exchange commission, the fcc is suing elon musk, alleging he failed to disclose purchasing more than 5% of twitter stock in a timely manner. the sec claims this allowed musk to continue buying twitter shares at lower prices. a lawyer for musk tonight says he has done nothing wrong and calls this case a sham. >> bret: tomorrow on "special report," new fox polling on president-elect trump, president biden, favorability ratings, plus top concerns for voters as we get ready to head for inauguration. just days away. remember, if you can't catch us live, set your dvr 6:00 p.m. in the east. 3:00 p.m. on the west coast. follow me on instagram and x at bret baier. all kinds of stuff on there. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced and still unafraid. "the ingraham angle" is now. >> laura: good evening, everyone i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. as always, thank you for joining us. swamp wine.

that's the focus of tonight's angle. >> laura: now, what makes official washington nervous? especially the bureaucracy protectors and the democrat party are true change agents? people with the guts, people with the determination to challenge the status quo. >> two months ago 77 million americans gave president trump a powerful mandate for change. to put america first. at home and abroad. i don't have a similar biography to defense secretaries of the last 30 years. but as president trump also told me we have repeatedly placed people atop the pentagon with supposedly the right credentials and where has it gotten us? he believes and i humbly agree, that it's time to give someone with dust on his boots the hem. a change agent. >> then children and small dogs had to cover their ears because the sound from the democrats on the committee was classic. i think was kind of unpleasant

mix of resignation and bitterness. we bring you the swamp whine. >> yes or no did you need an audit. >> yes or know did you need an audit. what are you afraid of? you can't answer this question? yes or no did you need an audit? do you not know this answer? >> senator, every. >> yes or no. >> every part of please ply glip yes or no did you need an audit. i will take that as a. >> no you said in your statement, you don't want politics in the dod, everything you have said in these public statements is politics. i don't want women. i don't want moms. what's wrong with a mom by the way? once you have babies you are therefore no longer able to be lethal? >> you are quite sure that every general who serves should not go directly into the defense industry for 10 years? you are not willing to make that same pledge? >> i'm not a general, senator. [laughter] >> laura: to watch the democrats, it was painful to watch that but, look on the

bright side. hegseth hasn't even been sworn in yet, and he is already discovered a new tech unique for enhanced interrogation. let's just force all those high value prisoners still at gitmo, the few that are left, to listen to this. [talking at the same time] >> laura: angus king from maine get me out of here. all right. they are all screeching because they all know pete hegseth is going to be confirmed. so today was purely political theater. >> have you also denigrated members of the lgbtq community. >> laura: they loathe hegseth because instead of being a puppet of the hill, hegseth will actually implement trump's policies. now, that will be a marked change from the first administration when the military leadership and senior aides often resisted trump's agenda. they were rod looks to it.

thee own that hill, senior white house aide. remember she had worked for george w. bush and obama chimney sweep john bolton who is batting zero on most of his predictions. and then there is alexander vindman who triggered the first trump impeachment. is he a hero of the left. and then there were the generals, millie mcmaster and mattis. they were all highly credentialed, served their country proudly, highly educated and often spectacularly wrong. but setting aside their post 2020 nastiness it often seems like they thought they were the commanders in chief not trump. like they felt that they knew more than he did. but, really they are all just stuck in a cold war mentality. the fact is, america, even with our selfless brave truths has not been able to win a major war outright since world war ii. think about it, that's wild.

trillions of dollars in spending, then we lose you though sands of our best troops in iraq and afghanistan, fight essentially to a draw. forever wars that triggered new problems. and instead of talking about the need and examining all of this, need for real military reform. instead of preparing to work with president trump on ways to make our pentagon more efficient, the best senate democrats could do today was fringe fear-mongering and gotcha nonsense. >> did you take your staff, including young female staff members to a strip club? >> absolutely not. names smear. >> so you can't tell me whether someone who has committed a sexual assault is disqualified from being secretary of defense? >> senator, i know in my instance, and i'm talking about my instance only, it was a false claim. >> will you resign as secretary of defense -- >> -- i made this commitment on behalf of the men and women

serving because most important. >> not answering my question so i'm going to move on. >> laura: flipping pages. then senator markwayne mullin came in for the slam dunk. >> how many senators have showed up drunk to vote at night? [laughter] have any of you guys asked him to step down and resign from their job? and don't tell me you haven't seen it because i know you have. and then how many senators do you know have got a divorce for cheating on their wives? did you ask them to step down? no. but it's for show. [applause] now, ouch. and, of course, it would not be a senate confirmation hearing without the liberal female senators obsessing on their favorite subject, abortion. >> current dod policy allows service members and eligible dependents to be reimbursed for

travel associated with non-covered reproductive healthcare, including abortions. will you maintain this common sense policy? >> senator, i have always been personally pro-life. i know president trump has as well and we will review all policies. but our standard is whatever the president wants, on this particular issue and advice i will take a look at. i don't believe that. >> this policy will not be maintained, you will not enable our service members to seek reproductive care? >> i don't believe the federal government should be. >> i'm not hearing answers to my questions, mr. chairman. >> laura: you ever wonder for a second when you watch these hearings -- we watch them so you don't have to. but when you are watching these hearings and you wonder what would happen if they lost their pages in front of them? i have to read a teleprompter right? but i write my script. but if you haven't written your questions and you rely on an aide to write your questions. what happens when the papers go away? they should take away all papers

and let the whole thing go that way for a while. that would be fun to watch. but, i'm sorry, that's lazy mazy hirono. and in a trump administration, will not be considered a core mission of our military, thank you very much foundationed on the issues that actually matter. china, our cybersecurity, all the things that our military needs to get a handle on let's clear foibles or managerial skills they want to stop him because he will implement trump's agenda, period. which includes a pentagon accountability project. >> accountability is coming. because everybody in this room knows if you are a rifle man and you lose your rifle, they are throwing the book at you. >> um-huh. but if you are a general who loses a war you get a promotion.

that's not going to happen in donald trump's pentagon what else won't happen? pentagon worries about fighting climate change more than fighting our enemies. >> my secretary of the navy should i be climates change in the navy. like the secretary of the air force won't be focused on lg fighterred jets. won't be focused on electric powered tanks. >> at that point steam was coming out of chief princess running mouth warren's ears. of course, democrat activist that it was all on -- they bet the farm on mainstreaming transgenderism in our military. they thought that was here to stay. they're livid. they are livid that hegseth will get the woke out of our war fighting,including at our service academies. you have to rip root and branch the politics and divisive policies out of these

institutions. and then focus them on creating and preparing actual future military leadership. when that changes, senator, i truly believe under donald trump we will have a recruiting renaissance. >> laura: boy we need a recruiting renaissance. we are down what, 60, 70,000? and we need a military that knows how to kill our enemies and win our wars because as hegseth said, time and again today, the u.s. military is not a social program. it's not a charity, and it's not supposed to promote a particular ideology. it exists to defeat the enemies of the united states of america, period. and for too long we have gotten away from that mission. and the results have been absolutely disastrous. for us, and for the world. today for the first time in years we can actually see what a reformed and successful military would actually look like. and that's the angle. joining me now senators markwayne mullen and tom cotton

both sit on the senate armed services committee and were there today. senator mullin, let's start with you. now your colleague joni ernst just announced that she will back hegseth. that is huge do you anticipate my republican deconnection given how well hegseth did today? i think pete nailed it thank you for having me on by the way. i wasn't surprised at all for johnny making that announcement. i thought she played her hand write she did exactly what she was going to do. and hold until the hearing. she came out immediately and said she was going to support because of the performance pete hegseth had today. and do you know what happens with susan collins and lisa murkowski i think they both said they want to listen to the hearing, too. i know susan personally paid close attention to it. i believe without question pete is going to be confirmed. and i think you're going to have a strong support from all the republicans, men and women

alike. i think he is the right person for the job. and president trump did a wonderful job by picking him to be the next secretary of defense. >> laura: senator cotton, i think americans who caught little snippets of this today were shocked, frankly, to find out that we are doing a lot of this woke stuff in the military. people don't cover it like we do and follows ever iteration of a change in policy in the military but really it has hurt in many ways our military readiness and hurt our recruiting which i think he talked about today. >> yeah, laura, unfortunately political correctness run amok and social engineering has harmed our military, therefore, harmed our national security. as you said it's probably declined recruiting numbers to the point that we are at a recruiting crisis and it's harmed readiness. look, our troops don't deserve the pronouns on their i.d. tags. they don't need to do privilege

walks. they don't have to go through repeated training sessions about diversity, equity and inclusion. hard realistic training to help them to prepare them to defend this nation at war time. the kind of training that pete hegseth has conducted and that he has run. that's one of the reasons why donald trump picked him to be secretary of defense and stuck with him through thick and thin. pete is going to have the requisite number of votes in the senate. when that happens i hope democrats will not delay or otherwise obstruct this nomination. if they want to vote against him, that's fine. but president trump deserves to have his secretary of defense on the job promptly. >> and, senator mullin, schumer claims that hegseth is unfit for the job. watch. >> he is, by outward appearance, woefully unfit for a job like secretary of defense.

unfortunately for mr. hegseth, his testimony thus far has failed to address the disturbing questions that plague his nomination it. appears mr. hegseth's strategy is to follow the five d's of dodge ball, dodge, duck, dip, dive, and dodge. >> laura: ha ha ha. this is unserious -- unserious former senate majority leader. is he reading his remarks. he can't even speak, you know, extemporaneously about such an important confirmation battle. and that's the best he can do? >> well, what's unfortunate is where was chuck schumer calling out the president of the united states currently? president biden who is woefully unfit to serve and. >> laura: you bet. >> he has followed the five d's by dodging reporters for the last four years that his staff at the white house openly covering the left media opening covering for him. where was the callout? the hypocrisy that runs through the democrat party is so thick

it's laughable. i mean, what about rachel in the undersecretary inside of hhs who doesn't even know her own pronoun or sam the guy who worked in the department of energy who couldn't figure out his own luggage. or if you want to talk about being unqualified, pete hegseth, the -- not pete hegseth, i'm sorry. pete buttigieg, the gentleman that is over the department of transportation. the gentleman who true was a mayor and now is he over transportation. where were their callout on those individuals, right? it doesn't matter as long as it applies to them because, listen, if you are a democrat you are qualified for everything, evidently. >> laura: senator cotton, if they thought that hegseth was going to be a big stumbling block for trump, they probably wouldn't have given him much trouble at this hearing. and they were pathetic today. nothing hit pete. i mean they think he is actually going to do what trump directs him to do with consultation with military experts. but that's what they are really worried about, correct?

>> yeah. they are, laura. just look at the issue i discussed with pete today. that's women in ground combat roles. people have talk about women in combat. women have been in combat for a long time as pilots, medics or mechanics. talk about infantry and artillery and there are certain reducible commands. nothing pete hegseth will do make a machine gun weigh less than 47 pounds. not make artillery shell less than 100 pounds. the shoulder weigh less than 250 or even 300 pounds. those are irreducible physical demands. we need high and gender neutral standards for those jobs to make sure that all of our troops are safe and ready to fight. the democrats though kept coming back to the issue because they don't care about that. they would rather have social engineering and quotas to meet their desired instate as to having a fit, ready, fighting force to defend this nation. >> laura: well, i think senator mullin, one thing that most

americans do want is and end to these forever wars. i know there is a big debate still, i guess. kind of. in the republican party where people just want to keep shoveling money at the pentagon, 900 billion and counting, no audit. and they were getting on him for an audit today. but most people are like this is not 1984 or 2004. we are out of money and we have to smartly budget in every department, including the pentagon. >> that is right. what we have to do is got refocused. got to get refocused inside of america and say what is our wants and what is our needs? our needs is to have a strong military. we got to have peace through strength, right? president trump brings that to the white house. we got to have a military that's capable and able to back that up. that doesn't mean we continue to throw money at it. we are wasting a tremendous amount of money. billions of dollars inside the pentagon. and we have got to get a handle on it. i think that's why they fear when you have somebody like pete hegseth, who is willing to go in there, because he doesn't come from the rank and file, he doesn't come from just racking

and stacking someone else to come in and carry on as usual. he is going to bring change. and that's why they also fear elon because they are going to go in there and figure out where the money is going to. we waste so much money and, yet, they can't tell us where it's going. it's the only place in the world that you can be overbudget and behind on delivery on a project that you bid and still get rewarded more and more money to do it. it's absolutely absurd. that doesn't work in the private sector. >> laura: yeah. well, senator cotton, do you believe that the pentagon will finally pass an audit? it's failed seven times? with hegseth at the helm? >> i hope so. pete said today that was a priority of his. as markwayne says there are certain things we need to spend commercial office technology. software solutions that are readily available. we don't need our military trying to design new systems. there is other things that we need to do to stop bad past

practices like cost plus contracts that encourage cost overruns and budget overruns. there is a lot we can do inside the pentagon to eliminate waste and inefficiency and reinvest that money into the tools troops need and for that matter more troops. >> laura: our manufacturing policy shouldn't be a give away to china under any circumstances and then shift the focus to china only to enrich china on the other side. that's also, i know, a priority of this administration. senator mullin, i know you helped prep pete, good job there and senator cotton as always, thank you very much. and just ahead, can california's liberal leaders actually be trusted? with what more than $100 billion of your money? of your money? next. you can rely on us for energy to power your growing economy and for critical minerals crucial to new technologies. we're here, right by your side. [title: ontario, canada] [title: ontario.ca/partner] [title: paid for by the government of ontario]

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♪ >> laura: the climate change agents have boxed themselves into a corner. now, they are defending california democrats against criticism that they didn't properly prepare for the wildfires on grounds that there was really nothing elected officials could have done. >> there was a fire catastrophe in california. had winds. how they are always saying the wind. it actually does. the winds move things and sparks move things. and it doesn't matter how much water you have if 900,000

buildings go up at the same time. it's too soon-to-be saying oh it's gavin's fault. it's nobody's fault. >> laura: if that's the case that it's not really anyone's fault, would would any sensible person, certainly any middle income earner remain in california? if claiming misinformation or throwing up your hands is the only answer to every legitimate question about why these fires raged out of control for so long, without, you know, enough water and so forth, then we should just expect a mass exodus from california. certainly all the people who were affected. it doesn't matter how much is thrown at the rebuild because, look, no one could have prevented it, it could happen again. and who wants to go through that hell another time? but, a depopulated california isn't what anyone should want because that would lead eventually to the state's financial collapse. republicans, i think, when you really look at it are far more

optimistic for california's future. because we believe that a return to basic common sense is what's desperately needed here. that means new leadership. goodbye dei and sanctuary cities and hello excellence in america first. then, and only then, will there be a real chance to return the golden state to its glory days. the 80's. the early 90's. >> again, common sense is the theme here. you know, if gavin and local leaders made decisions that made this disaster expenally worse, which appears there were. should there be some consequence to that? should there be some safeguard in the funding? >> laura: safeguard on the funding. they went crazy about that today. well, when democrats are in charge, we know they do stupid things like shut down a wildfire prevention project to protect a shrub back in 2019 l.a. city leaders planned to replace wooden power poles with steel ones after the area was

identified as an elevated fire risk but, an amateur button news complained that it endangered bush was going to be effected so the project was shut down now, look. there is no converting 99% of these diehard california leftists. these green, woke, pro-illegal alien corrupt democrats, they have to be sent packing out of politics at least you need a tol new change in approach and political leadership. joining me now alabama senator tommy tubervilleville who wants conditions on any aid that goes to california now senator, i want everyone to understand thii believe the people that need help should get it.

claiming the republicans are playing politics with disaster aid. watch. this does these fires burn around los angeles political fights are also raging. house speaker mike johnson suggesting that any aid to california maybe should come with conditions because of the decisions of leaders made before and during the fires. >> laura: talk to the maryland governor about that and that was just horrible that people like you, senator, would put any strings on these -- this aid after this devastating fire -- fires. >> what a disaster, laura. you know, they have no governance there. they have no leadership. you see what's going on in all these blue cities and blue states around the country and they just got outed again in california they get outed every year of what they have done and what they have not done. schumer, since i have been here has been their sugar daddy. bailed them out with the cairs act in 2021. 30, billion dollars bail them out because

they are dead broke. turn around with the inflation reduction act. we did the same thing a couple years ago bailed them out again. folks, their sugar daddy is gone. donald trump is the new sheriff in town. they have nobody to pay their bills. they will have to go donald trump and say we need your help. and that's fine. we will help them but there has got to be some stipulations, laura, on what we do, how we do it, when we do it, and what we're going to get out of it. the american taxpayers are sick and tired of watching what is going on out there with people that are stealing the money, no governance and have no clue what they're doing. >> laura: you get the sense as with most big government projects, senator, that the money will be going to friends and people who are politically connected or have the same environmental agenda even though today karen bass and yesterday gavin said oh no, we are going to streamline a lot of this permitting. i don't think they have any credibility on any of that not with our tax dollars.

>> no. what is going to have to happen the new epa director that president trump is going to bring in, he is going to have to get involved. he is going to have to get involved in what is going on in california. it's obvious that these people have no clue whatsoever of what to do, how to do it. and so our new epa director can get involved in this, put some stipulations down on how we're going to help them. and, again, as you said, we need to help california. it is a beautiful state. unfortunately, a lot of that state don't believe in all this blue madness. but, we're going to help everybody out. and, unfortunately, the american taxpayers across the country are going to have to pay that even the people in north carolina, that are under devastation as we speak, in hawaii as we speak. it's just absolutely amazing. >> laura: a lot of people are worried about land grabs and losing -- losing their single family home to high rises with high density affordable housing. a lot of the people are

concerned about that as well, senator. hegseth hearing. we have addressed this on the show. but, the left is apoplectic tonight because i think they know he is going to get confirmed. did he incredibly well, i thought, acquitted himself, you know, brilliantly today. do you think the democrats laid a glove on him. >> no. >> laura: you were there. no? nothing? >> he knocked it out of the park, laura. i was a little bit concerned going in. you know, he hadn't been in a situation like that. he handled it perfectly. they went after him. their mission was to seek and destroy, schumer said we're going to go after every one of these nominees. he was the first. he put them on their back. he absolutely destroyed them. if anybody votes against him on the republican side, we have got a-to-question their intelligence because he will be the perfect person to get our military back. >> laura: senator, just for the record, have you seen anyone show up drunk to vote in the senate like senator markwayne

mullin said today? that kind of raised a lot of eyebrows? remember, back in the 1980s with ted kennedy. he was legendary. anything you want to tell us tonight about any of your colleagues just among us chickens here? >> i don't know any underlying stories and there are probably some out there. now, there is times that we will start and have started voting at 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon and go until the next day at noon, 21 hours straight, and that might make some of us look like we have had a long night at the bar. but, i don't see any of that. i really don't. but i set beside markwayne, you can probably look at my facial expressions when he is doing all of that. that was a fun day to watch the democrats kind of crawl under the table, understanding that they had overstepped their bounds. >> laura: all right, senator, at least we have that settled tonight. senator, thank you. >> thank you. >> laura: all right, is joe biden trying to up end a key part of america's first agenda? on his way staggering out the door? coming up.

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have any would not let u.s. steel be sold to japanese, by the way. i would stop it, if it hasn't been completed by the time i'm president. >> iconic american company for more than a century. and it should remain a totally american company. >> that's going to happen, i promise you. >> well, he promised and many were surprised. it seemed like joe biden agreed with trump on not letting u.s. steel sell to jand company it's called nippon steel. i have e biden blocked the sale citing national security concerns which are obvious. but then, whoever is pulling his string did something very strange. biden delayed enforcement of that order until june because all the lobbyists, which means

there is a chance this deal could still go through. but my next guest believes u.s. steel should and will stay u.s. owned. joining me now is cleveland cliffs ceo. lorenz zoe lobbyists are trying to turn trump in favor of nippon's purchase of u.s. steel. you want to buy u.s. steel u.s. company. what do americans need to understand need to understand about that given the fact that your bid comes in a little lower than apparently nippon would offer here? >> laura, a great pleasure being with you. my offer is the only one that's acceptable for the united states because nippon steel was blocked on national security grounds. nippon steel did not present a

plan that could work and clearly nippon steel would never create a operation in which put workers in america first. we are the only ones that implement the plan of president trump and that is coming. we can't wait another five, six days to have this thing going. >> laura: lourneco your remarks are attention to shift away from the legal monopolistic conspiracies that you are engaged in. all in the faith of declining performance at your company suing you for, i guess, you know the equivalent of tortuous interference of negotiations, a legal and coordinated action. so they are pushing, pushing, pushing on all fronts. they have a lot of journalists, globalists on their side here against a u.s. company buying

u.s. steel. but the attacks are now getting pretty pretty personal. >> when you hit me, you are going to be hit back 10, 20 times more. i can't wait to discuss this in court. put smoke screen on top of something that people don't really understand. japan has been destroying our american steel industry for decades. japan over capacity. japan overproduction in steel is the biggest problem we have ever had in this country. >> laura: how many times, lourneco, i believe this is correct that nippon steel has been sanctioned, what, seven times for illegal dumping? i believe that's correct, they violated antidumping provisions and they have done enormous

amount of damage to the u.s. steel industry. and then they are going to be rewarded with being able to buy. this trump can't, in no way change heir mind on this. this would be a disaster if he did. final word? >> exactly right, laura. 12 times. and the last time was two months ago. they were already bidding for u.s. steel. so, at the same time that they were bidding for u.s. steel, they were dumping steel in our marketplace. and now they are trying to do what's called tariff jumping. tariff jumping is you -- first you make the company that's compete against you weaker. they are doing that right now. just described the situation on prices here in the united states. and then they come and try to buy. so we are going to discuss all that in court. >> laura: yeah this is vulture -- and i don't like the phrase vulture capitalism it's overused this is vulture capitalism on international scale with national security

implications. thank you very much we will be watching this case very carefully. i know president trump will do the right thing here. kamala isn't feeling the maga magic. why is she such a sore loser? next. ♪ complete and utter love. it's the people that lift you up when you're down. people on tiktok do that on a daily basis, and i've never found a community like that, ever.

>> laura: just six more days until our four year biden nightmare comes to an end. sanity will return to washington. the maga inaugural extravaganza is going to include carrie underwood singing the national anthem, the trump garbage truck is going to join the parade and the village people are going to perform ymca. not everyone is excited. enter sore loser kamala harris. she is bucking tradition and not inviting j.d. vance to the v.p.'s residence before he moves in. she also went viral a photo from jimmy carter's funeral. here it is. she is in it along with biden, bush and obama but the guy standing next to obama he is cropped out. that guy was donald trump. it looks like someone still hasn't gotten over november's defeat. joining me now clay travis, founder of outkick. clay, weren't the democrats the ones who said trump couldn't accept the results of the last election but they are supposed to be our moral superiors a

understand. >> oh, totally they are. and let's start with kamala not inviting j.d. vance to the vice president wants residence. he has got three kids is my understanding. he has got a wife who is having to relocate all that whole family. anybody who has ever moved a family, it's the bare minimum to allow them to come in and actually see the place before they arrive. it's the height of petty but, for someone who managed to lose all 50 states in terms of the trajectory of the election, something we haven't seen in decades, and to lose to a republican in the largest fashion since 1988, i hope that kamala harris stays petty and bitter like this and i hope democrats give her another chance because, remember, laura, what they are saying now she only had 100 days. that's about 99 and a half days too many for anybody ever spent any time with kamala harris. maybe they should make her the nominee for 2028. everybody would sign up for that right now. >> laura: we know trump didn't

invite biden to the white house. biden had already been to the white house. he was vice president. it wasn't like he was unfamiliar with the white house. but, clay, there is another sore loser. it seems like, at least. michelle obama, she is also skipping trump's inauguration. "the washington post" says that michelle obama's upcoming absence candid and open disdain of trump. so she attended trump's inauguration in 2017. photographers captured her troubled expression that day as she and barack obama left. clay, she -- almost a billionaire but, man, she is bitter. >> well, and it's not only not attending the inauguration. i was surprised this didn't get more attention. you showed the picture that kamala harris shared. do you know who was noticeably absent and not because they were cropped out, michelle obama. she wasn't willing to leave her hawaiian vacation to pay respects to a democrat president, jimmy carter had who just died and now she is not willing to travel to attend a presidential inauguration.

it seems, as you just laid out, this is a woman who doesn't have the decency to show the barest minimum of respect for democrats or respects. and so, i do kind of get a little bit of a laugh thinking about this because you know who probably agrees with me on this entire take? barack obama. do you know who probably isn't fighting with michelle obama over her decision not to go? barack obama because if there is one thing we have learned even if you are the president of the united states the one thing i will give obama a lot of credit for i loved when he said his daughters had no interest whatsoever in his opinion of what boys they should be taking to the dance. even if you are the president of the united states, you still lose arguments to your kids and to your wife. i actually think humanizes. >> laura: exactly. clay, great to see you. thanks so much. think twice going to war with pete hegseth.

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now the host of fox news saturday night jimmy sounds like chief princess running mouth elizabeth moran didn't do her homework today. >> you've written that after they retired generals should be banned from working in defense industry for ten years. you're quite sure that every general who serves should not go directly into the defense industry for ten years you're not willing to make the same logically. >> i am not a general senator. [laughter] >> at such an easy line tack such an easy set up eric is not really the best she can do? >> listen you can expect her to know his rank if she hasn't no her own dna okay quick there is that concern.

if you can't get your origin story right you're probably going to botch someone else's but i love this so much because for anyone watching at home who missed the hearing the conflict comes down to this kayak pete hegseth once a military that conceived private ryan. the democrats want a military that can transition private ryan. okay? i think we should choose wisely here appear the soldiers want pete hegseth attacked the loonies with the blue hair don't appear that everything you need to know. >> owed the screeching of those women, i'm telling you play that he will get all the information you need from those enemy combatants. speaking of women in combat things got heated between nancy mays and jasmine crockett during a different committee oversight hearing. watch. >> i can see that somebody's campaign coffers really are struggling right now so she gonna keep saying trans-trans-trends so that people will feel threatened and

child listen kayak i think toast. >> do not call me a child i'm no child don't even start. >> i am not a child. if you want to take it outside. >> was chairman of the committee -- [laughter] >> there like it me out of here. >> seriously. every time i watched jasmine crockett speak i feel that she is testifying on a show called stupid people's court. it's so hard to watch and yes she always goes to that other insoles with anybody who dares counter some of her limited thought process but good on nancy mays for stepping up for herself and must we forget she was a lawful house waitress so she is not taking nothing from anybody. like if we really wanted to secure the border you would send people down there to in the morning tack would be fine. >> have you been to a waffle house in the middle of the night after one of your

shows? how many times? >> is this an intervention i told them i'm trying. >> well, jimmy i would go there before my radio show win i was out in california it was 6:00 a.m. until 9:00 a.m. because of the time change. but we would go and we would be sitting at the waffle house at like 4:00 a.m. in l.a. i think it was near wilshire, anyway we would sit there just watching the people come in. you don't need a comedy routine. that blueberry compote on the pancakes is all you need to know. all right jimmy good to see you every will be sure to jake out does check out jimmy's comedy specials on fox nation.com. there also. thank you for watching tonight make sure to follow me on social media. we have more fireworks tomorrow and jesse watters takes it from here. >> jesse: welcome to jesse watters primetime. tonigh