of guys don't know it's hard and going to reeducate them and scott bessent going to cut tacks and more revenue. larry: thank you david asman and steven moore. coming up, president trump and the most popular he's ever been and his nominees sailing through. what does that tell you about democrats? we'll talk about it with all star panel emily compagno, liz peek, erica donalds. monday, we'll be broadcasting live from washington dc for inauguration day, and i'm going to freeze my ewe know what off, but my saintly wife has got me long underwear so maybe it won't be so gad. i'll be right back. i'm thinking... (speaking to self) about our honeymoon. what about africa? safari?

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larry: president trump most popular he's ever been. 52% right now. back in 2017, it was only 37%. hot sure that's exactly right. we have liz peek and fox news contributor,er kansas city chiefs donalds from -- erika donalds from america first institute and emily compagno from outnumbered and author of under his wings. first thing, whatever the numbers are, trump is very popular, and his noms are, i think, skating through or sailing through. they could -- they had people -- scott bessent was so good today, democrats were leaving the hearing room well before the hearing was over; right, because they didn't have any dirt on them, which is all they ever do. he's skating through and threw their best stuff at hegseth and he went by. threw best at pam bondi and she slammed them right back. there was medical triage on that. emily, starting with you on

that, trump, height of popularity and great numbers and noms are sailing through and democrats are slinking off into the night. >> couple with president biden's lower approval rating and lowest in his presidency and exit farewell speech last night that read like a to do list without any nod to an actually actionable item he'd accomplished as commander in chief. no mention of covid or the disastrous withdrawal in afghanistan. so to that point, i think everyone is seeing the fortunes are changing and tide is turning, and fact that president biden had the nerve to say is that a joke when asked about the hamas-israel peace deal and whether president trump deserves any credit for that shows how absolutely out of touch they are, and shows the hubris he continues to cling to and defensiveness he continues to cling to and jill biden saying i've discovered human nature and betrayal of nancy pelosi. simply they put party over person, which i wish biden had

done years ago. larry: liz, you didn't think much of biden's speech. i myself didn't see it i must say. >> shocking. it was so self-reverential. all platitudes and i never have liked biden's speeches and they're full of puff reigns leading and never mean -- puffery and never mean anything and what is he even talking about and last night was weird and getting into the whole thing of the oligarchs and that's what we have to be afraid of. he's afraid of so many things, that it's hard to remember. we're afraid of climate change and really afraid of elon musk, that's what it comes down to and the fact that the whole tech mien community rallied around donald trump. larry: there ewe go. >> it's an astonishing moment. larry: he's freaked out because techies are leaving the democratic party and moving to trump, led by elon musk, that's exactly right.

erika, on the oligarch statement and i like billionaires and like to create far more billionaires than america has today but he gave the presidential medal of freedom, this is the kind of hypocrite he is, he gave the presidential medal of freedom to two oligarchs, one is george soros and the other david rubinstein and he recollects he's a darn hypocrite and his speech writer haves already left the building i think. that's my hunch. really, this was -- it was bad and content is always bad and he always lies and he's a hypocrite, but even the speech writers have left him. >> it wasn't the only hypocrisy we heard from joe biden. he said that social media gave up on fact checking. lest we forget it's not the fact checking they gave up on, it's the government fact ch checks ad elimination of free speech

they've given up on thankfully and the polls show that americans trust what x is doing and what meta is turning to more than they trust the fact checkers for good reason and joe biden and his administration suppressing free speech and contrast that with what president trump was doing and he's giving press conferences and talking to the american people and transparent about what he's doing and appointed and wonderful nominees and going very well and he's continuing past the campaign to do what got him elected and transport with the american people and little american people do what he was doing and how and who's going to be doing it and he's opening himself up to all of the people coming to mar-a-lago from around the world ask country, and bringing them into the fold. for the golden age of america that's coming next month. larry: i love that tip.

by the way, scott bessent use that had term on the economy. emily, it's also still personal stuff and basically uncorroborated and anonymous sources and pete hegseth passed and i think to some extent that deflated what i saw as a coordinated democratic attempt to take his, chop his head off first and go down the line like dominoes and chop and failed on hegseth and too much good policy on new foreign policy on the recruitment on getting rid of woke defense department. then i think pam bondi basically finished off the democrats and she delivered the final punch and was kind of like a third round tko is the way i saw it. >> i love that . i love that color commentary and i totally agree and pete hegseth was absolutely phenomenal and i

don't think i've ever seen frankly such a resounding victorious slate as we d. to your point, he was armed with facts and incredible communicative skills and he stuck to his point and his talking points and did not deviate so when you read those transcripts in black and white, there's no fluff, there's no rattling that went on between the two and that's why the democrats i think the mask was revealed as to how vapid and really below the belt their attacks were. yes, it deflated them and emboldened as well the other nominees. we've known tomorrow it was rescheduled for 9:00 a.m. and they'll try their best with her. perhaps a weak resurrection zombie-style of personal attacks and dog situation and they'll attempt and they're all going to succeed with flying colors and going back to arguably the strategy of matt gaetz because he was the largest bates beast they were going to attempt to take down and with him gone, it became pete. >> really have to ask yourself though, is this helping the democrats to have this

unbelievably nasty personal attacks on pete hegseth? larry: i don't mean to interrupt, i love this, said it last evening, the average viewer, if anybody is following these things more than we are and afternoon viewers are hard and what do they think? what about policy and what about americans and going with our defense and security and our boarder and our economic growth skin fellation. what are you doing about this and failing audits every year at the pentagon and instead of all this woke stuff i feel like they're out of step with what american people want right now. larry: since the death of woke and personal attacks you have to ask yourself and won't talk about them and they're in denial about that. coming for the confirmation and personal attacks and phony personal attacks die and not

doing any favors. >> also they're doing them with republicans that may have been on the fence with confirming these candidates and how would it look and former people to align themselves with the democrats after the ridiculous show that they put on. regardless of want we want the american people to do and expose the nonsense and they've puckered the other republicans onto the side of confirmation and that's what's going to solidify the nominations. larry: i think they sure buried woke. thanks democrats. thank you all, very great stuff, liz peek, erica erika donalds d emily compagno. catch her at 12:00 p.m. eastern on fox news. coming up on kudlow, talking to senator markwayne mullens about democraticypocrisy and

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>> i guess i better use the center for virginia and bring up the fact and what if you showed up drunk to your job?

senator haves showed up drunk to vote at night? have any of you guys asked them to step down and resign from their job? don't tell me you haven't seen it because i know you have. how many senator haves got a divorce for cheating on their wives? did you ask them to step down? it's so ridiculous that you guys hold yourself to this higher standard and forget you have a big plank in your eye. we've all made mistakes. i've made mistakes and, jennifer, thank you for loving him through that mistake. because only reason why i'm here and not in prison is because my wife loved me too. larry: just love that. love that little lesson that was taught by oklahoma senator markwayne mullin and he's here joining us now. thank you for that. people everywhere have talked about what you said. i'm part of the club, my saintly

wife kept me from jail or worse about three decades ago and i've talked about it publicly from time to time. but essentially she gave a lot of hypocrites pretty good spanking. pretty good spanking, sir. >> i'm the last one to talk about being on moral high ground. i'm not a great guy and never discussed i was but you see jennifer who he calls jenny, every time i use jenny i feel like i'm talking to forest gump. but you see jennifer, sitting behind him and watching her husband that she knows the faults that he had and loved him through it and they've been able to work out their differences and they've been together and have a p-year-old child togethed together and sitting there watching her husband get absolute aidoo structure and support nated from -- absolutely assassinated from individuals that are no better than us. if that was any wife, christie,

sitting behind me she'd want someone to step up and defend me the same way. it was just -- it was frustrating to me and didn't need to be said, and it took a lot of the -- i don't want to say the steam out of the room but a lot of personal attacks out of the room. larry: i think it took the steam out of it. it was a great thing you did here, they gave an excellent policy issue and he took the high road and he's a brilliant guy and those of us that know him here and he's been on this set and on this show and his f&f show over the weekend. the republican nominations, the trump nominations are doing very, very well. i mean, hegseth to some extent pam bondi, really i think just put everybody on the high road

and it looks like it's been 100% passage. what's it like now? >> absolutely. pete hegseth the way he sat there and took oncoming fire, it was calm, collective, and cool headed through the process will tell you what type of leader he is first of all. it was president trump that said let's go with pete first. somebody was saying let's go with rubio, let's go with ratcliffe, let's get wins behind and yous build momentum before we bring pete up and to trump's fashion, he's like no, we're going right into this. we're bringing pete up first and i'm completely confident he'll handle himself under fire. we're going to win this vote, and then everybody else will sail through. he was absolutely right. that's why president trump has been able to get elected twice in office because the guy is strategically smart and he knows where to apply pressure. he's going to be right. larry: senator mark wayne mullin, see you soon, sire. thank you ever so much. appreciate it.

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