up four or five bps from the third quarter, and we're going into the next year with a lot of confidence because of the hedging and activities along with the new volume of lending and fee business that in some cases already in the pipeline for the first quarter. liz: steven? congrats and we'll watch what happens in the next year with you and your bank and the entire sector of regional. we appreciate you coming on here comes the closing bell on this friday. >> [closing bell ringing] liz: all of the major indices will close higher, we've got green on the screen right now. remember monday will be right here with all of the inauguration festivities. we'll see you then. david: hello, everyone welcome to a special edition of kudlow. i'm david asman in for larry kudlow. well, the countdown to inauguration day, we are just three days away from president trump's return to the white house, and his nominees are just sailing right through their confirmation hearings while

the president-elect is reportedly preparing a slew of executive orders on the very first day. that be monday. so, what will day one look like for americans and are democrats going to play ball at all with president trump this time around? we'll be talking about that and much more with texas congressman wesley hunt but first our edward lawrence is live at the white house with the details of what they are preparing for. it's a lot, edward. reporter: and it is. and its all been thrown up in the air. present trump says it'll all be inside and the last time the swearing in was inside the u.s. capitol was in 1985 the second reagan term. now the reason its moving inside, also the capitol parade, the presidential parade will be inside capitol one. last time that we had a swearing in inside the capitol, again 1985. it's all because it's going to be 24 degrees here in washington d.c. on monday with a low of 9, after one to three inches of snow. now on monday it's going to be very busy as you talked about.

there's a lot of flurry of transition flurry of activity in terms of the executive orders and that comes with multiple executive actions and all equal about 100. listen. >> on day one president trump will take many actions to undo all of the disturbing orders that joe biden signed on his first day in office, but none of this should come as a surprise. reporter: so some executive orders big ones on the border to stop illegal migration, repeal the ev mandates and open up oil and natural gas leases. we also expect tiktok. the current u.s. ambassador to china, nick burns, for the next hour says the chinese communist party uses tiktok to gather information. >> so one of the points of competition between the u.s. and china is this battle for ideas and obviously we stand up for human freedom, our bill of rights, and i think tiktok is involved in that, because any

chinese company ultimately answers to the government of china. that's not true in the united states. it shouldn't be and it's not but it's true in china. reporter: as tiktok now threatened other apps are starting to rise so you see this , is this a strategy by the chinese communist party? >> i do think it is a strategy. china is a very significant global power. they want to overtake the united states and they want to diminish us. reporter: telling me that the president will not take any action on tiktok on sunday, whether it's going dark, because it's a sunday, he's going to punt that decision to president-elect donald trump. the president-elect says he will review the supreme court decision to make a decision. david: edward thank you very much for that. now let's head over to israel for the very latest on the cease-fire and hostage deal with hamas. fox news senior correspondent mike tobin is live in tel aviv with the latest. mike? reporter: david, israel's cabinet has now had this issue to vote on for about five hours,

a particularly long cabinet meeting, not necessarily because there's opposition but what we're being told is that each of the cabinet ministers is being able to vote on this cease-fire deal and being able to speak given the opportunity to speak on this cease-fire deal. it's a historic moment so each has something to say so it's taking a long time to get through this but after some bumps and delays, it's unlikely that any of the cabinet ministers are going to oppose it, at this point, although there is some opposition from within. but the train is on the tracks as expected and that means sunday, just after noon, we'll start to see phase i of this cease-fire deal go into effect. it begins with a 40 day, 42 day cease-fire meaning the guns go quiet and also starts with hostage prisoner exchange beginning with three to four israeli women who will be released from hamas captivity on the first day, ultimately you'll see some 33 israeli hostages released over this 42-day

period. that includes women, females soldiers, children, and men over 50. now, in exchange, 1,000 palestinians are supposed to be released from israeli jails. if you look at the exchange rate, it works out to one israeli for 30 palestinian prisoners, or if you're talking about israeli soldiers, it's 50 palestinian prisoners for every israeli soldier. also, in phase i, the a trucks start rolling in at the rate of 600 per day into the gaza strip. phase ii involves releasing the male israeli soldiers. phase iii involves exchanging the dead and ultimately the reconstruction of gaza. now netanyahu does have some political opposition to his cease-fire. in fact the hard right party have promised to leave the governing coalition if it passes. that doesn't put netanyahu at jeopardy for his hold on power. he will still maintain a thin majority and there are two left wing parties that promise to join his coalition in the event

he's in trouble for the purpose of getting the cease-fire to go through. david: there's a lot of thin majority all over the world right now including here in our country. mike tobin, thank you so much appreciate it. stay safe. now, for all of these topics and more, let's bring in texas congressman westley hunt. congressman great to see you thank you for being here. i want to first talk about these hearings that have been happening this week. today, we had one which in my mind sounded a lot different from the previous ones, particularly today was governor kristi noem the nominee for department of homeland security but we had pam bondi and pete hegseth in which you had democrats throwing hard balls but getting them thrown right back at them. i just want to play a montage of some of what happened to get your reaction. roll it. >> you're quite sure that every general who serves should not go directly into the defense industry for 10 years, you're not willing to make that same

pledge? >> i'm not a general, senator. >> [laughter] >> it would not be appropriate for a prosecutor to start with a name and look for a crime. it's a prosecutor's job to start with a crime and look for a name, correct? >> senator? i think that is the whole problem with the weaponization that we have seen in the last four years. >> are you aware of any factual basis to investigate liz cheney? yes or no. >> senator? that's a hypothetical and i'm not going to answer that. >> the president has called for this -- >> you should be worried about the crime rate in california right now is through the roof. david: congressman, do they realize what just hit them? every one of those shots was thrown right back at them much harder. >> well this is why president trump made these picks. that was the mandate given to president trump by the american people, and his cabinet selections have been nothing short of outstanding.

i think pete hegseth handled himself perfectly. i think pam bondi did an outstanding job. i think marco rubio did an outstanding job. and again, we were told by the american public that we do not want business as usual in washington and in these that's exactly what we're seeing. we're seeing nontraditional candidates getting the america-first agenda through just like the american people voted for and brilliantly president trump chose outstanding candidates. david: what's interesting is the hard ball they were playing during the election campaign, they were warned by some people to be more cooperative and mean what you say when you talk about uniting the country instead of calling everybody they don't like a nazi. they hadn't gotten off at the beginning of the week, but today, by the time they got to kristi noem it seemed they realized they made a mistake earlier in the week. do you get that? >> they have been making mistakes for the past four years. my father would always tell me

it's all good and fun until the rabbit got the gun and right now the american public elected the rabbit and now it's our turn, it's how this system works and why the american public is fed up with what we've seen, fed up with the lawfare and president trump has picked cabinet positions that are going to execute exactly what the american people wanted. i am so pleased and happy for the next coming days and i can't wait for monday to get here fast enough, sir. david: again i'm just kind of wondering if democrats are realizing the mistake that they made earlier in the week, pulling back on kristi noem, being more cooperative, and what happens next week? the president is going to come in the very first day with dozens and dozens maybe over a hundred executive orders on all kinds of things involving the border, involving crime, involving of course energy. are democrats going to continue to be, try to be obstructionists or might they be willing to play ball realizing it doesn't work for them politically?

>> well it's in their nature to be obstructionists, but the american public gave us a republican president, senate and republican house and just like you said on day one, president trump is going to overturn all these disasters of these executive orders that were signed in by joe biden to get our country right. we want to make sure we have border security. we want our economy back. we want to feel safer. we want to unleash american energy. we want to make sure we are respected on the global scale. all this is going to happen within the next few weeks, actually its been happening the last few months since president trump got elected because the world is bracing for impact for a strong america to come back again. to answer your question, sir, no they aren't going to stop. they are inherently obstructionists, but that's okay because the american public had their say and we operate accordingly for the next few years. david: my master sergeant son tells me don't call me, sir, i work for a living so please call me david. >> [laughter] david: i know you'll appreciate that. on the border issue, though, clearly, clearly, the democrats

must realize that americans overwhelmingly, it's not just by 51%, but by 70% trust trump over the democrats on border issues. won't they be a little more willing to be cooperative on border issues? >> we're going to find out but at the end of the day, they don't have a choice. president trump once his election because of the economy and because of the border. i'm in houston, texas. we've seen 20 million people enter this country illegally through our borders. we watched crime sky rocket and so they lost this election. they lost the black male vote in texas. we got 34% of the black male vote in texas so they can't play that card. again, this is a mandate given to him by the american people. it's going to be signed via executive by president trump on day one and i'm glad to see it. i hope they play ball with us. i hope they understand what the american people are saying but again, i don't expect it to happen and we don't need them as long as we stick together and execute president trump's agenda. david: another thing happening on day one whether it's

coincidence or divine intervention whatever, you have the tiktok thing and you have the hamas-israeli deal, whether that's going to happen or not, there's still questions about whether it's going to map from the israeli side or the hamas side. what do you make of that? by the way i should mention, everybody i know and you've served in the middle east, they say when there's a cease-fire of any kind, the terrorists use a cease-fire to regroup. they aren't interested in peace. they are interested in regrouping and fighting again. it's clearly the israelis know that and i'm pretty sure that the trump team understands that even if the biden team didn't. so how do you deal with that issue? >> this is actually reminiscent of the hand off from carter to reagan. people realize that strength is back so fighting and business as usual if you seen it in the middle east comes to an abrupt end because president trump is back in office but you're correct. somebody that's served and lived in saudi arabia for two years, deployed to iraq, i understand that those people that still want to harm the world will regroup during this time and

that's why peace through strength is so important. that's why marco rubio's role is so important to make sure we keep our finger on the scales because we can't allow these people to strengthen even during a time of cease-fire because they are only going to wait for president trump to leave before they attack again so this is about making sure generations to follow have the same security that we're going to have under president trump in the next four years. david: of course it's all about the mothership of terrorists and that's iran. quite literally in the red sea, et cetera. they operate as the not only the money backers of these terrorist groups whether it's the huthis or hamas or hezbollah but they also give them help in terms of extra spying activities, et cetera. will we go back immediately under donald trump to maximum pressure where we squeeze the iranians economically and possibly doing something about those nukes they have been trying to come up with. >> well, keep in mind when president trump was president last time iran was broke. they couldn't afford to fund

terror all over the world. so again, the strength is back. they are well aware of that and they know it's going to happen. president trump is going to unleash american energy and unless these rogue nations that have an agenda not just against the united states but also our allies but what we have to do is codify the strength after president trump is gone. we know we'll have peace in the middle east. we know we're going to have peace through strength. we know the world is going to line up immediately after monday, but then what happens after that? that's going to be a task that we are certainly up for but it's going to be with the help of president trump, his wonderful cabinet picks and also the congress and of course the senate to make sure we can continue this growth and continue the strength. david: and the help from israel. finally israel and the united states will be locked together, not only diplomatically but also militarily. very quick final question about tiktok. we know president trump spoke to president xi and announced that on truth social, said they

actually talked about tiktok. are you okay with re-opening that law that now the supreme court codified today that said that you can't have tiktok in the u.s. if they don't sell it. >> well i'm in favor of free speech. just like elon musk did with x. that's a free speech platform and i want to see more of that. but also we have to make sure that the communist chinese party doesn't spy on us arbitrarily so they are going to have to have a piece of their business to those individuals that want to purchase it from the u.s. i hope we get to that point. if the supreme court held it up i certainly support it but also, i want to see tiktok continue because it did very well not just for me but for president trump and this last election. the issue is stopping china from spying on us and we can walk into government at the same time. david: it's amazing how all these things are happening. literally on day one of trump's watch as president. congressman wonderful to see you thank you so much for being here appreciate it. coming up, trump's nominees say they are ready to drill baby

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david: so is drill baby drill going to be the easiest promise for donald trump to keep? joining us now is freshman senator and former navy seal, tim sheehey from the energy-rich state of montana. what a gorgeous state you live in, sir. i've gotta tell you, it's a great place to be. i just want to play for you a sound bite from the energy secretary nominee chris wright, about his plan for getting us back on track in energy and get your reaction. roll it. >> i see three immediate tasks where i'll focus my attention if i get the privilege of being confirmed. the first is to un dease american energy at home and abroad to restore energy dominance. the security of our nation begins with energy. we must expand energy production, including commercial nuclear and liquefied natural gas and cut the cost of energy for americans. david: so senator? is there a single republican, either in the house or in

the senate, who has any problems with those plans? >> well if there has i haven't met them and i think i've known chris for years he's a fantastic pick for this position one of the smartest guys i know and as you heard him say drill baby drill is critical but not just about oil & gas. nuclear is key, all forms of energy are key because energy dominance is absolutely critical for america in the 21st sents are. energy security is national security and chris understands that and will do a great job. david: he's really a pioneer in fracking in a whole range of issues involving fossil fuels but the point is, and i think you just made it in a nutshell but the point is, this world, not just the united states, the whole world needs an enormous amount of energy. much more than we thought 10 years ago and we're not going to get it from windmills and solar energy, right? >> and it's not that we need it now. it's that we're going to need exponentially moreover the next decade. a simple google search versus simple chatgpt function, i'm

told it's about 10x the amount of energy consumption for an a.i. function. look at all of the data centers and all of the a.i. computing we'll have to do. power needs will spike and a fashion and we'll need exponentially more energy, with all of the above approach and you're right. solar panels and wind t turbines aren't the answer. david: the europeans are desperate for our natural gas. that's why that essentially ban that the biden administration had on lng was killing the europeans, and even the chinese get it and this was the point that scott bessent, he's the nominee for treasury secretary. they tried to get him. i think it was ron widen tried to get him on out the chinese are eating our luncheon green energy. here is his response to that. listen. >> china will build a hundred new coal plants this year. there is not a clean energy race. there's an energy race. david: he gets it. you can't argue with that. it's just a fact, right? >> you can argue with it when

you look at what the bidens have been doing. the biden administration as we speak is trying to shut down the largest source of cheap base load power in montana. they are literally trying to strangle our energy dominance and scott is right. there's an energy race. china doesn't care if it's clean nor dirty so we need to be in front of that race. it's a national security priority. david: essentially we have a new administration that believes in the real-world. the last administration believed in this construct that they made of the world that they wanted but it had nothing to do with the real-world and frankly, the real-world is beginning to get fed up with those constructs, and so whatever happened. it's just, it's nice to have people who believe in reality at the helm. >> and david, that's what america-first means and i think america-first gets called its isolation and some national, it's not. what america-first is what you just described. it's a realistic interpretation that we live in a competitive

global marketplace from national security to economics and it's not too much to ask for the american people to say, i want my government to put my interests before those of other countries. we should put the american border first and the american economy first, the american worker first. that's what america first means and nowhere is that more evident than our energy policy. david: senator, there's another reality that even some republicans have trouble facing and that's the reality of if you cut tax rates generally speaking, you generate enough economic activity so you actually have more tax revenue as a result of that. it happened during when jfk did it, when ronald reagan did it and when trump did it in the first term and some republicans just are saying no, if you want to extend the tax cuts, you actually have to get revenue from other places. this will cost a trillion or 2 trillion or even 4 trillion i've heard, but it didn't. in fact, not only did we get more revenue from the whole thing. we increased revenue 48% from

2017 to now. that's an extra $1.5 trillion but just on the corporate side, the corporate rate went down from 35% down to 21% and we have increased our revenue, our tax revenue just from the corporate side by 158%. why don't some republicans who are now saying if you want to extend the corporate tax cuts you have to pay for it. we don't. it paid for itself three times over. >> you're absolutely right david and that's because there's not enough people in this building that i'm standing in right now who used to be business people and own and operate businesses and understand what government over reach does to businesses and i have a fundamental ethical issue with going to the american people, whether it's rich or poor, businesses, llc's or anything saying i'm going to take more of your money to make up for the failures of our inability to balance our budget. i have a fundamental moral issue. we are failing at balancing our budget, running the government

competently to go to our people, our hard working americans, who work everyday to make a paycheck and tell them we're going to take more of their money to make up for our incompetence. i refuse to do that. growing our way out of the fiscal crisis is the best way to do it, eliminating waste, having efficiency into our government and accountability fiscal accountability into our government. david: are you with trump on one big beautiful bill to have those tax extensions right in the first bill? >> what i've told anybody that asked me is one bill, two bills 10 bills i don't care. let's get it done and -- david: if it's 10 bills, it won't get done in 2025 and that means taxes will go up for everybody. >> yeah, of course, but the reality is one bill is where we're going to end up and what speaker johnson and the president are coalescing around. david: you got into the doge business when you talked about expenses and that's what the deficit is all about, spending too much money. the department of education, i

used to be a teacher. the department of education, the more they involve themselves in what i was doing and a school of public school in chicago, the worst things got and we see from test scores. the more money the more billions we throw at the department of education, the lower test scores go. do you agree, and ramaswamy has said this before, that maybe we be better off without the department of ed. >> absolutely in fact i said it through my campaign. i was attacked through the campaign by saying the department of education is a broken sclerotic bureaucracy that isn't accurate it executing its mission. we're spending more on education than we ever have before but for some reason test scores are going down and unfortunately that's what our government does. spending more on healthcare and homelessness and the more money we throw at problems, they get worse. david: it happens all the time. by the way, congratulations the senate moved your co-sponsor of the laken riley act. the senate moved that. it might be the first bill that president trump signs into

existence. no? >> i think it is and you know the progress we've made in the last two weeks, this is my only two weeks here so i don't have a great frame of reference but the energy is great. we've gotten 12 cabinet nominees through hearings and i think the laken riley act is the first piece of legislation this congress passed. nothing is more important. david: absolutely congratulations. it's a great first thing for you to do as senator. wonderful to see you here, great to see you appreciate you being here. >> thanks. david: trump's nominees as we were just talking sailed through their hearings and the president-elect has so much political capital now, so exactly how is he going to exercise it? we'll ask mark simone and joe concha right here on set coming next. what do a neurosurgeon, a country artist, and a television & radio host have in common? they all saw the writing on the wall. big bank sharing your financial information with big government. join them as owners in old glory bank -

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the second trump term. joining me is mark simone and joe concha, fox news contributor and author of the greatest comeback ever. guess who that was? mark, joe, good to see you. joe the democrats attempted to play hard ball. almost like they threw this frisbee out in the air, it came back and hit them in the face. it was a boomerang and they just didn't get it until the end of the week and you saw them laid back a little bit on gove governor kristi noem today. >> they are seeing reaction to it. you can't go nuclear on every nominee and you're throwing these, boxing analogies, and nothing is landing. pete hegseth was supposed to be the toughest nominee to get through and once pete crushed it, and they couldn't lay a glove on him, from there,

it feels like all of these picks by trump have the wind at their back and trump was so smart to name them early. david: that's it. >> right after the election when the media obviously avalanche came and by the time we got here it's like okay. well -- david: mark, we saw the first term has management style but he revealed a little bit about his management style because at first, he picked pete, and then, wasn't sure whether pete was going to go as whole hog as he needed to, to win this thing and he kind of lit some things slip out that maybe was interested in desantis, went to the army navy game with him, trump did, and then, he sat back and just watched, and pete rose to the occasion and trump is a show me kind of manager right? >> he knows how to do good cop bad cop and flood the zone and as far as pete hegseth the guy has been in two war zones and won't flinch and then he spent years on television as the best

debater, with senators trying to debate professional tv people. >> i also noticed, at one point i was writing a column and i had the hearings on but the sound off. once in a while i glanced up. when you look at the juxtaposition without audio, how young trump's nominees look for the most part. pam bondi is almost 60? in what world? that's amazing. david: look at governor kristi noem today. i don't know a democrat like her. >> marco rubio on the other side you have a dick durbin, and dems look old and supposed to be the cool hip party. david: a dusty dick durbin. so how does trump, he's got political capital, he had political capital going into these nominations and now more of it. how does he use it on day one? >> you've got to improve on the current situation, and so far it's not set very high. it's going to be the border closing, inflation, bring that

down, energy, drilling, all that stuff. david: does this make it easier for him to get his one big bill in the reconciliation package? >> i'm not an expert in this. some argue it's too complicated at once, too much spending but nobody can bob better than trump. david: what do you think does he have the capital to push threw what he wants? >> he has the capital. does he have the margins in the house. when you have three votes, three stray and we've seen that happen before, then that's a problem but there's no house speaker out there that can magically get all these cats but as we've seen so far, trump wanted mike johnson he got mike johnson. he wants all this cabinet picks approved, well he's getting that too so right now, with his approval at 57% and higher than ever and democrats look like a broken losing party? david: they still don't, in fact -- >> i wouldn't bet against him. david: the best thing to pull out is this oligarch thing that biden pulled out. somebody frankly wrote it for him.

i don't think he came up with the idea himself and then you heard bernie repeat the oligarch line and then all of the left wing television stations and radio stations use the oligarch line. ignoring completely the fact that kamala had more billionaires on her side than he did, than donald trump did, and a lot of them were classic oligarchs, like soros. >> it's an old old technique ad one-time, you create a boogy man you're supposed to be afraid of, one-time it was the tea party, next time the alt right, one year it was a chat room with 12 people, and then last time it was maga extremists. i don't know what that is. david: they ripped the band-aid off and just started calling him hitler, and that is eventually what lost the election, right? they just got into stuff the american people did not want to get into. >> the madison square garden rally, an ode hads to nazis

because they had a convention there 85 years ago. since that time four democratic national conventions. it was such a laughable argument. again it's the dems who cried wolf. they over play their hand with all this and people just start to shut it off after a while to one point around billionaires donating to kamala more. the top 10 congressional districts in this country are represented by democrats. david: what does that tell you? well, let's switch over to the hamas deal which you know a little bit about. what do you think is going to happen first of all? is benjamin netanyahu in trouble with members of his coalition that don't want the deal and could that kill the deal from the israeli side? >> they will do phase i. david: phase i is the release. >> phase ii and phase iii will never happen. trump takes over on monday. by tuesday they will have a whole other solution to this. israel will have the green light. donald trump is on the phone with iran, carrot and sticking them into hamas. david: that's great.

well, so we're going to definitely get a repeat of the maximum pressure which robbed them of all of the funds they were using to fund terrorism around the world. will we get in addition to that a real stick, a hit at their nuclear whatever, wherever their facilities are to create a nuclear bomb? >> it usually goes to the non-military. he will negotiate with them. he could totally ruin their economy by lowering the price of oil and offer them, you know, let's be friends and work something out kind of, he will get it done. he calmed north korea down for four years and russia for four years and he will get iran to be quiet. david: by the way saudi arabia i assume will become part of the abraham accord. they were this close to it the last time before biden came in and of course he killed a lot of those. okay from something like that, to something like hollywood, joe, which is what we rely on you for , and keep us in touch with what's happening there. there is this new organization. it has yet to be completely formed by donald trump but he

wants to create a new conservative great hollywood american patriotic feeling again. he's got sylvester stallone and mel gibson, where does that go? >> to a place of profits. think about the biggest movie of the decade. "top gun" maverick. tom cruise is somehow 60 looks younger than he did. david: he restored hollywood. there was a rebirth of hollywood because of that. >> completely. and even reagan this last year got 98% approval by audiences in rotten tomatoes and only 15% from hollywood movie critics and it was a great movie. david: small budget film with a limited release but people loved it. >> yeah, dennis quaid was awesome in it so there's an appetite for these things, yellowstone for example, on television. a lot of people that are being overlooked in terms of audiences and trump gets that in hollywood should start getting that

because you keep doing movies where you have the wizard of oz for example, takes place in los angeles and dorothy is going to be black and that's fine i guess but the original movie was perfect. don't touch it. just to have social justice? i'm sorry. david: you just get a sense that even hollywood and california in general realize that woke stuff doesn't work and they are fed up with it. you do see this beginning of a crack in the woke wall, even in the deep blue states like california. >> i hate to say it but los angeles looks like japan after world war ii. its got to be rebuilt. they know that these policies stinky and those ambassadors, these guys have trump's ear and will need a lot of federal help to rebuild. those have a lot of clout right now. david: they have to go, gavin newsom has to do what he refused to do in 2020 right before trump left. he wanted him to bring the water down. he has to do that to get the money he needs to rebuild. >> and yet gavin newsom is on twitter saying give us the money, no conditions. david: he's already lost that

battle. big time. mark and joe, wonderful to see you. have a great weekend. >> take care. david: coming up, even before trump's inauguration, the fbi claims it's giving up its woke dei division, so how does donald trump and the trump administration make sure that it stays gone for good? we'll be talking about it with congresswoman luna when kudlow continues. (traffic noises) (♪)

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david: so the fbi has quietly closed down its dei office, after president trump's win, but is it too little too late? joining me now is florida congresswoman anna paulina luna. congresswoman i haven't seen you since you were a candidate. its been a long time so it's wonderful to see you as a congresswoman. you've been doing a great job. >> thank you. david: what do you make of this fbi, you know? honestly, it appears to me to be the deep state trying to appease donald trump before he comes into office. what do you make of this move by the fbi? >> well, it's good that they are trying to save face but until we get kash confirmed i don't have faith the fbi is in the right direction so there needs to be a top-down overhaul of the entire bureau. instead of going after grandmothers and people who are

standing up for the unborn they need to go after domestic terrorists so i look forward to the overhaul of the fbi. david: yeah, it's going to be an amazing thing to see. i mean, again, we have to see if he is approved by the senate but the way its been going this week, i think frankly, donald trump is going to get everybody he nominated, but having said that, you look at everything the fbi has done not only in the past four years, but during trump's first administration, when they did the operation crossfire hurricane very sophisticated title for essentially spying illegally in some cases spying on americans, and changing all these fisa warrants and everything in order to do so, and then of course going in the past four years with the radon mar-a-lago and all of the other attempts to use lawfare against him. the fbi seemed to be going so willingly in that direction. it wasn't like the doj was twisting their arm to do it. >> most certainly. in fact what we're finding just

like good and bad at any agency the fbi seems to have been infiltrated though and really had top-down leadership and bureaucracy that's been pushing a leftist agenda. make no mistake the doj and i argue the biden administration is actually pushing for there to be a weaponization of the fbi against president trump and his allies, but to be clear about something, you know the intelligence community as a whole i think we're going to find this cycle with section 702 fisa reauthorization that there is some big changes. we're finding that we know especially right now with the new incoming congress, people that are more loyal to president trump and the america-first agenda that we might not have some of the same issues we had previously and we have two years to really put all the elbow grease in and get his agenda passed. david: you know who agrees with you on the general outline that you just said is general jack keane. general keane, wonderful four star general in the mix of the political military world his

entire life. he said getting rid of dei in the military won't be tough. most of these guys were dragged kicking and screaming into that environment except for the you know what kissers at the top who were doing what the biden administration wanted them to do, so they are just turning it up but again, you look at something and this isn't directly related to the fbi but you look at homeland security. what they have become, i mean it started out as an understandable reaction to the 2001 attacks, the 9/11 attacks but it has in many cases become a monster of its own. rand paul has been very critical of homeland security. had something to say about it earlier today. i just want to play that and get your reaction. roll it. >> instead of focusing on critical threats, like securing the southwest border, dhs shifted its gaze inward, targeting law-abiding americans. dhs under the biden administration has often used its vast powers to target

americans exercising their constitutional rights. its become an agency more focused on policing speech, monitoring social media, and labeling political dissent as domestic terrorism than addressing genuine security threats. david: do you agree with that, congresswoman? >> oh, yeah i blew the lid off dhs's joint state actor relationship with corporations like meta, google, youtube and them using under dhs to actually illegally surveillance and coordinate the suppression of free speech in this country. especially again, at the time against a sitting president that would have been president trump, so when i say kristi noem getting is incredibly important but also they need to go through and fire every one of the corrupt bureaucrats responsible for this. david: how do you separate it though? that's the question. a lot of, do the records speak for themselves, these deep state bureaucrats? >> oh, yeah. i would say that anyone coming in, secretary-wise, needs to do

an internal investigation and actually have people go through whatever archives they have on the records. the government likes to keep archives of everything. go through e-mails and ensure you are seeing who was actually making the calls to violate people's freedom of speech. frankly those people need to be black listed and never get hired again in washington d.c. if you violate someone's constitutional rights you have no place in government. david: it's in doj with regard to department of justice, it's going to be relatively easy getting rid of the prosecutors. that's usually done in a change of parties when a new administration comes in, just firing all of the prosecutors and bringing in your own people, but in d dhs you have this bureaucracy, they have their roots in deep. >> fire them all. what i can tell you is i was the only member of congress that wanted to go after garland. i brought the contempt resolution to the floor and there was four republicans that voted to keep him actually from being accountable and any other american would have gone to jail and so what i will tell you is

this new republican party incoming, we're not playing games. if you are working against the president's agenda the agenda for the american people, you're going to get primaried. david: quickly some people would just say it's too late. you just gotta get rid of the entire organization. get rid of dhs entirely and distribute its positions to other departments and agencies. what do you think of that very quickly. >> i mean, i would not be opposed to that. there's plenty of overlapping agencies that have overlapping jobs and authorities. david: yeah, well it's going to be very interesting to see and again, i was kind of interested today to see kristi noem, the democrats, kind of pullback on their earlier attacks earlier in the week because they weren't going anywhere, they were getting hit back harder than throwing. great to see you, congresswoman. thanks for being here. >> thank you. david: we'll be right back. more kudlow after this.

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david: well thank you so much for watching this special edition of kudlow and if you think that's special, be sure to tune in on monday, larry himself will be broadcasting live from d.c. for inauguration day. you do not want to miss it, and you do not want to miss elizabeth macdonald whose going to take you through the next hour. liz: good to see you david thank you so much a great show. welcome to the "evening edit." i'm elizabeth macdonald. >> his mental acuity is great, it's fine, it's as good as its been over the years. all this right win