♪ if. ♪ rachel: hey, everybody. thanks for joining us, joey -- joey: awesome to have you, as always. rachel: you did a great job. joey: thank you. i'll be back tomorrow. will: we'll see joey origin. the bye, pete. [laughter] ♪ >> mr. gaetz was not on

anybody's bingo card. >> i think what we have to look at is the experience president-elect trump has a had with theth to the of justice. i'm not surprised that the president picked somebody that's going to shake it up. >> i think robert is another disrupter. we need a disrupter. >> matt gaetz's nomination alone is likely to bring chaos to the department of justice. >> i've worked really closely with marco rubio. if you know, we don't always agree, but i have a huge respect for him. i think he's a good choice. >> the matt gaetz one is probably the most controversial, for sure. i do worry about the political capital he would have to spend to get him as cross the finish line. >> these the best individuals available to the incoming trump administration? >> i think the american people voted for dramatic change, and this nominee, some of the other nominees are going to bring us that change. neil: and the change is on as the trump cabinet is shaping up and lawmakers are shaken up,

some of the president-elect's picks facing serious pushback and not just from democrats. fair and balanced, we've got tom emmer and democratic south carolina congressman jim clyburn on the concerns coming from both sides of the aisleful all this as we get more key nominations including donald trump's pick for top money man, more winning. but is the money from the trump bump, we saw the markets running into a serious bump. is it running out? we're on top op of it, all of it. welcome, everybody, i'm neil cavuto. happy saturday, happy weekend. what a busy past week, and we're not done. i don't know if we can fete all this news in two hours, but we're going to try. let's go to bill melugin in west palm beach, florida. donald trump is there. maybe big announcements coming out this weekend. bill, what do you have? >> reporter: yeah, neil, good morning to you. president-elect trump is moving at breakneck speed when it comes to filling in the administration. these picks are coming in at a

rapid-fire pace. he made several announcements yesterday alone. he announced that his press secretary is going to be karoline leavitt. she'll be handling the back and forth with the media at the podium. she'll be the youngest press secretary in history at just 27 the years old. he announced that stephen cheung is going to be his communications director. chung did comms for trump during his campaign, and he m official with the announcement that north dakota governor doug burgum will be sec today of the interior. one of the biggest positions we're still waiting on is, obviously, treasury secretary. the economy was a pinnacle of the trump campaign talking about reducing prices and inflation. two of the names we're hearing are being considered for this position are capital management ceo scott bessent and trump transition co-chair howard lutnick. here's what scott bess sent had to say about the fact that he's being considered -- scott bessent. take a listen. >> thank you. and it's all president trump's decisions. he made great decisions on the campaign. i can't wait for the four years.

>> reporter: so here is where we stand right now. we are now over 20 the picks that have been announced by president-elect donald trump. keep in mind we're less hand two weeks after the election, so he's really moving quickly with these picks. some of the more controversial picks, the ones democrats are kind of up in arms about have been rfk jr., matt gaetz. our colleague, pete hegseth for secretary of defense and tulsi gab a ard -- gabbard for director of national intelligence. the incoming senate majority leader, john thune, republican, told our colleague bret baier that the senate is going to do everything in its power to keep all options on the table to get trump's picks through as fast as possible and get them confirmed. he did add though that one of the options on the table if it comes down to it is they will consider, excuse me, consider recess appointments. that would be a way of skipping those tough senate confirmations, neil. we'll send it back to you.

neil: bill, i'm just curious, obviously, there's been a firestorm of concern, protest the even, even from some republicans over the matt gaetz p. are they ready or are they preparing for the possibility of having to nix that nomination? >> reporter: not from what we're hearing, and we're seeing all these different media reports, new york times, i think nbc has been reporting a large amount of republicans are preparing to oppose gaetz's nomination. but from what we're hearing from trump world, they are full steam ahead, and they are looking to get him into the cabinet. so it doesn't seem like there's any passenger on their end, neil. neil: got it. bill melugin in west palm beach, florida. the flipside of the aggressive reporting is you are in west palm beach, florida. let's call a spade a spade here. tom emmer, at lot of important roles, a key mare for the republicans. you have -- player for the republicans. congressman, very good of you. some of your fellow members have

expressed concern even though you won't vote yea or nay on these to appointments, that's the senate's job, but some of your fellow republicans are saying at least when it comes to the gaetz nomination that that's not going to go anywhere. do you feel that's true? enter well,s, let's face it, neil, donald trump was given a huge mandate by the american people. a little bit more than a week ago. to shake things up here in washington d.c. and there's no question that he's doing that. and when it comes to matt gaetz, let's keep in mind that biden's attorney general, merrick garland, prosecuted his political opponents and went after parents who were peacefully protesting at school board meeting. look, again, donald trump's shaking it up. matt gaetz, he's been a champion for the fundamental rights of all americans in his years on the jewish dish doily committee. he'll be a great a.g. neil: he does look for people, that is the president-elect, to shake things up. but are there others who can do

that as some of your colleagues have said at the the justice department who don't car i the baggage that he does -- carry thing baggage that he the does? >> well, i don't know. people are going to draw different opinions, buts this is donald j. trump's pick. this is not the senate's pick, this is not the house's pick. this is not somebody you like or dislike. donald j. trump has tapped these people, and they are going to shake up washington d.c. it will not be business as usual under this next administration. neil: meanwhile, the house itself has the unique role, and given how slim your majority, a lot of these tax cuts and trying to extend the trump tax cuts that ebb pyre at the end of next year -- expire at the end of next year will start where you are and, actually, with you. so i'm just wanting to get a sense of the timeline on. that's i'm told within the first hundred days you hope to have at least the tax stuff resolved and a tax, you know, a mull the city year tax cut in place --

multiyear tax cut in place. is that likely? >> house republicans are working pretty close with donald trump and his team. you should expect in the first hundred days that we're going to attack the southern border, make sure that our borders are secure. not just the southern border, but all border. we're also going to to get the economy moving again. as donald trump promised. for all americans, not just those with means already. the middle class and folks trying to the chime that economic ladder. -- climb that that economic ladder. we're going to unleash american energy, neil, and then we are going to the make -- extend the trump tax cuts. i don't care if we have 225, 222 the or 218, as long as we have a republican majority in the house, we are going to advance the trump america first agenda. neil: but it is still close, to your point, congressman. i am wondering, we had the famous speaker battles here. do you envision anything like that this go-round?

does it look pretty clear that mike johnson will be speaker again, survive all of this, that the intraparty fighting that was so rampant last go-round doesn't happen this go-round in. >> our leadership team was just elected in our organizing conference this past week, neil. i have no doubt that's the team that is going to lead us over the next two years, and we're going to be very successful. neil: all right. donald trump has chosen a number of representatives, congressmen and women. they have to have quick election replacements to get them in there. does that or worry you that could take only -- some time? >> again, i trust the trump team. it doesn't matter what our number is. as long as we have the majority, or we'll be successful. we'll go with whatever that timing is in each state. neil: congressman, also you know in the role of vivek ramaswamy and elon musk are going to have in weeding out wasteful and excessive spending, hope to cut $the 2 trillion in such spending by essentially showcasing their

progress with the american people. but i noticed in that process it does bypass congress. they look at everything that you guys have been doing in the house and senate, both parties, and they weed out and cite some of these dramatic examples of waste and overspending. but, again, these are non-cabinet positions that wield enormous if power and influence. how do you feel about that. >> it's an advisory board. i think, again, donald trump is thinking outside of the box, and he's saying let's take these two incredibly successful and gifted human beings and let them put together a team of advisers and let him and congress know, this is all the waves, fraud and abuse that this government has been accumulating oh the last three decades. it's time to address it. the american people have spoken. they said we want this taken care of, and donald trump is taking steps to make sure that happens. neil: the way he's going about it, they tout that $2 trillion figure. when they talk about that, congressman, is that taking that $2 trillion out in the first year?

[laughter] >> we'll see what the advisory board comes up with. but it's not just the advisory board that's working on this stuff, neil. members of the house -- i can't speak for the senate -- have been working on this for the past several years. we haven't been in a position to actually do this. the good news is we already have a foundation built with our members that then can work directly with this advisory group to supplement or enharass what's -- enhance what's already been identified. neil: all right. $22 trillion would wane out -- $2 trillion would wipe out the estimated deficit for the year. of course, we still have the debt to deal with, but to address the debt and $36 trillion of that as you know better than anyone, congressman, yo you do have to look at the bigger picture. there's only so much you can do with discretionary spending and the like. the real meat there, or unfortunately concern or fortunately as an opportunity to put forward looking at abuse and fraud and all that are some of the entitlement programs that have their own fat on the bones. that they're not sustainable the

route they're going, social security, medicare, medicaid, all at various times in the next decade could be running out of dough. you republicans are going to tray to come up with ideas working with democrats to sort of assure that they can continue. is that on your, your bingo card right now, to get them in line? >> look, neil, in order to get this thing attacked, this $36 trillion in debt, or $36 trillion in debt, first or you've got to sop the bleeding on an annual basis. which we just talked about. second, it's not just a matter of reforming and right-sizing the size and scope of government and going after the waste, fraud and abuse, but you have to put in pro-growth policies because, obviously, what republicans believe is you can always grow the pie. and one of the greatest places that we can do that is through the new industry known as digital assets whether that's crypto or it's over things

having -- other things having to do9 with the internet. it is the next iteration of the internet which we saw what the first one can did for this country and the world back in the '90s. neil: sure. >> we do all these things together, you can attack that debt very quickly. neil: grow your way out of it the way bill clinton did, newt gingrich, i think that's what you're referring to, sir -- >> not exactly, neil. because they put a muzzle on the animal known as the federal government, and when that muzzle came off, it came back hungry as ever. you are going to have to go after the actual structure of the federal government to right-size it, downsize it, make sure that it's efficient and that it's working for the american people, not for the bureaucrats here in washington d.c. neil: so a part of that structure are those entitlementings. are you saying they are things you're going to look at, everything? >> again, or neil, you want me to get out in front of where president trump is, i'm not going to do that. president trump a's the leader of our party. he'll tell us what he wants. he's got the mandate from the

american people, and we will perform. neil: because he has a said in the past when it comes to social security, don't touch the it. don't even think about it. in the past he's said that. enter yes, he has, but i'm just telling you, he is the leader of our party, and the american people spoke loud and clear. he increased republican votes in 49 out of 50 states. it's unprecedented. neil: okay. we'll watch what happens. congressman, very good seeing you. have a happy weekend. tom emmer, the house majority whip. want to take you to lima, peru, where you'll find lucas tomlinson traveling with president joe biden who has an opportunity for his final meeting with xi jinping of china. what's the latest, lucas? >> reporter: well, good morning, neil. when president biden came here to peru, he was not the guest of honor fl we'll tell you who was after the break. starting a business is never easy, but starting it eight months pregnant.. that's a different story. i couldn't slow down. we were starting a business from the ground up.

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neil: all right, this could be joe biden's last big foreign trip as president of the united

states. he leaves office in less than a couple of months right now. heath in lima, peru, with some other world leaders, but he is not the rock star there. lucas tomlinson knows who is. >> reporter: that's right, neil, good morning. it's not often the president of the united states makes an international trip and is not the guest of honor. that's been afforded to chinese president xi jinping. we're going to have a split screen to show the viewers president xi and president bind's aroofl. there was president xi with the red carpet rolled out for him, an honor not bestowed to president biden when he arrived in lima earlier. china is peru's largest trading partner. china's president was feted at the state palace, the presidential palace had the honor of a state visit complete with the military honor guard as you can see here and more red carpet. no question biden's lame duck discuss playing a role here, neil. while at the palace, president xi and peru's president watched

on a live feed the opening of china's new $11.3 billion -- 1.3 billion mega port if two hours north of where i'm standing for. investment expected to top $if 3.55 billion over the next decade. colby who served in the pentagon policy role previously said a mess awaits trump when he's inaugurated. >> i think the really important thing that i would stress here is how bad the world situation is that joe biden is leaving to donald trump. and people have to understand that we're in a world of tough choices. we're kind of tough, clear-eyed but not necessarily pretty decisions are going to have to be made because we can't solve all the world's problems. >> reporter: president biden will meet chinese president xi jinping here in lima at 4 p.m. eastern time in what will likely be their last face to face meeting, neil. neil: thank you, my friend. lucas tomlinson in arena,

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♪ neil: all right, donald trump has moved faster than any president-elect in history assembling a cabinet right now. he's almost done with it, maybe four or five other positions to go here, but essentially done. that does not mean that all of his choices to to date are essentially in like flynn. let's get the read from phil

wakeman, real clear politics white house reporter. phil, a couple of names come up. obviously, the real attention at this point is on his attorney general pick. and even a number of republicans aren't afraid to say this is not happening, this is so not happening. what that pick at this time, what do you think? >> well, my sources in the senate tell me that form former florida representative matt gaetz is taking this seriously. there was some speculation that his retirement from congress was only an attempt to keep the report from coming out of the house ethics committee, that he wasn't actually serious about the attorney general job and that this was a ploy for him to increase his horizons when it comes to other political tons. but gaetz is already speaking to senate republicans, he's calling their offices asking to set up meetings and plea his case. and i've got to tell you, this seems like the culmination of his ambition. this certainly seems like something he would want. the internet is full of all sorts of clips of him in committee holding the judiciary

department's feet to the fire, ands this is what donald trump says that he wants. he wants a fighter, and gaetz is sort of the arch-type, maga warrior. he's grown up in all of this. we'll see if he can get confirmed no. -- though. neil: donald trump, of course, had been saying his pick should be just a yea or nay, very, very quickly. trying to not drag this out. how feasible is that that? for any of them? >> yeah. you mention mentioned a moment ago that this transition has moved with tremendous speed, and that's correct. it's a significant contrast to the first time donald trump came to washington d.c. he's not a political novice anymore. he knows who his people are, and he wants to get them into positions of power. the question now is whether or not the is going to play ball. and we heard from majority leader-elect thune that, you know, all options are on the table and that his question at

this point is whether or not democrats play ball. of course, though, at issue is not democrats. they're going to to oppose the majority of these picks if not all of them. the question is how many defections can the incoming majority leader have from the republican side. and, certainly, someone like matt gaetz who, frankly, has his enemies in the upper chamber, he's going to put that to the test. neil: yeah. and two of those are republicans, lisa murkowski and susan collins, republicans both. i guess you can only afford to lose four, right, with the vice president playing a tie-breaker role there. but i do wonder whether even among republicans that's not such a sure bet. >> yeah. and, you know, the simple arithmetic that you laid out a second ago is very important because if these picks aren't able to go through with that vote, then as you mentioned the incoming president, he's very open to the idea of recess appointments. he's put in the leg are work

already. he wants the senate to move quickly. but the expectation is that republicans who would havish show with these individual nominees -- issue with these individual nominees, perhaps they the also would take issue with the idea of voting to go into recess and essentially giving, you know, president trump a free hand. we should know, of course, that recess appointments have not been used for cabinet picks, so this would be a bit of a break with precedent. and all of these members of congress, they know that essentially what they're doing right now could just as quickly be done against them in the future. they know that they are greasing the skids for a democratic administration to do the same thing if, after four years of donald trump, a democrat succeeds him in the oval office. neil: and to your point, democrats have done this as well, recess appointments. barack obama after the supreme court. be that as it may, we're looking at a house that's going to be kind of as tight as it was in the last session in the next session s. and i'm told by people like congressman emmer,

the majority whip, that they're not going to have any of these fights or squabbles over the speakership or, you know, the kevin mccarthy deals that they had in the past. they've even locked in assurances that it can't be just one representative who can start the vacate move going, that they've taken steps to avoid that. do you agree with that, that they have avoided it? >> well, certainly, matt gaetz is no longer in the house, and so he wouldn't be able to lead that type of effort. i think the mood is fundamentally different though for two reasons. first, you know, as emmer said to you a moment ago, the incoming president, he has a mandate, and it's going to be pretty difficult for the right flank of any speaker to slam the brakes on things and then explain to their voters at home why they're stopping work in congress. i think the other thing though is, you know, right now it does seem that speaker johnson and donald trump are in lockstep.

johnson has not broken from him. we saw the, you know, former president sort of rescue him during the last challenge -- neil: right. >> and, you know, at mar-a-lago during his victory speech president trump was more than complimentary of johnson. i think that, you know, both of these guys realize that if they want to get across the finish line some of the big lifts that they're going to have to be working in concert, and, you know, not only has donald trump sort of remade the republican party in his own image, now there are no more anti-trump republicans, at least not ones in positions of power in congress that i can think of. neil: that's a very good point right there. that's the big change right there. phil, great seeing you. phil wegmann. >> thank you, sir. neil: we poke with a top republican about this process as we get ready for president donald j. trump returning to the oval office. james clyburn, south carolina democrat, feels confident about a one joe biden and what he makes of what's going on aftertd

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♪ neil: all right, that is an rare look at the cabinet that at least donald trump wants right now. some secondary depp by officials -- deputy official, but the bottom line, the key players he wants. no president-elect has moved so fast assembling a team, or trying to, and get the senate to write off on it. we've got james clyburn here, friend of joe biden, confidant, made it possible for joe biden to be president of the united states. congressman, good to have you. i just wonder, i've asked other democratic leaders who have appeared here what they think went wrong. i'd like to get your thoughts. what went wrong for democrats? >> first of all, thank you very much for having me. neil: thank you.

>> well, you know, we had a very truncated process, no question about that. we had a candidate that was the vice president for four years, in the senate before that, statewide office holder in california. but still when you're vice president, you're there to carry out the agenda of the president. so the the time needed to develop an individual identity was not there. 107 days in our system is just not enough time. plenty enough time over in england, but not much time here in the united states -- neil: do you think she was just a lousy candidate though, congressman? that you would have been better off sticking with joe biden? >> i said i was riding for biden as long as he was in the race, but if he ever changed his mind, i would be all in with kamala harris. because you don't have enough time does not mean you're a

lousy candidate. she was not a lousy candidate. she was a great candidate, a great resumé. but in some people's minds, anybody that's not white and male is lousy. and we know that to be the case in this country -- neil: do you really believe that, congressman? >> absolutely. neil: -- maybe the the last two women we had were not americans' cup of tea. we've seen senators as congressman, senators, governors, female leaders of countries all over the world from maggie thatcher, merkel, maybe the problem is we always hi the woman has to be a democrat or a liberal. history seems to suggest that we eventually get a female president, it'll come from the republican ranks. what do you think? [laughter] >> well, that's your take on it, then that's fine. i know you very well, or neil -- neil: but, no, i have no axe to grind here. i guess what i'm saying is maybe

she was a lousy candidate, her gender had nothing to do with it. she missed opportunities to speak on other shows, she seemed to be overly cautious. maybe too much so as if she was sitting on a 10-point lead. she wasn't. >> well, that 's your take on it. mine is different. i'm enough of a man to allow you to have your ache. and -- your ache the. and i hope you are enough of a man -- neil: no, no, fair enough. >> okay. neil: does the party have to do a reassessment? you're a great student of political history yourself, congressman. after michael dukakis lost in 1988, that was the third big presidential election democrats lost by a landslide, and i can remember publications talking about the long winter to come for democrats. four years later along comes someone like a bill clinton to rewrite the book on that. and the math. and he challenged the more liberal establishment and went after people like sister

soldier, iconic figures in the democratic party, and the next thing you know, he's president of the united states. do you need a candidate or a position thatted moderate, that doesn't seem as liberal? >> the well, you said along came bill clinton. well, along came, who was it, i guess it may have been ronald reagan that went the opposite way from what had previously been the case -- neil: fair enough. >> these things happen. the swings are there. we go from left to right in this country, right back left in this country. and i always say whether the pendulum is going from left to right or right to left, it always passes through the middle. and so it seems to me that the we camp out twice as much time as we -- in the middle as we do to the right or the left. now the country is lurching back

to the right. i hope it's not going as a far right as that which happened in germany in the 1930s which you may remember i forewarned way a back in 2018 that the i saw this coming. i've studied history all of my life. i mean, since being a preteen. i've been enamored with this country's history, and i can tell you what i said back in 2018 on another network is now coming to pass. people chastised me for saying it at that time, but now they are seeing it -- the. neil: how are we seeing it? he's not president yet. i mean, are you envisioning another hitler? is that what you're saying? >> that's exactly what i'm saying. i said the 1930s in germany. neil: yes, you did. >> and, of course, we can go the mussolini in italy. these things -- neil: so you don't think that's a little hype bolick? >> you -- hyperbolic? >> you may think so. neil: okay. >> i'll tell you what's

hyperbolic, is asking the senate to approve all your nominees without any vetting. that's what's hyperbolic. and if you -- if the senate were to do that, it would be ceding everything this country's built upon. the checks and balances that have been in this country from its very beginning. and let me just tell you, we're getting ready to celebrate our 250th anniversary as a nation. i want to remind you how we celebrated our 1000th concern 100th anniversary as a nation. if you give 1776 as being the founding of this country, 1876 is when this country took a big lurch, right-wing lurch that led to jim crow. neil: could i ask you this though, congressman, i know what you're saying about these recess appointments and your concern about them. very different case, i understand. but barack obama had his own recess appointments, so we've seen on the left or the right -- >> for a cabinet? for his cabinet? neil: so that's where you draw

the line, that this is going too far. >> absolutely. this is his administration. and it's built into -- you know, yeah, i admire your ability to try to change the subject, but we are talking about his cabinet if here9 of. neil: and you don't think it applies to that. i'm not trying to the change any subject right or left, but i want to ask you this, congressman, because i was told and i could be wrong, sir, that you had advised joe biden against this early debate last summer with donald trump. again, i might be wrong on that. but had he heeded that advice and, again, it was your advice among others who said it was a little too soon to kick off a presidential debate, things could have been very different. certainly, there would have been still joe biden as the democratic nominee. maybe a different result. what do you think? >> well, i don't know, it may have been different, but i didn't offer any if such advice. i don't know where that came from. neil: okay. i apologize. >> i was not a part of the

campaign. neil: but in retrospect, do you find that was a mistake? that early summer debate long before the traditional fall start of debates was perilous? >> everything that goes wrong in a campaign is a mistake. [laughter] what you do, when it goes right, it's a brilliant idea. when it goes wrong, a mistake. and so we -- if that's the case, a lot of mistakes were made in this campaign because a lot of things went wrong. neil: congressman, let me ask you this, i talked to the teamsters' president, shaun o'brien, he spoke before the republicans convention, wanted the same opportunity in the democrats' convention, never got it. he had said the democrats spoiled a lot of things by not reaching out to the common man and woman, went so far as to say that people like nancy pelosi and chuck schumer should just hang it up, should leave, that their time has come and gone and that they've cone the party a huge -- done the party a huge

disservice. what did you think of that? >> well, i do not believe that the democratic party has walked away from working men and women. all you have food is look at the agenda da. -- to do is look at the agenda. people like to pick grocery, i like to pick medicine. when you look at inflationary costs, sure, grocery costs ran away, and we couldn't to do much about that. but medical carry and the cost of medicine with was running away, and we did a lot about that. the cost of education, running away. but we did a lot about that. so everybody can pick and choose what field they would like to play on. and sometimes you have to play the cards that you're dealt. and i think that joe biden was dealt a set of cards, he play them very, very well. and the ones he did not play well were the ones he did not have control over. he had no control over grocery prices, but he did have --

neil: well, he did. he did have control. he didn't have to do all this spending to exacerbate things, right? >> no, we did the not have to do all this spending, and we could have stayed mt. gag quagmire if -- in the quagmire we were in, we were left with the redness of that pandemic that was so mismanaged -- neil: you don't think he did anything wrong himself, that he was not only a lousy candidate, but that he overdid things in the beginning? whatever happened, the american people blamed him and kamala harris. >> look, sure, joe biden did wrong. you've done a whole lot of wrong. i've done a whole lot of wrong. that's not the case. when you do something that a doesn't work, it's wrong. and he did some things that did not work. neil: fair must have. >> so that was wrong. he did a lot of things that did work. it was good. and it all a happens to whatever works is good, what doesn't work is bad. you just hope that you have more things that work good than bad.

that's all you can hope for in this business. neil: you're right about that. congressman, always great having you on. and if i appreciate the fact that you cokeep coming on. we admire that and admire you with. james clyburn, south carolina, a very pivotal state when it comes to the nominates progress of getting things going. meanwhile, this is thanksgiving week coming up not too far away. nasty weather coming too. we'll spell it all out after this.

neil: all right, thanksgiving closing in and so is some nasty weather. rick reichmuth here to remind you of that. what are we looking at? rick: are we've got some nasty weather, but we desperately need moisture across parts of the northeast, and we're going to get it. another thing, we thought we might be having a hurricane in florida again, here towards the end of hurricane season, this is sara. it is not going to have impacts

in florida. the west coast of florida is not going to happen. it's going to pull off across belize and across the yucatan. it will dissipate by the time it gets back into the gulf, so no big problems. a lot of rain still to come across parts of central america. but once gets into the gulf, it'll generally just be moisture that is going to get pulled into the front that's coming that i'll show you in a second. we have fire alerts again, so incredibly dry as cross parts of the northeast, and we have four fires that have been causing problems across parts of new jersey. people don't think of new jersey as a place that gets forest fires. it because, and it getss when you have this, we are in the buyest -- driest fall ever. when you look at the current satellite ray garre -- radar, we're still predicted -- protected by this ridge of high pressure. we're about to see some changes. this little disturbance, a lot of moisture in the pacific northwest, this is going to turn

into a storm that by tomorrow brings a lot of rain across parts of the south. areas of texas, throughout oklahoma and in towards kansas, 2-3 inches of rain, maybe a little needing with this. severe weather as well. but this is all a storm system that is going to trek off towards the east. as it because, it'll start to pull in some very cold air by the time we get towards mid to late next week, coldest air of the season across parts of the far northern plains and throughout much of this next week we've got rain eventually coming towards the mid-atlantic and northeast. we desperately need it, neil, and hopefully this is a pat earp-breaker so we concern pattern-breaker so we get some more storms behind this one as well. neil in. neil: thank you. we have a rot more coming up including getting a read of a certain report, ethics report that mike johnson does the not want to release on matt gaetz. senators want to at least see it. they can't, not yet. not now. not happening. there are

>> the report is, apparently, many some draft form and was going to be released on what is now a former member of the house. i do not believe that is an appropriate thing. it doesn't follow our rules and tradition, and there is a reason for that. it would open a pandora's box. i don't think that's healthy start fusion. neil: -- for the institution. neil: the speaker of the house making it clear the report on one matt gaetz is a finished issue since he's already resigned as a house member. it might not be quite that simple. we've got john yoo with us,, former deputy assistant official, he's the whole she bang. if john, what do you make of that? is it a9 moot point right now?

the senate needed some republican members who would at least like to get the details of that report, but it doesn't look, if the speaker has his way, that's going to happen. >> let me put on my hat as a former general counsel to the senate judiciary committee under orrin hatch. the senators will say we still have the right to vote on the confirmation of the attorney general, and we have the right to demand whatever information the government has produced. just like we would get an fbi background check, we also want to see this person's house ethics report, and they could even go as far as and say if you don't produce that a report, we're going to vote him down. we're not going to how them to be -- him to be confirmed. president trump's response is going to be, well, i want a recess appointment. he needs the house and the senate to disagree about when they adjourn and go into recess. this provision that president trump's talking about has never been used before, so we don't know what would happen, for example, if the senate just said we're coming back into session right away, in a millisecond

after president trump puts us into recess, and that might throw for two years matt gaetz's appointment into constitutional doubt. now, i can understand president trump wants to engage in reform of the justice department and the fbi, but if you have an attorney general whose every action is challenged in court for the next two years, that that actually will throw back president trump's agenda. neil: so back to this report, i mean, if it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen. can senators force the issue or given their majority in the senate now, will they even bother? >> yes. if the senators could say we demand to see the report and if we don't get the report, then matt gaetz gets no vote. the senators have cone similar things with ebb delaware branch nominees in the past. they have every right. the confirmation power is only theirs. for example, they could say we want to see in closed session any kind of security clearance report for a nominee. if we don't get it, hen they

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