we have very little, i think, understanding still about how significant the impacts -- like energy needs and usage will be. but the answer is pretty clear no matter what we see here, it'll be more; right. if we find ways to train these sort of student models, maybe more efficiently in some areas, you're probably going to see more widespread adoption, which will increase and compute loads in different ways. we think a lot about training costs, but use costs of ai from energy perspective are i think in some ways people are seeing higher than what people thought. it's a testament to the power of this. there's a huge amount of upside. liz: great to see you both. please, as this partnership develops, come back. we'd love to hear more about it. markets closed higher ahead of app and will intel earnings. stay tuned for that. we are coming back tomorrow. kudlow is next. larry: hello, folks. welcome to kudlow. i'm larry kudlow. we're opening tonight with

blanket coverage of all these top news stories of the day including the utterly tragic plane crash over the potomac last evening and important hearings for trump nominees tulsi gabbard and kash patel and senator rand paul here in just a moment to comment on all of it, senator tommy tuberville here later to talk about all this and former fed governor kevin warsh going to tell us why they can't pin it on trump and lady's night out talking politics as well. first up, our own edward lawrence live at the white house. edward, what do you got? reporter: larry, big news of the day, about 20 minutes ago president trump signed a memorandum over aviation safety assessing aviation safety, and within that stressing competence over dei when related to hiring. the president said the nation is in mourning over the 67 people killed in the midair collision

flight -- american flight 5342 on final approach at 9:00 p.m. last night at reagan international airport and collided with a military black hawk helicopter on routine training mission and transportation secretary sean duffy said the plane and helicopter were in contact with the tower and a major mistake happened. president trump believes dei hiring practices from the biden administration may have played a part, listen. >> the physical examination aa's diversity push includes focus on hiring people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities. that is amazing. and there's faa saying people with severe disabilities are most underrepresented segment of the work force and they want them in and they can be air traffic controllers. reporter: former transportation secretary pete buttigieg calling the accusation despicable saying president trump oversees the military and faa and one of his

first acts was fire and suspend key personnel that helped keep our skies safe. ntsb has taken over this investigation and will not speculate as to the cause. listen. >> our attention is to have -- our tension is to have a preliminary report within 30 days and a federal report will be issued once we've completed all of our fact finding and investigation. we will not be determining the probable cause of the accident while here on scene. reporter: 30 days we could get a cause and victim's families are arriving in dc and ntsb will personally brief them on exactly what they know. larry. larry: thanks very much, edward lawrence. we appreciate it. now, head over to capitol hill for some of the details on kash patel's confirmation hearing. fox news david spunt joining us live. david, thank you for this. what can you tell us? reporter: well, quite a long day for kash patel, president trump's nominee for fbi director

and looks to make it and all republicans seemed on board, but he took tough questions and heard from both sides of the aisle passionately, watch. >> either you're going to run your agency or the agency's going to run you. >> the american people deserve the fbi director focused on keeping our families safe from terrorism, drug trafficking and violent crime. not the checklist of grievances we find in this book. >> the priority of the fbi, if i'm confirmed, will be to enchew that our communities are protected and safeguarded and our children have parks to play in and not needles to walk over. reporter: larry, mr. patel was asked to clarify his views on january 6, one week after president trump granted clemency to more than 1500 people involved in the january 6, 2021, attack. patel said this ... >> i do not agree with the commutation of any sentence of any individual that committed violence against law enforcement. reporter: just a flavor of the

hearing, of course, there was more. if con if i wered, patel could -- confirmed patel could serve up to ten years in that role but we've seen with james comey and christopher wray, it's up to the president and they could be replaced at any time. larry. larry: thank you, david spunt. over to fox news chad pergram with the details from tulsi gabbard's hearing. chad, thank you for doing this. reporter: larry, good afternoon. no other nominee faces as much trouble getting confirmed but tulsi gabbard for director of intelligence. it's about the math. she could face as many as six republican noes in the senate and trying to flip doubters to yes. >> ms. gabbard, what would you say to republicans? >> you'll hear it in the hearing. reporter: senators from both sides questioned ba gabbard abot her bill to pardon edward snowdin after raiding fbi

secrets and fled to russia. >> at the same time you were skeptical of the intelligence communities assessments, you would not apply the same skepticism to information that came from sympathizers of russian assad. reporter: some senators wonder if gabbard will truly safeguard america's secrets and she defended the meetings she had in damascus with the former leader of syria. larry. larry: chad, thank you for this. i don't want to embarrass you, but i watched your live on the ground coverage of the awful plane crash last night. you were spectacular. i just wanted to tell you that. reporter: thank you very much. i want to give a hat tip to aaron kurtz, who is our photographer and rushed to the scene, and my producer who is my wife. larry: that's wonderful. didn't know about your wife, but regards to her. you were just fantastic. thank you for that. we appreciate it. >> tragic scene in washington. larry: yeah, afraid so. folks, let's move on.

don't believe the fake news. don't believe the fake news. donald trump is cutting spending and the bureaucracy, and that's the subject of the riff. larry: so, the beltway swamp hates it but donald trump is bound and determined to shrink the federal budget and mass deficit and shrink the 2 million plus federal work force. a score of liberal news outletss are all claiming that trump's directive of free certain federal spending was rescinded, no such thing took place. a memo from omb was pulled back mainly because it was badly written. but take the washington post for example, trump white house rescinds order freezing federal spending, reversing course. however, mr. trump's executive order to put a hold on various grants and loans and credits that have not yet been spent or disbursed continues to stand. he wants to freeze and then review funding for things like

dei and the green new deal. he's going after the misnamed inflation reduction act, and a whole bunch of other programs that are based on stuff called disadvantaged businesses or disadvantaged communities. dei and affirmative action strike again, but they're both illegal, and the president is well within his executive authority. in other words, he's not pulling back. it's the executive order that counts. all of this could save close to $1 trillion in federal spending and deficits. as far as shrinking the federal work force, another trump executive order provides a generous eight month severance package to workers who want to resign. rather than work for mr. trump. once again, the liberal media and dc swamp howl while mr. trump has the authority to do it under the civil service reform act of 1978, hat tip to

"the wall street journal" editorial page for pointing this out. the president can redesignate jobs if the role involves policymaking at any level, be it a cabinet secretary or assistant secretary or mid level career person. mr. trump is restoring a job category known as policy career, which was formally known as schedule f. , which allows him to say if you disagree with my policy and you work against it, you're fired. well over 50,000 civil servants have to deal with this and over 2 million civil servants have to find out if they want to resign or not. odds are 5 will have 10% will resign. that can save us $100 billion. stay in the game show up for work and toe the line for president trump's election mandate for policy change and don't listen to any fake news. that's the riff. all right. joining me now is kentucky

senator rand paul. senator paul, welcome. one hardly knows where to stop. just give us a quickie, i don't think you were involved in tulsi gabbard or kash patel but hearing in the cloak room. what can you share with us? >> fans of bothment we need both of them and need some people in charge of intelligence agency that will be disrupters and make sure the fbi is not politicized and same thing at other agencies as well. there's evidence coming out for years of politicization, particularly going back to 2016 election when the fbi was used as a weapon against donald trump's campaign. getting rid of politicization and getting rid of people acting in a partisan way absolutely needs to be done and kash patel will be a good person to do that at fbi and tulsi gabbard good to be in charge of all intelligence. larry: let me play some tape on the tulsi gabbard thing.

hang on a second. >> president trump's reelection is a clear mandate to break the cycle of favor and weaponization and politicization of the intelligence community, those who oppose my nomination imply i'm loyal to something or someone other than god, my own conscience and the constitution of the united states. acue causing me of being a puppet and what truly unsettles my political opponents is i refuse to be their puppet. larry: senator rand, i liked part of that, we were taping things together, splicing things together. but i really do like her putting this puppet business. trump in the same category as putin or as sad or mody or whatever. i didn't understand that really. she's there to carry out

mr. trump's policies. she has to be loyal to the constitution and just like you or any of us serving in the white house. i was a little -- raised my eyebrow. >> she was talking about democrats and some republicans say she'll be trump puppet and some on the other said say she'll be putin's puppet and they say she's not a true and honest person. i like the statement she's faithful to her god, the constitution, and faithful to her oath of office. we need someone like that. this is enormous power to spy on people and listen to phone calls and gather up information needs to be controlled with oversight by representatives, by the constitution and make sure the constitution applies to all of us in the country and that we aren't the victims of spying. spying and surveillance, like the foreign intelligence court should be used on foreigners and not americans and has been used in recent years on americans.

we need someone skeptical of power like tulsi gabbard to dbrox in charge, frankly. larry: i sure agree with that, 100%, senator. the other thing i've never really swallowed is edward snowdin defense. i never understood she wanted to pardon him. she was a traitor and let go of a lot of military and intelligence secrets. it's a sticking point i can't swswallow it down. what do you think? >> edward snowdin may be the greatest whistle blower in all of history and reveal that had james clapper lied to the senate when he said he wasn't collecting data on all americans when it turns out through a single order, what was revealed by edward snowdin was a single order to verizon to collect millions and millions of americans meta data and phone data, who they were calling and how long they were talking. that was an invasion and violation of the fourth amendment. james clapper, who was in charge

of the intelligence, came to the senate and told ron widen we're not doing this and had to back pedal and say he misstated and never would have known without edward snowdin. now, does that mean i justify all the leaks and information? no, there has to be secrets to the rules. but at the same time there's a great deal of civil disobedience in there and whether or not there'd be some kind of punishment suffering here at home, he'd suffer that if he were allowed to come home. some want to kill him. some people want to put him in jail forever. some people say he's a traitor to his country, but i think he was faithful to the constitution in exposing that his own government was lying about spying on americans. larry: you know, senator, you almost had me till that last little line there that he was faithful to his government. no, he wasn't. i think he was very anti-american. he's a citizen in russia today, in moscow. look issue i agree with you -- >> they'll put him in jail or

kill him if he comes home. they was trapped, but he was faithful to the constitution and fourth amendment, and reveal that had u.s. government was spying on millions and millions of americans without a warrant. that's a big deal. larry: it is a big deal and clapper afters lier. all those 51 together were liars, former intelligence guys. >> absolutely. larry: we can agree on that, but you'll never convince me about snowdin being i faithful. >> i'll keep working on you, larry. larry: he's not ann jell ick fo america. let's move on, all the business of trump cutting spending and stopping funding of dei and green new deal and the misnamed inflation reduct act and mr. tram subpoena doing this and not backing off and coming to shrink the federal work force and we probably agree with that

washington post in the lead and he'll do it, senator, he'll do it and i'll do it. >> he's all in and i'll do everything to support him on cutting spending and digest danger to our country and it's a fight between conservatives and libertarians and the biggest danger to our country is from within. it's the debt. it's not foreign invasion and we have to preparerses and defend our country militarily, but it's not our real danger. it's from within to de-troy the country from debt and interest rate started to turn and exponential and tahin all broke putting in perspective the diet lment program suck up all the revenue and budget we vote on, which is military and nonmilitary discretionary and it's a third all borrowed and zeroed out the budget that congress votes on. you don't balance a budget.

this problem is bigger than most people can even fathom. larry: i think you're right. agree with all that. i don't know if i'm a conservative or libertarian. maybe a conservative libertarian and could be a conservative libertarian. >> you could be a conservatarian. >> larry: i like that. thank you, senator. our federal finances and the government doesn't go down in flames, how about, i haven't pushed this with my form reposes or other associates for the government. how about selling some gold backed u.s. treasury bonds. how about doing that? what do you think of that, senator rand paul? >> it's worth a discussion. most of the big paper money advocateds and they said cold is worthless and none decided to get rid of it and a bunch sits in the imf and some in the world

bank and some in the federal reserve and backing with a currency and marketing it, sure, it would be a great idea. larry: gold hit a new record high today. just saying. cold hit a new record high and commenting on the program. i talked about this with your dad all the time and such a smart fella and thought i'd ask that question. i'm sure you'll produce some legislation to the effect that we should have gold backed bonds. what can you call me, conservatarian? >> yeah, you're a conservative heading towards libertarian. we're pulling you. larry: senator rand paul, you're terrific. thanks for coming on the show. coming up, former federal reserve kevin warsh telling us why the fed can't pin inflation on trump and, folks, please remember catch kudlow monday through friday at 4:00 p.m. right here on fox bis. fabulous fox bis, almost missed

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larry: my pal kevin wars shall recollects that in "the wall street journal," the fed can't pin the inflation on trump. former reserve governor and man about town, man alaska wall street. they're trying to read all these guys and mouthpieces of the fed. that's what you read a lot about that and care more about tariffs at the moment than they do inflation or interest rates or anything else. >> inflation surged long before the president came into office and the rest, they first said it was because of the war in europe and then they said it was because of supply chains and covid but inflation is still a huge regressive tax to the american people so there's a new contrivance in washington and some new york that the president is threatening tariffs and

that's the source of inflation. they don't seem to put the same emphasis on the spending cuts that you and i think are real and coming. they don't seem to spend as much time and attention on deregulation. these are hugely disinflationary forces. i think the other big news of yesterday wasn't just what the fed said where they're talking about tariffs but what the president said. president seems like he's ready to take matters into his own hands and seemed more troubled by the inflation from the central bank than whose job it is to deal with it. larry: let's stop there. that's a great point. so many media outlets misreport it had saying he was furious at the fed for not cutting interest rates. that is not true. if you read his truth social, he didn't mention interest rates and he just said what you said. jay powell and fed failed to stop the problem with inflation and i'll do it by unleashing american energy production, slashing regulation, rebalancing trade, and reigniting

manufacturing. the treasury will lead the effort to cut unnecessary regulation. if the fed has spend less time on dei gender ideology, green energy, and fake climate change, inflation would never have been a problem. i mean, that's what he's -- you're right. he's more concerned, not about slashing interest rates, about getting inflation down. it's fantastic. and the fed, then the fed >> you got that right, brother. larry: it's like the media will not report this. >> the normal washington blame game is the other guy and what the president did is blame me and i'm fix this. i can't afford to wait around for them and inflation did a lot of harm to the predeceases torr and if the fed won't act, he will. that's an impeak spltous for the cut -- impetus for cutting and spending and he's been in the job ten days and it's a pretty impressive run. larry: he has a model that's

very interesting and we're not going to agree with it 100%. he has an oil, oil centric model of inflation and there's a lot of truth to it and oil perm nating the economy and hundreds of consumer goods. he then gave the davos speech and fingered the saudis and taking awhile for trump's energy deregulation to take hold. saudis could increase if you want to and would help the united states and hurt russia. >> if they went from 75 to 50 and there'd be a lot of incentive for person producers to drill, baby drill and supply could woman online and the president's responsible for things that central bangers aren't is gio politics and getting the saudis to provide

manufacture supply and energy markets and lower prices for american consumers and might be part of a deal that brings the saudis, israelis and others to a peace deal in the middle east, which has another benefit for the global economy. larry: iranian production and put for sanctions on them. >> hurt a lot of our adversaries. larry: you wrote in your wall street journal article more importantly, that obviously biden had too much government spending and unfortunately the fed "monetized it" and they put the printing press on it overtime, and your point is that there's still too much money out there, too much money chasing too few goods. still is at this late date. so here's the fed cutting interest rates and pumping more into the economy and how is that getting inflation down? >> they have a view, the economics profession broadly and inflation coming for workers and economy is too hot and those theories are wrong.

inflation comes when the government spends too much and prints too much. if the fed could drain money from the balance sheet, shrink the size of the federal reserve's and take that money out, interest rates could be lower the real and i stronger and don't have the right objectives and right tools then i'm afraid we'll live in a world where inflation is too high and it continues to be a real burden for the american working class. larry: you know, going back to quoting president trump and miz truth social. they're flirted with all that in those four years. only make the last four weeks that jay powell is running away. what trump did here was nail them. just nailed them. he'll make big changes in that institution when he can. >> yeah, the remit doesn't seem to mention any of those and remit that congress gave to the

fed said price stability and maximum sustainable moment. employment and might be virtues or vices and it's not their job and more focus on their day job and not having this kind of turmoil that's happening in prices in the u.s. among the big training partners and if they focus on job number one, getting prices down, it would be good. inflation closer to 3% and 2%. only person angry is president of the united states. larry: the gdp report is going out and rather disappointed 2.3% and we can do a lot better. now scott bessent wants 3%+. he's right and to your point, the pce, core pce deflater 2.8, the fed's target is 2.0 and don't talk about that and they're running and other measures are worse and they're yelling at me to get out. it's great to talk to you.

you know what, we need changes at the fed. >> regime change in economic policy across institutions in government, and the fed should be a part of that. larry: absolutely, 100%. kevin warsh, the best of the best. thanks ever so much for coming on. coming up, fake news notwithstanding and president trump will shrink the federal bureaucracy and he'll shrink the federal work force, and he's going to shrink the federal budget. count on it. we will talk about it with liz peek, miranda devine and caroline doughny right here on -- downey onset. it is lady's night out with kudlow. aisle be right back. ♪ advil liqui-gels are faster and stronger than tylenol rapid release gels. ♪ also from advil,

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devine, and caroline downey, staff writer at the national review. ladies, thank you very much. we heard liz talking about it off camera. trump is saying he's issuing executive orders saying we're gonna reduce the bureaucracy and give you buyouts and give you seven points reince pay and if you want to stick around and if you don't agree with my policies and i'll fire you and saying that over and over again and papers were not for it and it's legal and laws backing him up and going for them and it's a very big deal and tug of war going on and the media deciding okay, he really said it and will

do it. politically think about it for a moment. >> politically, it's a great move but the public wants cutting of incompetence and waste and everybody knows that the government wastes your money and is not a good steward of our tax dollars, and they know from their own personal lives manage their own budgets and they work for companies where there's a periodic buyouts like this and it was a humane way of cutting work force and they did it back in the 90s and it's not unusual, he's not being a barbarian and doing the normal thing that companies and governments ought to do every now and then to just sort of prune out the deadwood and make sure that your best people shine. larry: a lot of it, not all, but a lot of these orders, he's going after dei and culture war,

which is very unpopular. he's going after the green new deal, can't buy your own gas and oil powered cars. this is good economics as well as politics. >> without a doubt. miranda is totally right. people know that the government wastes an enormous amount of your money. when ronald reagan made a fayetteville louis line about i'm -- famous line about i'm here from the government and here to help. they responded because they know the government gets in your way. i think compared to ronald reagan's time, now it is so so frustrating and talking to small business owners and crazy with the regulations and rules and there's not just state and local communities, it's also the federal government, which never bothered people and now it's bothering people, and i really think people are fed up with it. the idea of attacking it is wildly popular. larry: all right, so, caroline,

democrats have a 31% favorable and republicans 43 according to to a quinnipiac poll. trump 43 favor, 45. he's flat. call it flat. the democrats are down an enormous amount and democrats are unhinged. democrats heads are spinning and you see it not only in the economic stuff we're talking about and in the confirmation hearings and jabber onto take shape shots or sleaze or spears or talking about january 6. i love it in a way. they're talking about stuff that no one cares about. it was completely rejected on november 5. they don't have a policy in mind. >> to me, larry, seems like the democratic party is dying. i think they still can't wrap

their heads around the fact their dream of this multiethnic working class coalition was shattered by trump. that was supposed to be what they achieve and warning signs were there for four years ago since obama left office and democrats failed to understand working class and high norty voters and african americans and hispanics for granted and not realizing they were becoming these disaffected anti-establishment types and globalization and what it was doing to their communities, and i think they're still in denial about all of that. then they responded to trump and their backlash to trump and dug their grave deeper by lunging into progressive activists. larry: briefly watching my friend kash patel and being cross examined by deck durbin, whom i know and interviewed him several times on another show

and different network, but that was then. all he wanted to know and guy from vermont did the same thing, peter welsh, senator from vermont? >> not bernie sanders? >> no, welsh. all they wanted to talk about was who won the 2020 election. larry: that was it. and they wanted kash to say biden won. what kash was doing was saying he was the legitimately elected certified inaugurated president. he wanted to use won, w-o-n. he won. they went on like this back and forth. so bad and terrible for tv ratings, really. second of all, is that all you got? here's the guy that will take over the fbi and all the things they've done and the crazy and damaging american citizens, and they want to fiddle around with who won the 2020 election? miranda devine, i ask you, how stupidly unhinged is that? >> pathetic and it's so shallow,

it's so typical, it's what they did to pete hegseth. this country has enormous challenges ahead. crime and foreign threats and these guys are in these positions of power and all they care about it's inside and that's why they're so unpopular and there's a public that are overall of that and rejected of that and they want something fresh and that's what trump is offering and the popularity now is their republican party and comparatively to the democrats and more popular than almost 20 years. that's the trump republican party so it's a big wakeup call to the rhinos, to the never trampers. they lost -- never trumpers and they lost, get out of the way. larry: couldn't believe it, dick durbin.

liz, i had this discussion with my friend rand paul. i'm not yet sold on tulsi gabbard. i'm not. >> i think she's more difficult for me also than rfk jr.. he had nutty things in his background, there's no question. but he's tackling or wants to tackle our healthcare so many enormous problems and disrupt in the healthcare system. i think tulsi gabbard is a very different fish and i don't think people really believe her flip-flops on various important issues like 702, the whole issue of surveillance of american st.s, how -- american citizens and how far she'll take intelligence gathering or allows that and i don't know if there's the concerted attack on her that rfk jr. handled because after all there's not the enormous amounts of lobbying dollars that the big ag and food food companies are in big pharma

throw at senators. i don't know if there's going to be an organized attack on her. i'm not sure. larry: thing is, caroline, with rfk jr., i watched the hearing a lot and what i heard. a very distinguished conservative newspaper attacked him for stopping drilling in new york. i'm sure that's true. evidence of infection thought that was terribly important and clever and hopefully true. i done want to rest everything on that she said years ago. i want to know she's on the team. i guess that's my problem, and i

don't think i'm alone. i think many of these republican senators, we're running out of time, but what do you think? >> >> natural review opposed tulsi gabbard and rfk jr.. where i descend on your point is that there's a lot of people claiming he's this rogue actor who's really going to destroy trust in the medical apparatus and he's going to go to war against big pharma and big food, which by the way that's increasingly popular among this new cohort make america healthy again on the right, which is kind of why a lot of old school liberals switched over to trump and very attractive. yes, especially women. i think rfk at that hearing pledged on those issues that conservatives are very worried about abortion. he made concessions not to allow the taxpayer funding of abortion or abroad and pro lifers and he's willing to work with trump's coalition that includes traditional conservatives, and he's going to defer to his boss, that's trump.

larry: didn't hear from tulsi. i don't know. i'm not campaigning against them but having trouble swallowing it. >> i think a lot of other people are as well. they're afraid she's going to act a little too independent of trump when it comes to things. larry: that's what i heard today and i want her to be constitutional independent, okay. the matter of intelligence this is policy too and trump is the president. i didn't hear that from her. >> larry, in the first term, too many people not on the trump train. larry: i know, you're 100% right on that. anyway, i'm still swallowing. ladies nighted out, miranda devine, liz peek, ask&scare line downey, worry all wonderful. caroline downey. you're all wonderful, lady's night out. thank you. stick with kudlow, we'll be right back.

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larry: all right, joining us now. our great friend senator tommy tuberville from great state of louisiana. welcome back. we hope your health is improving and got over your cold or whatever it was. senator, just a question, it's a bit unfair but do you think that president trump will slap the

25% tariffs on canada and mexico saturday, february 1? he kind of hinted at it at his -- when he was signing executive orders in the oval today, but then he seemed to condition it and maybe he's negotiate and it's thursday, february 1 is saturday. what do you think, senator? >> we hear he's negotiating, but he'll do it. if he can't work whatever he needs to work out, you know president trump. he's going to slam them with a probably 25% tariff, mexico and canada, we have to get a lot going in the right direction from both in the north and south, but tariffs are a huge way to get the country back going again and again, get people to listen to you and that's what president trump is doing. larry: do you think -- has mexico done enough to help us on the border do you think or not? no, no, they haven't done enough.

they've been fighting back to some degree, larry, but president trump knows again, knows how to get them to turn around and new president. this lady that took over, president of mexico six, seven months ago is a total communist. she's actually further left than the last president. we've had huge problems with businesses in alabama that's in mexico they're trying to take over. it's a disaster, but we have to have better relationship with mexico. they need us more than we need them but president trump will work out that deal. larry: i noticed and i read your posting on the internet, america is facing a public health crisis. you're supporting robert kennedy jr.. i thought kennedy did a very good job, sir, yesterday. and i myself rift in his favor. it's true, we are -- we do have kind of a public health crisis that we're in denial about. maybe guy like rfk jr. is the

right guy to give us a wakeup call. >> we need somebody out of the box, larry, that's the reason president trump picked him. he had a lot of -- kennedy had a lot of support from the millennials and health people all over the country when running for president. when he came and started supporting president trump, president trump took him on and brought millions of people to president trump's side. but, you know, he's experienced, written books, he understands what we're up against. the big thing that my two boys a year ago said that you've got to listen to these podcasts. he's right on target with the health and things going into the food and chemicals in our body, we're right on track with him. he's a good guy ready to go but has a good team. they don't realize it's not the cabinet mcellroys too, it's the people -- members too, it's the people around him getting the job done. but a good guy and perfect pick. larry: all right, senator tuberville, be well. be well. you take care of yourself, sir.

we'll talk soon. >> thank you. larry: thanks very much. i'll be right back with my last word. ♪

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