[applause] al gore. [applause] over a lifetime of service, al gore has been an army serviceman , senator, vice president, presidential nominee, and visionary climate statesmen. in a historic act of selflessness and love for country he accepted the outcome a -- of a disputed election for the sake of unity and democracy. through his nobel peace prize winning leadership he inspires millions to confront the existential threat of climate change. he is a model of american resilience. he proves that what matters most is the courage to take on a cause bigger than ourselves. [applause] clarence b jones. [applause] the philadelphia son of domestic workers and a former foster child he became the wordsmiths for a movement. he was an army soldier on the front lines in the battlefield. and a civil rights law you're on the front lines of the courtroom. wise and unflinching, clarence jones' lyrical prose and prophetic life shows us the enduring power of the idea of america. an advisor and speechwriter to dr. martin luth

so when al gore kind of popularized alarmism, that was really just an activist thing. but then he made it a pipe thing. he made it a something he talked about in the campaign trail, and he realized that he could win some votes of young people who felt like they needed something to vote for. then the social with the issue became a lot more polarizing. and now when people think of environmentalism, they think of trees and oceans and farmland and all the things that people about they think about al gore, they think about bernie sanders, they think about and let's think it for for today, when say, yeah, al gore, bernie sanders, aoc, we've got the the green new deal right. and you talk you talk little bit about about that in your book. why do you that that that won't work. what is it about the green new deal that you think is not going to be the solution that that people think it is. well, i think the green new deal epitomizes, everything that's wrong with environment and today and the climate movement and what we're trying to change it because to me it shows that it's not

geoff: al gore tried to do it back in the 1990's.: al gore was going to -- barack obama, everyone was going to do it. at the end of the day, they are serving the american people. can it be more efficient? there is no question. i wouldn't worry about the economic impact as much as making sure the core services are operating. the irs runs properly, the fcc runs properly. on the other hand, i guarantee you, with any company or enterprise, there is always efficiency to be gained if you go at it the right way. geoff: brian moynihan, ceo of bank of america, a pleasure to speak with you. let's take a closer look at the disconnect between solid economic numbers in the way many people say that feel about this economy. voters said they were upset about the cost of living and then helped elect donald trump to a second term. our economics correspondent reports from ohio on how many americans see this in the wake of the election. >> outside a kroger in dolehide township, ohio. how is the economy for you? >> it's horrible. >> i think everyone coul

al gore said as she passed away, as we were making this film, it is not an exaggeration to say that dianethis film, the jonathan weitz and jaelyn sue logs, and heroes inside the government and people on the outside who stood up because it was a morally reprehensible and stop the policy from happening. i want to use this opportunity, i know there are a lot of people who know diane and note the importance of her to this film and she is an inspiration, just like the people you will meet in the movie tonight. >> the other aspect of the movie , the film is also looking forward. you have got a new trump administration coming in. you already have stephen miller and company planning to reengage in this space through mass deportations. you have nbc's reporting on the trump deportation plan, incoming deportation plan to deport migrant to countries other than their own. it is not clear if the migrants will be allowed to live and work in the countries to which they will remain deported, also not known which kind of economic pressure, diplomatic or otherwise, or things that might apply once resident e

i'm having trouble hearing you. >> john: all right, there was a moment from back in the 1990s were al gore government-purchased ashtray cost 50 times more than if you bought it and your local store. congressman, thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. >> appreciate it. >> john: watch to see what d.o.g.e. comes up with peered. >> sandra: john, we are awaiting that extradition hearing for the suspected killer of unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson. we are watching for any developments, and we will bring you those as soon as we get them. that is a live shot where we could be seeing him shortly. former assistant u.s. attorney andy mccarthy is on deck. he will join us next. (vo) these days, $20 won't get you far. but at red lobster, you're big shrimpin' baby! it's shrimp your way. choose 3 flavors for $20*, like crispy dragon shrimp. get to big shrimpin' today, only at red lobster. ♪ ♪ >> sandra: all right, we are watching live there in hollidaysburg p.a. that is the blair county courthouse where we do expect that an extradition hearing will be happening soon for luigi mangione, the

i'm now old enough to remember when al gore, when he had his -- empowered by president clinton, to lookment efficiency. but that was something where he looked through, worked with congress. they came up with plans and ideas. we got some things through. the problem with margorie taylor greene talking about naughty and nice lists, it's cute for the christmas season. but you're talking about real money and real people's lives. and good luck with congress getting through some of these line by line things that they're talking about, especially a congress that speaker johnson's incoming majority that is going to be a zero seat majority, meaning he can't lose anyone. you tell me that stlsh there arg to be republican members of congress who suddenly get concerned about what they're hearing coming out of washington, about a favorite program or favorite entitlement that could be on the chopping block? i don't see how this is going to lead to anything that president-elect trump says it's going to lead to. i feel like this is a blue ribbon commission that will produce some sort of report, and it wi

. >> the next treur secretary provided the raise money f democratic presidential candidate, al gore,lary clinton and barack obama serve as iesent officer for the fund management and recently raise $ million for donald trump's campaign. rertn national convention and talk about potential econom priorities for second trump administration. >> only start with you and made a lot of strong support on donald trump foxbusiness news. in addition? what does he need to do to get this going? >> i think is a lot of what you said. i suggested prime minister of japan arrows. left, from behind my desk because i do divided last chance out of this massive debt by chair, her idea to get rid of the inflation turning head of the economic council and the tax showed. and that respirator. and 50% of the time you don't come out. the what i do i think, not cut spending in the defenses vestment from 4% of two and a half blowout of the deficit and the soviet union. the defense and deregulate growth in the commitment during the budget deficit down by 2028 is a financial markets person. and you don't have to give

now the big drug companies had all supported him against al gore. they didn't like gore or me because we were trying to use the generic drugs. but i told them, i said, i know they say that. and i said, of all their mouth off. he said what do you mean? i said, well if you ask he said well how, how effective are these generic drugs. they say they're only 60% as effective as our drugs. and remember the first time one of those guys made this argument to me, i said, i don't believe i'd say that if i were you. and he said, why, i because your drugs are still ten or 15 times more expensive. so if trying to save more lives, you will still buy the generics. and that really him mad. i didn't mean to make him make, but i didn't think talking about math make anybody mad. but anyway. so i as george. but keep in mind you know you do that to raise money for a campaign and you don't like to use those big donors you don't like to make powerful interest groups mad. and i said to bush i said, look, i know you got to respect these people. so what about this what if i ta

she's going to do it with the grace, as al gore did. al gore went out in zero two to think about running. he was exploring. running. he decided not to. so we will see which path she decides to go, but she will have a very crowded fight for the nomination. no doubt about it, this is not going to be given to her. >> all right. still ahead here on cnn this morning, trying to find out why investigators in wisconsin are looking into how a 15 year old girl got the gun used in a deadly school shooting. plus, courting trump, amazon's jeff bezos, the latest ceo heading to mar-a-lago to meet with the president elect new year's eve live with anderson and andy. >> live coverage starts at eight on cnn. >> copd is an ugly reality. i watch as his world just keeps getting smaller. but then trelegy helped us see things a little differently. with three medicines and one inhaler, trilogy keeps airways open for a full 24 hours and prevents future flare ups one staley trilogy also improves lung function so he can breathe more freely all day and night. >> tr

and i mean, you know, al gore made a nice movie. so what i mean, i think what what, what, what musk done with electric cars is i could talk more about that. i mean, it's not just making electric cars kind of it's you had to just completely reinvent car manufacturing model which is which is just really cool what he's done with space x is very cool, but he's completely unregulated. i'm not a i don't subscribe to his vision of kind of this terminator and we've got to colonize mars. i mean, i just think that's baloney. i think the my issue with which i do talk a little bit, but in the book is i do have a somewhat benign view of the i, i think more than anything else it's a productivity. do i do think one of the things that i think is is borderline sinister about ai is the way it starts to manipulate choices in terms of what you what you read, what what what books you read, what movies you watch. and i give the example in my book of of graceland, paul simon's graceland masterpiece, recognized as a masterpiece. and it's fantastic musician

philanthropist bill and melinda gates divorced, and even political leaders like former vice president al goreese celebrity gray divorces are really emblematic of what's happening more broadly in our population. >> they also serve to normalize gray divorce in the second half of life. >> susan brown is a professor of sociology at bowling green state university who helped coin the term gray divorce, many of them are deciding to call it quits because it seems that after having been busy with their careers and raising their children, that once they are confronted with an empty nest and retirement and they've got a lot of time on their hands to spend with each other, they may find that they just don't have that much in common, brown says. baby boomers who came of age during the first divorce revolution in the 70s and 80s, have a unique perspective on marriage. >> older adults are actually pretty supportive of divorce, and increasingly, adults see alternatives to marriage, whether that be cohabitation or remaining single. that there's no longer the pressure there once was to remain in what we would

allowed al gore to separate from clinton. she could have found a vp pick set may be tried that more. i do not know who exactly that could have been. >> you know who it is. the governor of pennsylvania. >> i do not know if he was an anti-biden pick. >> i don't mean separation from biden, but a tactical pic. that's the monday morning quarterbacking. >> and even that, i think at the end of the day it would leave about 10,000 votes. >> picking josh shapiro, i wrote a whole story about that. what if you picked josh shapiro? there was an idea that might have helped by a point or a point in a half and pennsylvania -- a point at a house in pennsylvania and she would have won pennsylvania. but if you won pennsylvania she would still have lost the election. would it have really mattered in the end? the reason she went with tim walz according to my sources was that you just had better chemistry with him and it was not the question at the time, do i think that tim walz will necessarily win the election. it was, if i win the election, who

at the key square group investment firm previously raised money for democratic presidential cdites al gore, hilary clinton, and barack obama served a a chief investment officer for soros fund managentut more recently he raised for the $57 million for donald trump's 2024 campaign. if confirmed he would become the second gay person to serve in the presidential cabinet after pete buttigieg. next, scott bessent at his own words we start with his remarks at a conservative economic policy summit held on the sidelines of the 2024 republican national convention. heal about potential economic priorities for a second trump administration. >> let me start with you, scott bessent. you are one of the leading financial minds in america. you've made a lot of money in the financial markets pretty been a strong support of donald trump or you talk to him all the time. you see scott on foxnews all the time, foxbusiness news as well as adjacent and charlie of course. you are talking to trump. what do you think he needs to be doing in addition to the things we have been talking about. what is heat need to be d

al gore tried to make it on the environment that was filming the whole thing from airports and john kerry of state, how effective was he? hillary limped off into the sunset. i don't think she that anything is a track bill clinton's whereabouts so forget it. your day in the so i sent is over. >> you hear people scream like this? when you inject them for something, they are injected with insanity because apparently it's all the rage with the landslide victory. [screaming] but now some are concerned it's a symptom of a deeper problem. [screaming] ♪ [screaming] >> flashback to 2016 when it began if you need reminded. >> trump is now president of the united states. [screaming] >> i'm no doctor but i would recommend prozac for all of th them. they sound like howling wolves and he. what would you prescribe them? euthanasia? >> that might help. a more temporary solution. xanax, a more temporary solution. this is not trump derangement syndrome. i interviewed kevin smith head of political science university of nebraska who studied this. election anxiety. he found out its way worse for democrats tha

i'm old enough to remember al gore was the grandfather. he's the o.g.first guy to publicly say it to be possible to completely eliminate his words the gas-powered combustion engine. we learned if we did that, we'll pay ten times what we're paying for everything. when trump was on the campaign trail, he would talk about saying, you know, it's not just inflation. the price of oil affects the groceries, the bacon, the gas and also the things that got shipped, the shoes you're wearing. everything is tied to it. americans started to wake up to that. it's interested to see what steps he takes and if we actually see across the board goods and services and of course food and gas begin to come down and finally americans feel a drop in inflation despite the stats of the previous administration or biden administration giving us the past four years. >> oil is an input in to many, many products. it would reduce costs overall the more we produce oil. wealthy parents making nearly $1 million a year would get financial aid to cover private school tuition. you heard me

latest it's ever been back in 2000 it was friday the 13th, same day as we guess last friday was that al goreconceded after the supreme court ruled on the florida recount and stopped it. today was the first day in 2000 that transition teams started showing up at agencies. if not the latest but pretty late in the process. that doesn't mean they are behind. it's pretty rare we have a president elected served four years and then get defeated for reelection, sit down for four years and then wins the next election and comes back. in fact, it's only happened once before in history and that was in the 18th century and even though i have story like me likes to draw lessons from that come robert, i can find almost no lessons of 1892 that are relevant to today. >> there was in a joke in there, dave. i will not take advantage of you. >> i wasn't alive inside wasn't paying the close of attention to it. but the reality is that when you're out and come back you have a different game plan because what we've seen is many people involved in this transition has spent much of the last four years getting ready f

she should take a page from al gore, maybe produce a docum documentary. >> charlie: grow a beard.oss the country. >> tom: if she had something. act like the obamas. she was in the white house. acted like you're the former vice president. you can go around the world, produce films, get a netflix deal. people will love her. don't run for office again. >> katie: her whole career is failing. maybe she should do that. >> kennedy: i think californians have been so abused? i don't know that they would do that. >> katie: we'll see. >> tom: maybe. >> charlie: okay. ahead, professional trump haters like don lemon are ending the year on a sour note. ♪ maya knows how quality care can bring out a smile. but it's been a few dog years since she was able to enjoy a smile of her own. good thing aspen dental offers affordable, complete care all in one place. and new patients without insurance get 29 dollar exams and xrays. plus 20% off treatment plans for everyone. loving our patients unconditionally. it's one more way aspen dental is in your corner. speaker: who's coming in the driveway? speaker:

if al gore can accept 5-4 he is not president, i can accept wisconsin 4-3. fraud.ieve that? i ask, give me ten. they said 8,000 felons in prison in arizona voted. give me ten. hadn't got one. does that say there's problems in every election? i don't buy thchlt enough is enough. we gotta end it. vice president pence, what they are asking you to do, you won't do because you can't. fur a conservative, this is the most offensive concept in the world that a single person could disenfranchise 155 million people. >> enough is enough. quote unquote. until it wasn't. then there's mitch mcconnell. i want to be clear and precise. he has previously said, pardoning the attackers was a bad idea in the past. now that trump is president-elect we have not heard him raise his voice. he does have power to say that now that trump is on the vernl vernl of doing it. that same night, sheer mitch mcconnell sglt united states senate will not be intimidated. we will not be kept out of this chamber by thugs, mobs or threats. we will not bow to lawlessness or intimidation. we are back at our

and i have to tell you, we are probably running short on time. 24 years ago tonight, al gore concededge w. bush in that recount. i worked on that campaign and it was tough for thousands of his supporters and staff members. but that's what happens when courts rule. you accept the outcome and you move on with your lives no matter howdies appointed you are. pam bondi has not moved on. she has a stance beyond what the attorney general embraced in terms of the election denialism so i'm concerned about the people that donald trump is placing around him. they have loyalty to him and they are putting that above the constitution. >> you have taken us to church, to history class and the dog all in one segment. thank you for your time. still ahead, on monday, daniel penny was acquitted for choking jordan neally to death in a subway and he will be in a suite watching the army navy football game with donald trump and jd vance. i will discuss how that happened and what it says about the country we are living in. stay tuned for more coming up. . when i was diagnosed with h-i-v, i didn't know who i w

that's why al gore turned himself into a whale. >>> tesla owners are buying anti-eli a musk stickersle virtue weight until they find out about forward. >>> a man in massachusetts that stuck in a chimney it wouldn't be news if he celebrated kwanzaa. >>> sanders says it's likely his last term. cnn lost in the ratings to hdtv data rather watch grass grow than anderson cooper. the big news as of this time not for greg or gus and this happened to "time" magazine as they announced their person of the year to the surprise of nobody. [ cheers and applause ] it was none other than donald trump as you heard from the applause. second time he had the honor the first coming after his win in 2016 which was also the same week hillary clinton canceled her subscription and smashed her server with a hammer. the editorial board mentioned trumps come back and impact on global politics and how we increase devotes from blacks, latinos and people named biden. the cover called him president of the divided states in 2016 this year it's simply his name even though there was room for cry harder losers. when de

ronald reagan tried it and al gore. governments for the 21st century. they struggled with the federal government is full of wires and tape and a lot of things. when you cut one wire you hurt some people in nebraska and cut another wire and hurt sheep farmers in kansas. this is the struggle they'll have to deal with. understanding that a majority of the federal budget goes to medicare, social security and the military. the rest of the budget goes to paying our debt to folks treasury bills that we put in the marketplace. now how do you cut $2 trillion knowing all these things to be true? this is not going to be easy as elon musk's mom said last week talking to varney. >> mike: sanders will want to go after the pentagon. >> certainly reallocating and moving thing around is what we've seen the pete hegseth and a vision for how to reform and bring efficiency to the pentagon. as someone that started their career in the tea party movement 13 some odd years ago. we learned if you are going to take a blow torch as the speaker says to spending and provide governm

i know we are probably running short on time, but al gore conceded to george w. was tough for his supporters and staff members, but that's what happens when courts rule. you accept the outcome and move on with your lives. however disappointed you are. pam bondi, the attorney general nominee has not moved on tucci has-- attorney general bill barr embraced in terms of election denialism. so i am concerned about the people trump is putting around him, they have loyalty to him and are putting that above their loyalty to the constitution. >> anthony coley, you have taken us to church, history, and the doj segment. thank you for your time. >>> daniel penny was acquitted for choking jordan neely to death on a new york city subway to tomorrow he will be watching the army-navy game alongside donald trump and jd vance. i will discuss how that happened and what it says about the country we are living in. stay tuned for more coming up. . ♪♪ vicks vapostick provides soothing non-medicated vicks vapors. easy to apply for the whole family. vicks vapostick. and try new vaposhowe

we have had the cost-cutting thing going back to al gore. people get selfish.ng is in your city, in your state and they go yeah, listen, that contract is a little fat and slow look to fan it out. excuse me, you are not going to do that boeing is here and american airlines is there. subsidy is here. people get selfish. you need someone to make the hard decision. which is the whole reason for the having the veto with the president. i'm going to veto this in order to get this done. you need someone like elon musk to come in and say sorry. these big contracts aren't going to go here because i know for a fact you could do it cheaper to. lawrence. >> steve: here's the thing, brian. when it comes to and this was part of the story as well. heads of federal agencies can make some changes but eliminating an agency or making big budget cuts requires congress. so, everything they are going to do. everybody at doge, they are simply going to make a suggestion how could we accomplish this. maybe stuff they could do with executive order. >> ainsley: we will be talking about it

>> dana: it's the al gore model. >> harold: i'm not as passionate about it -- well, i am about some thingske this determination. she seeks to run for office in california, i think kat is right. she's trying to figure out, i ran for a couple of months. if i were her, i would step back for little while and try to figure out what i did right and what i did wrong and more fundamentally, why am in the business of politics. if you are in the business of politics to give speeches like that to say we are fighting, when you fight in politics, you fight for a purpose. you've got a step back sometimes and have a little introspection about, what did i do write? why do i want to do this? not just her, but anytime you lose in a race like this. the voters will help her sort it out. they either will or they will not want her. president trump, again, did something that a republican has not done in a very, very long time. he got working-class americans to believe that he was best fit and had the best ideas and best vision to take the country forward. you have to accept that when you run a political contest,

. >> well, come on, come on, al gore! can i just say one thing, michael. this is me with my offer in play for the sermon that elie just placed. i think this point he's making is really important. democrats did sent a lot of letters, they put out a lot of tweets and made a lot of floor speeches, but they asked that john roberts come to congress. he said, i'm not coming. and they were like, okay. and i think that, you know, there was some -- they could have upped the ante a little bit, ratcheted up the pressure. i didn't see any democrats making their way over into the supreme court justice chambers. and while that seems kind of like, aha to do, i think given the stakes here, what has been happening with the court, it was necessary. >> symone, the thing is, just to hop in -- the thing to do would be to cut their budget, right? the constitution says very little about the supreme court, but one of the things that's pretty clear is that congress, not the court, controls the court's budget. if you want these men to pay attention, especially with all the reportin

latest it's ever been back in 2000 it was friday the 13th, same day as we guess last friday was that al goreconceded after the supreme court ruled on the florida recount and stopped it. today was the first day in 2000 that transition teams started showing up at agencies. if not the latest but pretty late in the process. that doesn't mean they are behind. it's pretty rare we have a president elected served four years and then get defeated for reelection, sit down for four years and then wins the next election and comes back. in fact, it's only happened once before in history and that was in the 18th century and even though i have story like me likes to draw lessons from that come robert, i can find almost no lessons of 1892 that are relevant to today. >> there was in a joke in there, dave. i will not take advantage of you. >> i wasn't alive inside wasn't paying the close of attention to it. but the reality is that when you're out and come back you have a different game plan because what we've seen is many people involved in this transition has spent much of the last four years getting ready f

bush and al gore ran a race that reflected a bitterly polarized electorate the year before. americans talk gloomily about the end of the world, though at the time the imagined threat was not war or politics, but technology remember y2k and that same year, in 1999, the manhattan real estate tycoon donald trump announced his plan to run for president seeking the nomination of the reform party ticket, though he later dropped out of contention over these past 25 years, peggy noonan has been penning her column in the wall street journal. a former ronald reagan speechwriter noonan has just published a collection of those columns in a new book a certain idea of america. peggy, what a pleasure to have you. and what a great book. >> thank you. oh thank you so much, fareed. >> i first came to know of you watching reagan deliver your speeches, but you then wrote this fantastic memoir of the reagan years in washington. really? that it brought to life what politics was like in the 1980s for a young person so vividly. and you captured the sort of atmosphere and spirit and so i was wonderi

that was the year george w bush narrowly beat al gore. nationwide, all 435 races for the u.s.ouse have now been projected. the final abc news estimate is 220 republicans, 215 democrats. the republicans have the majority. president elect donald trump's nominee for defense secretary. meantime, pete hegseth says he will not back down. he faces accusations of misconduct that are really challenging his chances of winning confirmation in the senate. sources tell abc news trump has spoken to someone else about possibly stepping in to take over as the nominee. abc news reporter perry russom is at the capitol today. >> president elect trump's pick for defense secretary. pete hegseth on capitol hill, once again meeting with republican senators as he fights to win over their approval. >> here's what they want to do to make sure that department is properly oriented for the threats of the world and make sure that we're putting the warfighters first. that's what donald trump asked me to do. >> the likelihood of his confirmation appears to be dwindling, as sources tell abc news, at least six

vice president al gore led that effort in the 1990s and had real success with it.sted in doing. the reason i started laughing about the doge, there is no department of government efficiency. it's not a real thing. i would love to work with republicans in good faith to actually identify real areas where we can make government more efficient, but i'm not going to go along with some completely bogus fake department that doesn't exist -- >> do you think we have too many environmental regulations? >> in the abstract, most people would say yes, we have too much regulation, period. but then when you get into specifics, that's where the devil is really in the details. you would have to look one by one. >> why does it cost a million dollars to put a toilet into a san francisco city? >> obviously, that shouldn't take place. or why in some of these things in the defense department, do we see outlandish costs for very simple tools? so i think those things are real to look at. we know in the past like the clinton/gore led commission, there were real successes. i think that sort

geoff: al gore tried to do it in the 90's. brian: ronald reagan was going to do it. george w.going to do it, barack obama. everyone was going to make government more efficient. it's hard because there's complexities to it. at the end of the day, they are serving the american people. it could be more efficient. no question. you have to do it carefully so you don't disrupt service. i wouldn't worry about the economic impact as much as we have to make sure the core services operate. the irs runs properly, the regulatory authorities, the sec could because capital formation. on the other hand, i guarantee with any company, enterprise, there's always a fishy situation. if you eliminate the work, you can get efficiencies to stick. geoff: brian monahan, thank you for being here. brian: thank you. geoff: let's take a closer look of this disconnect between solid economic numbers and the way many people feel about the economy. voters said they were upset about the cost of living and that helped elect donald trump to a second term. our economics correspondent reports now from ohio on how

we, of course, remember that from al gore doing this back when he lost to george w bush.ut there have been some law changes. so even if she wanted to, she could not overturn the outcome there. that change from four years ago. but look, she will be sitting in the chair as president of the senate in the waning days of her time in office, presiding over her defeat. that's what a peaceful transition of power is intended to look like. >> that's what it looks like. jeff zeleny, thank you so much for your reporting. over to you, kate. >> thank you. sarah. president elect donald trump is working right now to tamp down some of the controversy surrounding his pick to be health secretary. robert f kennedy jr. has a long history of pushing debunked conspiracy theories, especially surrounding vaccines, including the false claim that vaccines are linked to childhood autism. and that is something that kennedy did not want to talk about as he made the rounds on capitol hill yesterday to try and secure support for his nomination you can't believe in the polio vaccine. >> should the polio

and she will do as al gore did in 2000, accept her own defeat. that is how it should work in the united states of america. >> that's the process of democracy and a democratic handover of power. jeff zeleny, thank you so much. you bet. let's discuss this and more with democratic new jersey congressman josh gottheimer. he's a member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, thank you so much for being with us. i do want i do want to talk to you about drones and the drones that have been hovering over new jersey and parts of the northeast. but first, i did want to ask you something about the electoral process, because yesterday, some of your democratic colleagues on the senate side unveiled an amendment to abolish the electoral college. i wonder if you would support it. >> i haven't seen that. but what i do support, as you were just talking about, is, of course, a peaceful transfer of power. we have a lot of work to do this coming congress. >> and as you know, it's going to be a very narrow majority in the house, and it's going to take many

you saw al gore's picture there because he was in charge of it. that was an inside effort. they got recommendations from across inside the government. it was a little more successful. they trimmed something like 350,000 jobs, although they probably shouldn't get credit for all of those because the pentagon was already getting smaller. but the point is, there have been multiple efforts like this just in recent memory people or presidents trying to trim the size of government and even the ones that were sort of successful haven't worked because government spending we know has skyrocketed. look at the math. each year, the government spends about $6.8 trillion start the most importantly spends $3.8 trillion just on mandatory things. things congress doesn't even control. we're talking medicare. we're talking social security after that, there's $0.7 trillion that goes to interest on the national debt. they can't not pay that, or the government would essentially lose its credit rating. so and that number is getting bigger every single year with interest rates. that only leaves abo

thank you very much with us now, kristie setzer, a democratic strategist and former spokesperson for al gore'smpaign, and matt gorman republican strategist, former senior adviser for tim scott's presidential campaign. on the last episode of cnn news central. i asked our guests, this was yesterday if it was going to be the last day of the pete hegseth nomination, and yesterday they thought yes, well, obviously that was wrong. he has survived a full 24 hours longer. so is he on the path now to confirmation, kristie no he's not. >> even if this takes until friday or saturday or early next week, that does not mean that he is any closer. look it's not just the drinking issue though. that has been the focus of a lot of our conversation. it's also the fact that he has rank inexperience. it is the fact that even his own mother said he's kind of a bad guy to women. and that's before you even get to the policy concerns, which are the fact that the statements that he's made about not wanting to see women in frontline combat positions, which one would imagine is probably pretty irksome to someone like jon

this must be why al gore turned himself into a whale. tesla owners are now buying anti elon musk bumper stickers to signal their virtue. well, just wait until they find out about henry ford, a man in massachusetts became stuck in a chimney while trying to evade cops that were conducting a drug raid. experts say they wouldn't even be news if everyone celebrated kwanzaa. 83 year old bernie sanders assumes this will be his last term. he doesn't want to die in office like his idol, joseph stalin. >> haha. >> cnn has lost in the ratings to hgtv, proving people would rather watch grass grow than anderson cooper. happy. there we go. all right, so the big news this week, there's the pitter patter of little feet around the gutfeld home, and this time not from greg or gus. and this happened to time magazine announced its person of the year. and to the surprise of no one, there we go. >> all right. >> and they were not employed by cnn. it was none other than president elect donald j. trump, as you hear from the applause. so it's the second time he'

you know, al gore's internet. and i see all kinds of smears against democrats being perpetrated by the new media in conservative circles. are those folks ready to be sued? >> no, that's not what's happening here. as scott said, it's about holding major media outlets accountable in a game that they're they're one sided on. and that's the way it's not about the money for trump. it's not about he's not doing that. you know what he probably really wanted to get to and what abc didn't want him to see and what he didn't want the public to see. that was the discovery side of it, where maybe there were emails internally talking about this and saying, well, we're going to say this, or we're going to say that that's probably the same thing with the des moines register. what kind of communication was going on before that poll was released? >> what about the des moines register? i mean, do you really think he's going to sue over a bad poll? >> i mean, there's it's not the poll. it's the idea that it was done. and there are pe

al gore tried reinventing government. you often need people from outside congress to come and shake it up and let's face it, the appropriations process in congress could not be any worse musk will not mess this up. i mean like, it's it's currently already messed up. it's already messed up. >> why don't you explain that and quickly? because i know people really understand how the appropriations process works and why it's so it doesn't. >> it doesn't. you're supposed to have both houses pass spending bills come and debate each one of them line by line instead. we don't do that. we have four leaders. >> instead, i'm constantly reading things that say we're days from a government shutdown. again, you remember this again, right? >> and then four people get in a room and like, hammer out something that was handed to them as just an algorithm, you know? i mean, it's just it's a mess we're currently not debating spending in washington. harry reid broke that process. i would argue republicans have failed to fix it since then. so i

you know, al gore's internet.nd i see all kinds of smears against democrats being perpetrated by the new media in conservative circles. are those folks ready to be sued? >> no, that's not what's happening here. as scott said, it's about holding major media outlets accountable in a game that they're they're one sided on. and that's the way it's not about the money for trump. it's not about he's not doing that. you know what he probably really wanted to get to and what abc didn't want him to see and what he didn't want the public to see. that was the discovery side of it, where maybe there were emails internally talking about this and saying, well, we're going to say this, or we're going to say that that's probably the same thing with the des moines register. what kind of communication was going on before that poll was released? >> what about the des moines register? i mean, do you really think he's going to sue over a bad poll? >> i mean, there's it's not the poll. it's the idea that it was done. and there are peop