marvell. they've been beat down pretty good going into this number, and there's about a 12% move expected off this number. i think nvidia looks great. you know, a lot of these stocks have hit their bear market territory down over 20% and below their 200-day moving averages, and one of the things we have to watch, i think tech is the place to be although, certainly, we are going into correction territory and possibly bear market territory in the markets. i mean, there's a lot of issues. as good of job or not job that you think president trump is doing, there's going to be pain suffered, and the chipmakers have been under pressure about the last four or five months. liz: yeah. none of the a.i. works without the chips, so keep that in mind. todd "bubba "horowitz, thank you so much. a turn-around for the markets on the news that the president will give a reprieve to the automakers. ♪ larry: hello, folks. welcome to "kudlow," i'm larry kudlow. so president trump delivered a

colossus of a speech last night. not just unleashing prosperity, but showing and arguing that there are no limits to american greatness. no limits, none. now, we will begin in just a moment with house judiciary chair, the great jim jordan, plus steve forbes and john carney will figure out tariffs and the stock market story. and then agriculture secretary brooke rollins waiting in the wings on president trump's promise to make america affordable again. but first on fox news, peter doocy live at the white house. peter, thank you for this. what's cooking? >> reporter: well, larry, some big news over here. we found out that stellantis and ford and general motors used their contacts at the white house to get a carveout from these brand new tariffs. but it is temporary. >> we spoke with the big three auto dealers. we are going to give a one month exemption on any autos coming

through usmca. reciprocal tariffs will still go into effect on april 2nd. but at the request of the companies associated with usmcs -- usmca, the president is is giving them an examination for one month. >> reporter: we are also now hearing about angie adjustment period from no tariffs to new tariff, and the president is asking americans to bear with him alluding to prices that could rise. >> they will happen rather quickly. there'll be a little disturbance, but we're okay with that. it won't be much. no, you're not. >> reporter: the president believes tariff revenue is going to help the u.s. bring down the debt and the deficit along with doge cuts which brought us to this question today -- we know that some officials here were miffed that zelenskyy showed up last week without a suit for his meeting in the oval office, but elon musk never wears a suit --

>> he did last night. >> reporter: so what is the dress code? >> well, elon musk wore a suit last night, i'm sure you saw it -- >> [inaudible] by zelenskyy getting kicked out? [laughter] >> no, i don't think so. i'm just pointing out he did wear a suit last night, and i think the president liked that very much. >> reporter: and he can afford it. he can actually afford probably to have a backup suit as a well in case it gets wrinkled in his suitcase. so the doge effort is going to continue, and so too will these tariffs. officials are trying to send a message to traders that are nervous about things that lie ahead. they think trump's first term proved that, as a whole, his policies are very business-friendly. larry? if. larry: peter, did you -- have you picked up any sense, i mean, i was in the west wing quite a while yesterday talking to people, meeting with people. did you pick up any sense when the president says there might be a little disturbance that there might be, shall we say, a

little more than expected disturbance from the tariff story? >> reporter: yes. because he is no to longer just talking about how he thinks tariff is one with of the most beautiful words in the english language. he is actually putting the word out that this is going to be felt by people. and, you know, they want to blame egg prices on joe biden, that is fair. that is not something that happened overnight. but everything else, the prices are going to start to go up. and they don't want people to be totally blindsided on top of having their bottom line affects a little -- affected a little bit. but, yes, i do have a a sense that they are trying to get people to brace for impact and kind of create a sense of i'm with ya on this so that it doesn't seem like it's disconnected where he's got these economic policies, he throws out a number, 25%, and then he just sits and watches as people suffer. larry: yeah. all right, got it.

peter doocy, as always, thanks very much. now, folks, donald trump's american greatness knows no bounds, and that's the subject of the riff. ♪ larry: so here's what i heard from donald trump's speech last night. there's no limit, no boundary, no end to american greatness and what america can accomplish. this colossal speech was mr. trump a's personal -- trump's personal and positive vision for the country he loves, the united states of america. he is unleashing process prosperity -- prosperity, unleashing innovation, unleashing opportunity and unleashing optimism. and that's what i heard last evening. and with all the details enumerating his incredible accomplishments in the first 44 days and all the policy points, i believe the key to understanding how donald trump is dedicating himself to conquering any and all frontiers

confronting america, that's the key. toward the end of the speech, note this, please, and i'm going to quote. with god's help, over the next four years we're going to lead this nation even higher, and we're going to forge the freest, most advanced, most dynamic, most dominant civilization ever to exist on the face of this earth. and through it all, we are going to rediscover the unstoppable power of the american spirit, and we're going to renew unlimited promise of the american dream. end quote. and a powerful quote with it was. so on the economic side, mr. trump's call to unleashing prosperity was very clear where he exhorted congress to immediately pass his entire tax cut plan, make it permanent, even make the business investment provision retroactive to january 1st. take a listen.

>> the next phase of our plan to deliver the greatest economy in history is for this congress to pass tax cuts for everybody. we're seeking permanent income tax cuts all across the board. and to get urgently-needed relief to americans hit especially hard by inflation, i'm calling for no tax on tips, no tax on overtime and no tax on social security benefits for our great senior ises. [applause] and just as we did before, we will provide 100% expensing. it will be retroactive to january 20th, 2025. larry: fabulous. i mean, boom. right there he laid out a powerful economic growth message. bang. right there. he also emphasized his programs of deregulation, drill, baby, drill, liquid gold, and he spent a lot of time praising elon musk and doge and the need to strip the federal government down of all of its waste and fraud and

abuse and corruption. he talked about how he already raised nearly $2 trillion of outside investment coming into the u.s. he mentioned his reciprocal tariff policy, and he said ending unfair trading practices may carry with it a little disturbance. but then again he noted, if you build and invest in america, you won't have to worry about tariffs. then there's disempowering and dismantling the bureaucracy. that was another key economic theme. and, of course, his great success in protecting the border and deporting criminals. i could go on and on, but i really think to capture the donald trump zeitgeist is to understand his love for america and his dedication to common sense solutions that can fix any problem and break down any barrier to america's success is. meanwhile, democrats sat there

like stupefied zombies. they even tried to disrupt him, and they looked awful doing it. and as newt gingrich and some other friends have noted, they couldn't get themselves to applaud zelenskyy's conciliatory letter or show appreciation for this 13-year-old cancer survivor or the return of the hostages or so many other nonpartisan, humane moments in mr. trump's presentation. but we'll carve up the democrats' plight at another time. to my way of thinking, mr. trump offered a providential view of the greatness of america, and that is something this country has been yearning to hear for quite some time. and that happens to be tonight's riff. all right. let's turn to my very dear friend chair of the house judiciary committee, the great jim jordan from the state of ohio, the american heartland.

jim, thank you for coming on, as always, sir. we love having you and you know that. i mean, i really, i know there were lots of details and tax cuts, and those are things that i love, but i'm trying to capture the zeitgeist. i'm trying to capture the big picture. of what this guy's -- you know what? this is almost more reagan than reagan, what he did last night. >> yeah. larry: his vision is so fabulous and so boundless and so endless that, i mean, i just think it hit the nail on the head. >> no, it was leadership on display, leadership for the greatest country ever. i loved near the end of his speech he talked about doers, dreamers, fighters and founders. that is the american people. that's the american spirit. your riff was great. that's the american spirit that has always risen to the occasion, accomplished good things. and when he got into some of -- then he got into some of the specifics, let families, entrepreneurs and small business owners keep more of their money. do common sense energy policy, cut taxes, common regulatory

policy, secure the border. all those basic things. and when you couple the intensity and the pace we have seen in six weeks of this administration with that vision that you talk about that president trump laid out for all those americans who do things, dream things, fight for things, found things, it was a special moment. and, again, what a contrast between, i mean, you hate to do this in some ways, but he was so good and you compare it to joe biden who was so bad at these things, a special night for the president, special night for the country. larry: you know, jim, it's so interesting, you and i have been around a long while. okay. it's like with trump and america, he's saying no is not part of my vocabulary. it's always yes. yes, we can. yes, we can. yes, we will. yes, we will do it even better. yes, we know no boundaries. i just, i just want to harp on this for one second. i know you secretly want to be the chairman of the council of economic advisers -- [laughter] and we're going to get the supply-side economics in just --

and you'd make a darn good one, by the way. >> you would, not me. larry: i don't know about that. but i'm just saying this was, i call it the trump zeitgeist, this trump culture, the spiritual wave that he has engenderedded, you know? >> yeah. larry: i think -- i know it was a long speech, but i had a lot of friends of mine and family members who said, you know what? they had no problem watching the entire speech. they enjoyed the upbeat, positive nature of it so much. you don't get that anymore. nobody's upbeat. nobody's positive anymore. they're all cranky, insult ising, obnoxious zombies. here's trump with breaking new ground. >> exactly right. it was, it wasn't a long speech, it was a great speech. we could have watched it, we could have listened a lot longer. but the thing i like, and maybe -- i think we're describing the same thing in slightly different ways. the thing i love about president trump is he hates to lose are. he thinks like an athlete. winning is all he's focused on and not just winning for

himself, of course, but winning for the country, winning for those doers, dreamers, fighters, founders, winning for the american people. and the country understands that. we, the people, understand that. that's why we appreciate his intensity, his fight and maybe most importantly his willingness to do what he told us he was going to do. everything he's done these first six weeks he told us during the campaign he was going to do. god bless him for doing that. larry: no, i love that, it's the right characterization, winning for the country. he always talks about winning, you're exactly right. it's a whole different attitude. jim jordan, i enjoyed it a lot. he laid down a marker. tax cuts a. >>s the board. every single one he's proposed, even the business investment tax cuts would be retroactive to january 20th. he wants them done permanently and right away, jim jim jordan. >> yeah. larry: can we get that done. >> yeah, we have to. he wants that all to happen because he wants this economy to get earning and turning and churning which is what we had, you know, back in his first

term. so he wants that so the economy grows, and we all know that helps all americans, helps every family, helps wage earners, helps workers, nonunion workers, helps everybody. that's what he wants, we've just got to deliver. you saw us come together last week, pass the first step the of this whole reconciliation process. we've got to keep it up. larry: well, i told speaker johnson is who came on last evening, i called it a miracle. i really think it was a miracle, what you all did. you're very much part of the leadership. now the question is to drive it through. i think, jim, with mr. trump on the warpath for tariffs and reciprocity, and i support his mission. e support his mission. but i would add i would like to see those tax cuts get in as a fast as a possible because i think that the cushions whatever what he calls, you know, the small disturbances. the tax cuts cushion small disturban withs when we're --

disturbances when we're trying -- >> very well said. i agree 100% as well as getting back to good energy policy and reducing the regulatory burden on the job creators. that's going to help us deal with this environment where we have tariffs. i think all that's going to help us, and the sooner the better, we get that done. larry: and i almost hate to say this, but -- i hate to lose you anyway. you know, there has to come a time when you and i and some others can find a couple of people on the other side of the aisle who would applaud a kid recovering from cancer or getting into west point, or hostages getting free. do you know what i mean, jim jordan? there was a time -- look, you and i grew up, there was a time when there were a lot of good-hearted democrats who would have applauded those things. >> yes. larry: and yet none of them were in the chamber last night, and i find that just so awful. >> or how about mrs. comperatore

and her daughters where her husband and their father gave his life in butler, pennsylvania, to protect them? if gave his life, and president trump -- we used, everyone in that place should have been standing up applauding that family as well as the young man who they made an honorary member of the secret service as well as the young man who heard from the hand ander in chief that he's getting -- commander in chief that he's getting to go to west point. i didn't get it either. i've been to 18 of these, and and i always stand up when the president walks in regardless of party, and there are always moments where you need to stand up and appreciate the guests who were there as guests of the president. so it was unfortunate but, look, we're just going to keep on moving and doing what we told the voters we were going to do. that's our job. larry: well, you're exactly right. and the key point here is not the democratic failures. they'll have to sort that out amongst themselves. the key point is trump's phenomenal vision for america. you know, it's like really modernize city on the hill to

the 15th power or something like that. >> well said. larry: jim jordan, you're wonderful. thank you, sir. >> you too, larry, thanks. you bet. larry: all right, folks, so net-net-net the dow jones ended up 500 to points today. tariffs have been paused for a month. canada and mexico, maybe automobile tariffs, maybe different kinds of tariffs. steve forbes, john carney going to try to figure out the tariff story and the stock market story and the little disturbance story. all i know is donald trump gave a phenomenal american greatness stem winder last night, and it was a honey of a speech. i'm kudlow. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪

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and i myself support the reciprocity policy, and i think the unfair trading practices have damaged this country, and something's got to be done about it. anyway, let's talk about it with steve forbes, "forbes" media chair and editor-in-chief, and john carney, breitbart editor, finance and economics and co-there are of "the daily breitbart business digest," which is a fabulous product. start with you, john. the trouble here i don't think is the policy, at least not yet. i'm wondering if the trouble is the lack of kent she. it look -- consistency. it looks a bit disheveled. i don't want to single howard lutnick out because he's an honest guy, 30-year friend of mine. in the morning president trump said i'm we're running the tariffs on canada and mexico -- i'm going to leave china alone,

everybody hates china. usmca. one of his top people comes on our show at 4:00 and says, hang on a second, we're actually going to pause it, more information tomorrow. the information came out. they are, in fact, going to pause the car part of the tariffs, the automaker tariffs, and they tway actually -- they may actually have other exemptions in the next month or so. so what am i saying? i'd like to see a little more predictability, how's that? let me start there. >> yeah, no, i think it's very unhelpful when you're trying to convince the rest of the world that you are very serious about tariffs, that you have a plan to come back on a huge part of that plan the very next day. actually, as you pointed out, not even the next day, just several hours later on your show they are peeling back the tariffs. that really throws a little chaos. remember, one of the big complaints people have about donald trump is they say, oh, it's creating too much unpredictability for businesses

and markets. i've been pushing back against that and saying, no, no, he's explained what he's going to do. this makes it a lot harder to push back on it when the very -- that same day the tariffs come on you say we're going take out the biggest chunk of them, by the way. larry: the car part. usmca. >> it's the biggest part of mexico, that's what they really care about, that's what canada really cares about. look, mexico can deal with some tariffs on avocados. it was the car part that was really holding them, their feet to the fire. taking that away, i'm not really sure what they think they're accomplishing with this now. larry: steve forbes, i want to get your take on it because i know you're less enthusiastic than some about the whole issue of the tariff thing. one other contribution that i made last evening, this is just my personal view. i would have preferred that the tax cuts precede the tariffs. now, that's -- sequentially. that is my -- now, the president disagrees and, you know, he's

the president. in 2017-2018, we got the tax cuts first and then the tariffs came through. now, arguing with respect to the tariffs, a little disturbance. are you concerned that there'll be more than a little disturbance? >> well, a couple of things. one is the high rate, 25%. that is devastating. and you've got a little kind of the blowback that's coming. canada is critical for electricity in certain parts of the united states. what if they slow that down? oil, our refineries are dependent on that heavy oil from canada. what if they slow that down? so they have more cards than i think people realize. the other thing is what you referred to, the unpredictability. you don't know what the rules of the game are. in the case of mexico, i think she took real steps to go against the cartels. she probably, as we're discussing, was delighted to be able to have an excuse to go after the cartels, but she sent back some people that could cost her her life to u.s. justice. so what more do you expect her

to do? lay out what you actually expect, one, two, three, not just vague no more drug. all right. what are some of the specifics? and then on the sequential, you're right, big mistake in 2017. they led off with health care and didn't get a tax bill until the end of the year, so you lost the whole year. but you had a big, nice tax cut going into 2018. they should have gone for the bigger beautiful, fat, juicy tax cut right at the beginning. he should have held their feet. no weekends, let's get this big thing done so at least you have some real typhoon-like winds at your back moving forward so if tariffs come, they're not quite as disruptive as they are with no other -- larry: well, that's the thing. when the president says a little disturbance, i think he's right. i don't want to oversell that because i think i'm with john, i don't think these tariffs are as catastrophic, i mean, i don't see 20% inflation or anything like that. but, okay, little disturbance,

you'll get price hikes, you may get some supply chain disruptions that have to be, you know, rejiggered in the markets and so forth and and so on. but if you have your tax cuts in place -- and, by the way, the investment tax cut, the 100% expensing retroactive to january 1st -- >> that was huge. larry: -- grand slam home run. i know who proposed that inside. i'm not going to name names, but it had been percolating, and i'm glad to see it surface. i think you get your tax cuts in, you're conditioning the economy for whatever little disturbances may occur. you've got, you know, a monetary cushion, if you will. and so the little disturbances get to be even littler, john carney, and i think that's an important point. you don't want this to get out of hand. that's what you want to avoid. >> i actually think one thing the trump administration really should do up right away is put up a dashboard that tells us exactly what tariffs we are paying everywhere around the world. donald trump started to go

through that. i dare anybody to go to the united states government right now, look for a web site that tells us what is india's trade-weighted average tariff on the united states. you can't find it. larry: i actually know what a that is. >> so that's -- i'm, you know, you're a genius. larry: no, it's because i had clothe williams as my deputy, and the guy's a genius, please continue -- cleat williams. >> the tariffs would make a lot more sense to the american people. larry: yes. >> we should have a dashboard, and it could be a dashboard of winning because when we to the reciprocal tariffs and tariffs start to come down, you can show that to the american people. right now it's so not transparent that people have no idea what tariffs we're facing. it was very helpful that donald trump listed a few of them. the white house should get on that. larry: last 30 seconds, steve forbes. also it might be helpful to have a series of what i'll call pass-fail metrics like with canada, all right? pass-fail. mexico.

how do we judge? because we had steve miller on at the beginning of this discussion, i'm going to say a month ago. steve miller, the policy advisor, key guy, old friend. and i said how do you measure canada's progress, how are you measuring mexico's progress, and at that point he was very on the milkic. and -- optimistic. and he said they're both putting 10,000 people on the border to help us, and that was great. but it wasn't enough. it might be useful. presidents don't like to be pinnedded down precisely, i get that. but it might be interesting in the review process for senior staff to sometime show us what the metrics are. >> well, it also helps a government like mexico saying this is what we have to do to avoid this or that. and, therefore, they can say, yeah, we stood up to the u.s. we're not going to get the tariffs put on, but here's what we have to do in the mean type. and inside mexico they don't like the cartels, so they'd like some action on that. so we get win-win even if some of it's behind the scenes. they have to say one thing in public behind the scenes they're very glad to move against the

cartel. larry: we may be on pause for other exemptions, the stock market is feeling a little bettering but we'll see. it's just the beginning. john carney, thank you so much.. steve forbes, thank you so much. coming up, president trump will make america affordable again. we're going to talk about it with agriculture secretary, my dear friend brooke rollins, next up. she knows this story as well as anybody in the country. i'm kudlow. be right back. ♪ are the keys. congratulations. here's the water heater that somehow passed inspection but will definitely flood your basement. -wait. -congratulations. here's your first year's supply of nitrogen fertilizer. remember, not too little or too much or you'll kill your lawn. -okay. -congratulations. here's progressive's homequote explorer. -uh-oh. -you're good. you can quickly compare insurance options and find the right coverage even if it's not with us. what's the bad news? [ indistinct conversations ] i skipped the line.

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larry: all right. joining us, my dear friend, agriculture secretary brooke rollins. madam secretary, brooke rollins, except for me, you're the world's expert on affordability. i'm going to be the number one guy, because that's how to we coined it at our think tank. he's raising an important point. we're suffering, the hangover from the biden economy looks worse and is worse, brooke. we have to live through this last biden bit which looks pretty lousy, and that includes unaffordability. what you thinking here? what are people talking about? >> well, larry, first of all, you're number one in my heart in all cases -- [laughter] not just in affordability. forever and always a, you are my super larry. [laughter] but listen, last night, last night was an amazing night. the president laid out an incredible vision for the country. part of it -- and that was towards the very beginning of the speech he talked about affordability for american families, and that's really

important. under the last administration, joe biden, food prices went up 22%. we're in an egg crisis, if you will, right now. egg prices under joe biden, i'm going to show you my fancy, handy-dandy chart again, went up 237%. if you can see that right there. trump egg prices were very low, trump one. joe biden, way up here. there's a lot of reasons for that, larry, but these are what we have to basically fight right now in inheriting the biden economy and the unaffordability crisis facing america. the president asked me to tackle it head on. last week we rolled out a five-point plan talking about how to bring the prices of eggs down. a big part was deregulation, another part was biosecurity, how we import some eggs in the short term and, frankly, thousand we look at the long -- how we look at the long term, how to fix this problem. the biden administration looked at this avian flu issue a couple years ago, they didn't do anything about it.

now we're looking at it point by point by point and ensuring this doesn't happen again. larry: you know, brooke with, i appreciate what you're trying to do on the egg story. it's a hard story. you inherited that story. >> that's right. larry: some very, very smart people are telling me the jobs number that's coming out, the february jobs number that's coming out friday could be flat, even negative, brookie. the gdp tracker from the atlanta fed is showing, i mean, for the first quarter a -2.5 or -2.8%. and we've had lousy numbers on things like housing and business investment. my generic point here with respect to affordability and the economy is we're going to have to suffer through some bad news. this is -- nothing to do with trump. trump's program's not in yet, and i've got people on the left who are blaming trump. how can you blame trump when he wasn't president when these seeds were planted? >> well, you couldn't be more right about that because we've only been here 30-plus days.

you can't turn an entire economy around if in 30 days. you can't bring the cost of day. it isn't just what we inherited. you look at the cost of inputs, and you have been a super champion on energy and how we get more energy independence, getting it back. but all of this matters. and when you bring the cost of inputs down, it went up 30% under joe biden. listen, the export if markets, we lost the entire market of exporting. we have a $49 billion deficit for our farm products and our farm producers. when we left trump one, larry, four years ago, it was a 0% deficit is. all of these things matter. it will take a little bit of time. you can't do anything overnight. but i think the president's vision he laid out last night, those of us who are on the team again and for the first time realize what we're doing, what's at stake. we're fighting every single day, and it's just going to take a

little bit of time. larry: it was a positive, optimistic stemwinder, madam secretary. loved hearing it. thanks for coming back on, brooke. we appreciate it very much. take care. >> thanks, larry. larry: all right, coming on set, katie pavlich and charlie hurt, cohost of "fox & friends" on the weekend. that's right, congratulations to you. to both of you. we're going to show some clips, by the way. these are white house clips of this young man, this cancer survivor who was at the speech last night, and the democrats couldn't even figure out how to clap for him which was just deplorable. but before we get into the democratic party, katie, we were talking off camera and, look, i talked to jim jordan about this. this was trump's zeitgeist, america knows no bounds. this is like reagan's city on the hill to the 10th or 20th power. this is the kind of optimistic vision of this country's potential that people are yearning for.

to me, stepping back9 from the details, even the tax cut details, i know, i know, i know -- [laughter] that's the real message. folks watching this thing, i mean, it was a long speech. i get that. i had a lot of people saying to me we didn't mind. we didn't mind. we enjoyed hearing it so much. this is what america wants. >> for a long time, americans had a hard time telling stories and being empathetic, and last night president trump was able to tie the stories of everyday americans including d.j., who you just showed was in the oval office who got brain cancer, wanted to be a policeman his whole life and then becomes an honorary secret service agent in front of the entire country. and his badge is handed to him by the secret service agent who escorted donald trump off the stage when he survived the assassination attempt who is now the leader of the secret service

is. the young man who got into west point, for example. that announcement came right after trump talked about the recruiting numbers going through the roof. there's a lot of these good examples of things that are changing, and the president is an amazing communicator as is everybody in his cabinet and all the people working for him. they all know how to talk about the things they're doing. and for a long time, americans felt politicians were just managing the decline of america -- larry: a health care, good point. >> do donald trump is very clear he wants it to stop, and he wants to turn the country around in a way we have been seen for years. larry: well put. and, charlie, this, i think, is a big deal. we're no longer managing declines, we are breaking down boundaries of the future. there's nothing we can't do. >> yeah. and you, it's -- you can understand why democrats are so baffled and confused by this because like you say, you know, they've always been the ones who were able to tell those stories. republicans were always the ones that were unable to tell the stories. and, of course, the democrats

have everybody on their side. they have hollywood on their side, they have the media on their side, they have academia on their side. all of the avenues they need to tell these stories, they're all on their side. and despite all of that and over the objections of many in the republican party and the democratic party, obviously, donald trump comes along and says, no, we're not even flipping the script, i'm taking the script. away from you, rewriting the whole script, and we're going to start singing from a different choir book. and i thought it was his finest speech we've ever seen -- larry: yes. >> and it was so substantive. and when you get a down to d.j. daniel, the 13-year-old, you know, celebrating him because he loves cops? why is that such an important thing? well, we just came, emerged from a period of time where all democrat politicians celebrated a guy that was a crackhead who got arrested for, you know, passing bad bills and celebrated the -- and blamed the cop and is

burned cities to the ground in support of the crackhead and hating cops. and so you have a 13-year-old who loves cops and wants to be a cop, and trump celebrates him. and then it gets very substantive after that where he starts talking about the toxic brain cancer that he has, and he starts talking about bobby kennedy going after the toxins in our air, food and water. larry: i don't want to get hung up on this, but how could people of goodwill, democrats or republicans, not stand up and applaud that? okay? just explain that to me. >> i think i'm the wrong person to try to explain it. [laughter] i can explain a lot of things. last night, i don't understand that. i mean, it just -- if you cannot at least clap, maybe not stand up, i guess, but at least clap -- larry: just give a high sign. >> or a widow whose husband, officer was killed on duty, you can't clap for that, or putting

violent criminal aliens behind bars or making sure women can play their own sports without being violated in their own locker rooms, basic common sense positions, as trump says, and democrats have blown through all of them for some reason. i guess trump derangement syndrome runs deep. i don't know. larry: it just occurs to me, charlie, trump has enveloped the democratic party. he has taken every is single issue away from them. away from them, all right? and they don't know what to do with it except to sneer and, you know, what were they, pin go paddles? >> concern -- bingo paddles? >> it's all a memed out on the internet. larry: he's just surrounded them on all sides. they tonight know what to do. >> yeah. they -- he really has taken every single issue away from them. they're left without any issue whatsoever. but the other thing that donald trump does so magnificently and we've never seen a politician do this, his ability to expose his

enemy, his opponents -- larry: right. >> and he exposes them, and what we saw last night, why could they not clap? because they don't care. they don't care about that boy. they don't care about these issues. they only care about the issues inas a much as they help them get reelected and help them politically. they could give a rat's tail about the american taxpayer, the american citizen, you know, people who want safe streets, who want to be prosperous. they could care less -- they don't care about justice, any of it. the only things they care about is how do i make this issue, turn this this issue? into something that gets me reelecte- larry: are but it's, no. no, no, no, i think all they care about is attacking everything to do with trump. >> yeah. larry: they have not lived that down yet. >> to charlie's point -- larry: i gotta go. >> -- his best thing is allowing them to expose themselves. larry: yes. oh, yes. >> exactly. >> gives them enough rope, and they go for it.

larry: set them free. what is it? what's the line, the napoleonic line? if you're opponent is about to hang himself -- >> defeat themselves, don't get in the way. larry: -- for heaven sakes, tonight get in the way. >> don't interfere. larry: we'll get back to you. katie pavlich and charlie hurt, thank you ever so much. two fabulous people. coming up, ukraine's zelenskyy cries uncle. well, how about that? how about that. we're going to talk about it with the chair of the house foreign affairs committee, mr. brian mast, when "kudlow" returns. ♪ like your workplace benefits and retirement savings. voya helps you choose the right amounts without over or under investing. so you can feel confident in your financial choices voya, well planned, well invested, well protected. greg takes prevagen for his brain and this is his story. hi, i'm greg. i live in bloomington, illinois. i'm not an actor. i'm just a regular person.

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♪ larry: all right. we welcome back to the show the chair of the house foreign affairs committee, mr. brian mast of the great state of florida. brian mast, thank you, sir. so let me just begin, one of mrt night, chairman, is it looks like zelenskyy finally cried uncle. i don't know that he's signed -- did he sign the mineral deal today or not? what can you tell us about that? >> uncle wasn't just by happenstance. it's a direct result of what the president's tone has been with him. hey, we're going to pull the weapons for now, we're going to pull intelligence sharing for now. of you're going to come to the table over a true peace deal,

and we're going get this thing done for a number of reasons and one of those being because we're in the strongest negotiating position right now. on the president's tone, look what it has produced for europe, right? u.k. now saying they're going to put an additional $2 billion every year into defense more. e.u. saying they're going to open up $150 billion defense debt fun. and then the you have germany saying they're going to open up $400 billion in a defense fund, that's all because of rump -- president trump's tone with europe. larry: i don't want to be cynical, too cynical. do you buy europe? do you think they'll a make good on their commitments, brian mast? >> yeah. they're going to make good on these things because they realize what's taking place whether it was j.d. vance at the munich security conference speaking to them, whether it's myself speaking to delegation after deaf division, president trump or, now name it -- delegation. the message has been made very clear. europe, you have to be a partner that that doesn't lean on america like a crutch but a partner that makes us as a true

alliance where you're stronger than -- we're stronger than ever because you're just as strong as us. larry: you know, in our last minute or so, more tariffs on china, 10% plus, 10%, 20%, plus what we did four or five years ago. i was at the g20 meeting in buenos aires with xi jinping and president, and trump said to xi, please make fentanyl production and fentanyl control a capital punishment. and xi jinping said, absolutely. he didn't bat an eye, brian. and here we are four years later plus, actually five years later, and china is the biggest supplier for raw materials for fentanyl and other related drugs. it's a remarkably bad performance. >> yeah. look, president trump's going to keep hammering them. we know that for a fact, and it's going to produce results everywhere. and this is what we know about him, here's going to hammer them, and it's going to be to the benefit of the american

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