marco rubio confirmed he is the next secretary of state and a unanimous vote as vivek ramaswamy steps away from the doge agency. one more for the road joe biden given the whole biden family preemptive pardons minutes before leaving office were following all of this today, futures let's take a look on your screen all of them across the board are higher in markets closed yesterday, got 152 in markets are open after the martin luther king jr. holiday. watching how investors are ready for the new president at the home is vowing to reduce american cost-of-living across-the-board oil prices as you can see pulling back brought in crude arch would have% for both trump planning to refill the spr while possibly holding off on the terrorist that can affect supply and demand, we've got it. european markets as you can see on your screen a mixed bag, the petit is down. ♪ ♪ ♪. cheryl: time for the hot topic of the hour president trump sending dozens of executive orders on his first day playing the economic groundwork for what he calls the golden age of america. fox business edward lawrence live from

and so he he would get vivek to get rid of vivek, put him in the senate. well, he'll be a reliable vote, but then what does that leave? >> elon? just running doge by himself? >> no, he's got he's got he's got he's got the little baby away. >> abby, how long have you been covering washington? and watching and watching businessmen come in and being like, i'm going to fix it. and then they get in and it's like, oh, it's difficult. forget about it. >> it's a lot harder than you think. >> you did not answer the question. is it worth scrutinizing government spending from an outside set of eyes, yes or no? >> you know, kevin, not those two. >> no no no. >> hold on. what about one of them? >> hold on. kevin? yes. the answer to your question is absolutely. but you got you cannot skirt around the mandatory spending in the budget. if you're going to do it, you have to address the fact that there is mandatory spending and it needs to be reformed and that congress and the politicians have to have the guts to do it. >> and they are not. tell me that there isn't fat in g

and did vivek try to replicate steve erckal along the way? nah.y aspect of american culture he finds so mediocre on the campaign trail. ♪ better go capture this moment ♪ ♪ you better lose yourself ♪ >> yeah, lose yourself, indeed. he also did that act as a college student at harvard long before running to be president of this supposedly mediocre nation. and there's vivek's partner in the pretend agency to cut government spending, elon musk, who controls the app formerly known as twitter, and used it along with $200 million to put trump back in office. he's now gotten trump to come out for visas for lower paid workers to replace americans in silicon valley, jobs because he's the richest man in the world and trump needs the money. and what value has elon created? he was born rich in south africa, came to america after apartheid fell, and he and his brother got $3 million to invest in their tech company called zip two. ever heard of it? me neither. -- working illegally in the u.s. at the time, which musk disputes. >> when they did fund us, they reali

vivek ramaswamy. obviously i am not a donald trump fan. if we remember four years ago what happened, january 6 some of the insurrection. that was real. for anyone to not say that, that does not sit well with me. i have no problem with unity. but, it's not helpful to the united states when you have a cultlike mentality. i think there should be bipartisanship. host: the house is gaveling in to close out the 118th congress. live coverage on c-span and c-span two. host: pursuant to the 20th amendment . host: there was the speaker gaveling down the 118th. we expect the house will come back in just a minute or two to gavel in the 119th congress. micah shoulder is reporting speaker mike johnson says we think we are there, feeling confident he will have the votes to be speaker on the first ballot. he adds, it says nothing if he loses the first round. if he loses the first round, we have learned from emily brooks they expected to go right away to the second round. if he loses that round, we will see what happens. stay on c-span. our cameras will be

[applause] vivek, you are an inspiration. i'm just going to close us, if you don't mind, with something from scripture. proverbs xi -- 1 17b 14. people lose their way without wise leadership, but a nation succeeds and stands in victory when it has many good counselors to guide it. god bless you for being one of those counselors, and god bless you for being in the wean that. thank you all -- arena. thank you all for joining us today. thank you.

the fact vivek is talking about running for governor.awsuit, you guys are not even following the news. more of a pr stunt. >> brian: with raids likely to happen in chicago and new york. president, a pre-pardon president biden set up for his family and those on the january 6 committee, what has that done to the legal community? >> given political license to donald trump and every president to do the same. presumptive pardons have never been tested inure ko. courts would probably defer to the president's pardon power. however, i wonder if court was to get involved if they would create a limiting principle, you can't say for anything you have ever done or done before. >> brian: knock off liquor stare, sorry got a pardon. did not help the party on the way out. president trump said the january 6 ers would get pardons and commutations. your thoughts? >> i've been tracking those cases and doj under president biden again and again ask for incredibly harsh sentences and penalties for most of them relatively minor offenses for tre trespassing and

vivek ramaswamy and others, getting their seats.evin hassett on the right of your screen, serving matters of economics for the president, intel's e-gov are, hoping to become the next rector of national intelligence. graham in new jersey, democrats line. caller: hi, i want to wish everyone mlk day. -- a happy mlk day. i am disappointed the american people desire another four years of trump. i am also disappointed in people not choosing alabama for the college football finals. host: ok. graham there. we have pictures of more of the president's hopeful cabinet. you heard john mcardle say marco rubio expected to vote on his becoming secretary of state expected today. others to follow as well, when the president hopefully will get members of his cabinet appointed by the -- confirmed by the senate. sanya in california, independent line. caller: hi, good morning. i just wanted to remind everyone how we spend our time, what we are watching on the television or what we are spending our money on is just as much of a message sender as any scre

when ve vikram vivek ram wham swami came out, he was targeted. the way they described it administered, was unpopular. bannon is on the side of the base. and he believes that donald trump is going to come his way and not elon musk's way. >> i want to talk to the rhythm or whatever the people are going to dance to. that's snappy. martin, tip, thank you so much. >>> next, more live cnn coverage of the second trump inauguration. and the second ball he's been to today. stick with us. ♪ ♪ >>> we are keeping our eye on the inaugural balls all over washington. the president and first family at their second ball of the night, the liberty ball. one of president trump's executive orders begins this fight over his attempt to scratch out a piece of the constitution, that outlines birthright citizenship. here with us in the studio, is cnn legal analyst elliot williams. elliot, this will not come as a surprise to you, if you have been listening to con ing ing ing ing to conservatives for some time now. one particular conservative would not be cover under citize

vivek going to run for governor, before that it was senator. elon booted him out. i don't flow if this is the too could be more kavannojing and seems to be in the =ture now. >> we're hear ago lot of different stories that vivek was involved till the last moment and imagining executive orders for doge. but i think he did ruffle feathers over the holiday with comments about the american work ethic during the whole h1b visa debate. he's a compelling candidate for the governor's mansion. it's not a clear cut race by any means. he's going up in a competitive primary. the ag there, agiest is well liked, salt of the earth ohio kind of guy. i think this will be a really fascinating race to watch play out and vivek has been in a national sort of anti-woke mode. his messages has been a national one. now he's got to come home to ohio and running against people that have been working exclusively on ohio and make his case to those people. larry: i noticed elon musk also took public wraps at the star gate billionaires saying they don't have enough money. at

. >> it was supposed to be a co-leadership with vivek ramaswamy, seems like he's out, does that meanhat doge will be fully in the hands of elon musk? >> basically, yeah, it was all along and elon musk idea and vivek ramaswamy needed a job and things didn't work out so he's no longer with doge. >> there's this discussion of course biden in his final oval office address, talked about the threat of oligarchs, in the context of a democracy that he was concerned about. i showed you all that picture of all of these people, in silicon valley, their huge multimillionaires, does that really fuel even further that threat for the oligarchs? >> it doesn't just fill it, it establishes it. i've been thinking about a similar tableau, if we wanted to have something like this, i was thinking what would you need to have, in the 1950s, it would be all of the ceos of the steel companies because in that era, u.s. steel was king and there was a concern about collusion and in fact, there was, you would never have them turn up at a presidential inauguration and you wouldn't have them intermixed with members

vivek is going to run for governor. before that it was senator.dden people are saying elon booted him out. i don't know if that's true. it could be more kavinoyying. seems to be the culture. what do you know? >> we're hear aing a lot of different stories on vivek's account and involved to the last moment and drafting executive orders of dog e. i think he ruffled feathers during the holidays with the h1b debate and he's compelling for the candidate and he's going up in a competitive primary and salt of the earth ohio kind of guy. this will be a really fascinating race to watch play out and vivek has been in a national sort of anti-woke mode and his messages has been a nassau countial one. now coming home to ohio and running against people that have been working exclusively on ohio and make his case to those people. larra rhode islander i notice elon musk also took -- larry: i notice elon musk took public wraps at star gate billionaires saying they don't have enough money. at what point does elon get into trouble for his public political, shall we s

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surgeon general, vivek murthy. doctor murthy, thanks so much for coming in. >> good to be with you, wolf. >> so you've caused a huge stir out there with your recommendation that there's a connection between alcohol and cancer. why now? why did you make this announcement now? the timing coming near the end of this biden administration. >> well, wolf, the data has been building for some time now about the connection between alcohol and cancer risk. >> and i took a lot of time with my team to really dig into this data, understand its nuance, and what we realized were a few critical things. number one, there is a causal link between alcohol and seven types of cancer, including breast cancer and colon cancer. what we also found is that alcohol is now the third leading preventable cause of cancer in the united states, behind smoking and obesity, and it's responsible for 100,000 cases of cancer each year and 20,000 cancer deaths in the united states each year. >> well, what studies concluded that because it's so alarming?

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time-out. [ laughter ] does vivek ramaswamy think donald trump is team screech?] does vivek ramaswamy think for one second if given a choice between steve urkel and stefan urquelle, donald trump doesn't urquelle it 100 times out of 100? [ light laughter ] also, vivek clearly never saw "boy meets world," or he would know that the most beloved character on that show was topanga, who beat minkus for valedictorian and got into yale but only decided to go to pembroke so she could be with cory, over the advice of mr. feeny, who told her to go to yale. [ laughter ] and was obviously, feeny was fight. i mean, she worked her whole life to get into the school of her dreams, only to prioritize the needs of a boy over her own ambitions? although ultimately it worked out because she did become a successful lawyer on "girl meets world," even though i feel like she probably regrets not going to yale, and oh, [ bleep ], i've lost my mind. i've [ bleep ]. [ laughter ] i went on a "boy meets world" rant -- [ cheers and applause ] -- in the middle of "a closer look" because i have

you just have to look at his twitter feed to see some of the things he suggested in the vivek suggested. they are only nonstarters on capitol hill, but also the things that become a political disaster for any of the members of congress voting for them. when they start to understand how government works, they will adjust a little bit and try to figure out what it is they can't do. the third thing i would point out is, elon musk has given the head position or cochairmanship with vivek ramaswamy. i think senator mccaskill can tell you how much power blue ribbon commissions have in congress. to my experience, the answer is none. and you know, obviously, suggestions will be taken seriously by republicans on the hill, or at least some of them. it will be difficult to get votes for an entire package of cuts. >> you know, there's a question of what the legislative branch does. there's also the question of how useful, i will say, the cabinet agencies may be in carrying out parts of trump's agenda. on that note, i wonder what you make of the picks that trump has launched into the stratus sphere s

johnson tweeted his commitments going forward, working with doj, elon musk and vivek ramaswamy onwho want to cut $2 trillion o of the budget. we know there's not $2 trillion to cut. lots of us agree, way too much government spending, got to cut. but when you tick through, we saw it two weeks ago talking about the budget. congress doesn't want to make cuts. they can't get reelected. vivek ramaswamy and elon musk don't have to worry about that, they're private citizens not running for anything. how is legislating going to work? >> that's the problem that kevin mccarthy ran into. he gave people the impression they could do deeper spending cuts than practicable, and mike johnson will run into the same problem. you have to get through the senate, house of representatives can say you want to cut all day culong but doesn't make law. expecting $2 trillion in cuts that's impracticable, the bill will become due. the threshold to remove the speaker is nine members. freedom caucus put a letter out with 11 people, saying we have the people to kick you out if we have to. when they have to fund the

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vivek ramaswamy a founding member of doge and former presidential candidates.ing you are leaving doge after like three days, what happened? >> pursuant elected office very soon, but things are off to great started, president trump has proven. look at the actions first week, the most pro-marriage present we have had in a long time -- pro merit. and i'm confident they will succeed in slashing and burning that federal bureaucracy. >> jesse: people said you did not get along with elon musk? what is that is it incorrect, we had different but complementary approaches. i focused more on the constitutional law, he was more so of the technology approach vermaak nobody better than elon musk to lead to that. we talk about a constitutional revival it's not just done through the federal government, but federalism were states lead the way. i will say more on that very shortly. >> jesse: so elon musk did not fire you? >> know, we had a mutual discussion, divide and conquer, it's on a one-man show top-down or bottom-up, it's all of the above with. >> jesse: when you hear peopl

you have elon musk and vivek ramaswamy now in the mix.iterally dictating maneuvers in the house and the senate. this requires someone in the white house who can manage warring factions and trump's behavior up until this point has not been to manage warring factions but to pit people against each other. that might be interesting from a narrative point of view but from government point of view, seems like he is sets himself up for disappointment. what are your hopes for the senate being a source of potential mediation in all this? >> there is a song in the music man about trouble. and it says t that rhymes with p. and in that instance, that stands for primaries. so, what you are talking about is who in the senate that is a republican is so worried about a primary that they will do things that will get them in trouble in the general? people need to remember there are still states who will elect a republican or a democrat in the senate. pennsylvania is a good example. north carolina not too long ago. ohio who just turned over a seat by a pret

>> vivek ramaswamy is not going in to doge inside of this white house here.nor of ohio, which was a long planned effort. except we were initially told by sources that he intended to stick with doge and work with elon musk to go and do exactly what he said he was going to do during his own presidential campaign, which was this idea of cutting down on the administrative state and going and slashing not only the federal budget, but also going across departments and agencies and restructuring them. of course, the promise to do that was is very difficult when it comes to actually going about that, for example, to get rid of agencies that require congressional authorization under the presidential reorganization act. and there it's not clear that discussions had been had about seeking congressional approval. and of course, when you're cutting down agencies and departments, to michael's point, there's repercussions for that. and there was never a clear outline at all that was provided as to where they intended to cut from the federal budget. number one, elon musk has

is russell going if vivek goes and becomes a senator in ohio, that's just elon musk realizing, oh, he's nobody wants to be a co-head of anything. >> there can never be two bosses. you are a banker. >> yeah. >> you did. goldman sachs used to have co-heads one wins in the end. >> i will say that this restaurant thing that you're mentioning, this omb thing, this is the actual point of where the people we talk about project 2025, if they're really real changes that they want to make, are coming through this guy. this is the people that want, you know, they want to reschedule. that's what they call it, a federal employees and fire them for not being loyal enough. like if we start to see some of the ability, some of the things that trump has promised actually start to happen deep inside the government, it will happen through guys. >> like, that's what i've been saying, that, you know, even if you forgot about what was chaotic during the trump term, one trump 1.0, even if that even if that continues into trump 2.0. chaos in some ways is the currency. this sort of a misdirect or redirect, you'r

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vivek ramaswamy is a founding member of doge and former presidential candidate.we're hearing you're leaving doge after like three scaramucci's. what happened? >> well, the reality is i'm pursuing elected office. very shortly. we'll have an announcement soon. but, jesse, things are off to a great start, i think. president trump has proven. look at the actions that he took in that first week. the most pro merit president i think we've had in a long time. and as for my vision, grounded in constitutional law and the future of the country, i think it's best pursued through elected office, and i'm confident that they're going to succeed in slashing and burning that federal bureaucracy. >> people are saying you didn't get along with musk. what happened there? >> i think that's incorrect. but what i would say is we had different and complementary approaches. i focused more on a constitutional law, legislative based approach. he focused more on a technology approach, which is the future approach. no better person to lead that technology digital approach than elon musk. bu

in constant communication with vivek ramaswamy and elon musk anwad they aremy initiatives.heir policy initiativ s and legislature takee ha jurisdiction over the workforcee jurisdiction over the federal buildings.e ha we have jurisdiction over the u.s. postal service, which is something to talk about. we have jurisdiction over a lot thinof tech information technolt the tech geniuses are wanting to use to catch proper payments and other types of fraud. we will be busy in the upcominge session working closely with the entire trump administration. >> trey: all right, you and ime thlisten to something together d i will ask you about it on the other side. >> of course, the president has askee.d us and really needs us h e address the debt limit crisis before it hits in june. a lot of moving pieces and a loi of things to negotiate and a lot of opinions on that.blic we will be working long hours to make sure republicans are onboard because remember theargi smallest margin in history fory the first 100 days. >> trey: he put his finger on the chairman, the majority but incredibly narr

was it something that vivek ramaswamy and elon musk said.s a debate that needs to happen within the republican party. >> undoubtably is a debate that needs to happen not only within the republican party but within congress. i think elon musk and others they believe we need to continue to attract the best and the brightest into the united states and i agree but how do you do that and is the h-1b program as it is designed now and a minister now the best way to do that. i do believe that it is. again it is a lottery system and undercuts wages. there is a variety of different holes and loopholes i should say in that program that is not serving the interest of american or america workers for that matter. the notion of bringing the best and the brightest, the notion of bringing high-tech folks that want to start new businesses contribute to the american academy is a good notion. the question is how you do it. a visa program that was designed decades ago is not the case of the longer. trey: before i let your expertise off the hook you been discussi

: you're looking at some of the political and cultural celebrities arriving at the rotunda there's vivekwamy and we saw hilary and bill. elon musk spoke for trump's d.c. rally, listen to this, role it for a looking forward to making a lot of changes, what matters going forward to make significant changes and submit those changes and set the foundation for america to be strong for a century forever. i make america great again. she. >> steve big tech is well represented at this inaug inauguration, they donated millions to the inaugural fund, what do they get out of this? >> by the way was not elon musk i could not see the picture and the fact that he had all these technology guys whether zuckerberg, jeff bezos, elon musk all behind him, we have seven companies in this country that are amazing they have created so much for our 401k and millions of americans in totally dominant in the technology spectrum, the magnificent seven have more net value than all the companies in europe combine, trump and i want to see america continue with the domination of the tech sector in robotics coming nai in

. >> vivek murthy says consuming any kind of alcohol, including beer and wine, increases your risk foreven kinds of cancer and that it is the third leading preventable cause of cancer in america. >> abc news reporter zohreen shah has the story. >> the u.s. surgeon general now sounding the alarm about potential cancer causing dangers of even moderate amounts of alcohol consumption. vivek murthy on x stating that drinking is the third leading preventable cause of cancer after tobacco and obesity, and that it contributes to about 100,000 cancer cases and 20,000 cancer deaths each year. murthy stated that any kind of alcohol consumption increases risks for at least seven different cancers, including breast cancer for women and cancers in the colorectum esophagus, liver, mouth, throat, and voice box. the surgeon general also called for a reassessment and revision of the guideline limits for alcohol consumption to account for increased cancer risk, and suggests updating the current warning on alcohol beverages to include cancer risk warnings like those on cigarettes. >> it's not that surpris

>> vivek's a friend. he's very talented and i look forward to hearing what he's going to do in the future. and he's he's you know, i'm going to work with him on doge, though. we need we got to get that finished with with elon musk and vivek. we got to make sure that we take all the spending that we can out of government and reform it. i think that's what people want us to do, and i look forward to being a good partner with them. >> did trump say anything to you during y'all's call about whether or not he'd support you when when you do run again, given, you know, there could be a republican primary, we don't know what that field will look like at this moment. >> yeah. look, president trump was a little busy when i talked with him this morning. he was very supportive and encouraging. i think he'll have something to say about this soon, but i won't speak for him. i'll let i'll let him share those thoughts when it's time for him to do so. >> last question, sir, maybe the most important one for you on monday n

could be privately funded and vivek and elon themselves. could be us.n't disclosed them. >> seems like highly paid positions and super high iq people working 80 hour as week. lauren: you're not volunteering. >> not for 80 hour as week. lauren: elon musk set up shop in pennsylvania when he needed to barn storm the state to help candidate trump win. then he set up shop in mar-a-lago so he had access to the president elect helping to form what he's about to do in a couple of days, and now he's setting up shop in dc. stuart: richest man in the world did do what he likes, wherever he likes and whenever he likes. lauren: buys happiness. stuart: look at the market, plenty of green. dow up 650 and nasdaq up better than 2%. coming up, president biden has just five days left in office but don't expect him to fade into the background. >> do you plan to speak out after leaving washington or follow the bush model where you're kind of out of sight, out of mind? >> impactful not going to be out of sight, out of mind. stuart: tonight, biden will deliver his final oval

until i know what job -- i don't know what security card elon musk has or vivek.at their technical jobs are at this point. until we see this manifest in policy, it is just yapping from a bunch of basically palace entry republican elite. >> i will be honest, i don't think they will get a swipe card because this is an actual agency of the united states government that was created that you not have any appropriated funds. doj doesn't. for all practical purposes, it is a working group, you know, that's what it is. this point that you just made about this is an elitist conversation among the maga folks, i listened to mike johnson give his speech today when he accepted the speaker's gavel for the 119th congress, and he laid out this american first agenda. he talked about cutting the administrative state. those are cutting jobs. those are not just democrats or people that voted for joe biden or kamala harris. that will affect people across the board and disproportionately, i think, a number of folks that cast their ballot for donald trump and this maga movement. do you n

. >> brian: doge co-founder vivek ramaswamy will no longer head the department leaving elon musk as thehite house with more. what's the back story? >> so he is stepping away, possibly for future endeavors. and i will get to that in just a second. elon musk was spotted here on the white house complex yesterday and noticeably absent was his doge duo brother vivek ramaswamy. now, a trump transition spokesperson says that vivek has stepped away from the department of government efficiency he is possibly going to run for the governor of ohio. on social media he says it was my honor to help support the creation of doge. i'm confident that elon and the team will succeed in streamlining government. i will have more to say soon about my future plans for ohio. last night when president trump signed the executive order creating doge. he was asked about the world's richest person getting in office in the west wing this is order implementing the document department of government efficiency doge. >> peter: is elon musk getting an office? >> no. is he getting an office for about 20 people that we are

vivek ramaswamy and elon musk don't have to worry about that. they're private citizens who don't have to run for anything. so how is legislating actually going to work here? >> this is the problem kevin mccarthy ran into. he gave people the impression they were going to be able to do far deeper spending cuts than were practical. and mike johnson is going to run into the same problem kevin mccarthy did. you have to get things through the senate. you can sit there in the house of representatives and say you want to cut, cut, cut all day long. and if people think you're going to cut $2 trillion, which is impractical, at some point the bill is going to come due. freedom caucus puts out a letter shortly after this vote, there's 11 of them signing it. i don't think it's an accident they were showing we have the numbers if we want to to kick you at at some point. and it wouldn't surprise me which march, for example, if they have to fund the government the first opportunity to do something fiscal, this is going to come right back around and we're going

i think elon and vivek have done a great job in highlighting the spending cuts that need to come up and they are going to do more of that. we're using crowd sourcing whether they are using a.i. they are identifying stuff. we're identifying stuff but here is the key. we have to set this up for success. my view is if we can get defense spending done early we can have a real debate in march when we have a cr expire for the regular appropriations process. we can actually get back to having a real conversation about returning the bureaucracy to pre-covid levels in 2019. that's basically how we can get elon and vivek to have success in cutting the trillion dollars they want to cut or 2 trillion. if we can set the stage for success. that's what i want to do is move quickly. if we try to build too big of a bill too quick, it will take longer to get accomplished. i think we should deliver on defense, on border, move the debt ceiling for the president and immediately get early cuts, get rid of the ev mandate and all sit in a room for the next month or two, identify the cuts and then we'll be in a

vivek ramaswamy doesn't think america should be the first hires into tech companies.e says they hire foreign born because our american culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long. but the tech pros and donald trump apparently think americans are too dumb and/or lazy to apply for these jobs. trump told the new york post, i have always liked the visas, that is why we have them. report also pointed out that trump restricted access to foreign workers in his first administration and has been critical of the program in the past. among the maga faithful, the loudest voice is steve bannon. >> you can be part of this but you will not sit here and lie to our face and expect to say, oh, because you are worth $500 billion, you people are taking money, take money, i don't care. i could care less, i am a crazy freaking irishman. >> it is not just a visa issue, this is a symptom of raw shock trump politics. he has been able to survive the last four years by focusing on the media and the deep sea. we are about to find out what happens when trump, elon musk, mike

elon musk and vivek ramaswamy are notjust running the support department of covenant efficiency, betteronald trump's frech enthusiasm for the tech sector and crypto. so how are these very different agendas be made into one? in agendas be made into one? i“! automatic echo chamber but actually having different views about what to do, the impact will be and then he will make the decision as is likely his decision. the decision as is likely his decision-— the decision as is likely his decision. ~ ~' ., ., , decision. we know from his first administration - decision. we know from his first administration that - first administration that donald trump likes a white house full of different factions, struggling in louder disagreement. it seems that when it comes to his economic team, he has done that again. which could lead to all sorts of fallings out in the global economy. michelle fleury, bbc news, new york. those are players but what the policies? donald trump has also vowed to issue a slew of executive orders on his first day in office, including a crackdown on immigration. adrian ang, a re

elon musk and vivek ramaswamy aren'tjust running the so—called department of government efficiency, they'reey and reflect donald trump's fresh enthusiasm for the tech sector and crypto. so, how will these very different agendas be made into one? he's notjust getting one echo chamber but actually having different views about what to do, what the impacts will be and then, he's gonna make the decision — as is rightly his decision. we know from his first administration that donald trump likes a white house full of different factions, struggling in loud disagreement. it seems that when it comes to his economic team, he's done that again — which could lead to all sorts of fallings—out in the global economy. michelle fleury, bbc news, new york. so those are the players but what about the policies? donald trump has vowed to issue a slew of executive orders on his first day in office, including a crackdown on immigration. adrian ang, a research fellow and expert in us politics at rsis, explains what we can expect in the coming days. trump will move first on domestic politics, as you mentioned. there

vivek ramaswamy is part of doge to get rid of the waste. rumors yesterday he might stay in ohio and run for governor. anybody's guess on his future. >> dana: as you said maybe we're about 30 seconds away from the motorcade leaving the white house to make its way to the capitol. we won't miss a moment of it. we have our eyes on all the prizes. we see congress members, jim comer, vivek ramaswamy as you mentioned. >> budget committee chairman. >> dana: jody arrington, that's exactly right. >> steny hoyer. >> dana: he said he would run again, karl. when i was a young pup on capitol hill in 1995 he was there. all these members of congress got a seat. not a plus one. a lot of jockeying to get seats for this amazing moment. >> jim clyburn proceeded by brian mast of florida. ken calvert. >> dana: marjorie taylor greene coming in right there. super orderly and we will go to the white house in just a moment but we are joined by larry kudlow. great to have you here with us. thank you for being here. a couple questions before we go to the motorcade com

but vivek murthy. surgeon general of the united states who wants to put health warnings on alcohol because there is increased risk of cancer with excessive use and i think we need to take a harder look at the things we use, whether it is marijuana or alcohol which gets used pretty widely in the united states. i think it is a bold step on his part. we saw stocks tumble but i think it is wise. people should be well aware of the consequences of what they do in respect to particular substances that sometimes lead to abuse. >> white do you think it hasn't happened sooner? >> i don't know, that is a good question. we know that downside, but putting a cancer warning on it, i think it is unique and bold. >> it's because of the big money involved. mine is in actual basketball star, 7'3" victor wembanyama, he came to new york right before the new year. he came to play the knicks and after a game, 9:30 the next morning he tweets out, who wants to go to washington square park and play chess with me? a ton of peopl

vivek ramaswamy joined the musk side of the argument by saying that american workers are just not as good as foreign workers. american workers are mediocre. vivek ramaswamy said quote american culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long. imagine if any democrat, anywhere ever said that american workers are mediocre? itso where is trump coming down on all this? it has always been clear he shares the tech bro's contempt for ordinary americans but is he willing to openly sell out his maga base? after elon musk told trump loyalists to f themselves in the face, trump sided with musk. the terrorist attack into new orleans brings into sharp focus what is at stake in the senate confirmation hearing of donald trump's choice for director of the fbi. they are asking questions of the nominee who has publicly said, he wants to eliminate the intelligence unit and the fbi that investigates terrorist plots and has successfully stopped many of those plots before they were carried out. here is what kash patel said he wants to do with that unit of the fbi and with the rest of the

talk to your neurologist about vivek murthy. hi trudeau for gmg and picture your life in motion. home. >> it's where we do the things we love with the people we love. celebrating sharing, living. so why should aging mean we have to leave that in the past? what if we lived tomorrow in the same place as we did yesterday? what if we stayed home instead? with help, we can all. >> this is where i belong. homestead for a better. >> what's next? >> the whole story with anderson cooper is a five time emmy winner for long form journalism. this week is overtourism threatening venice? the whole story with anderson cooper sunday at eight on cnn. >> elon musk, the billionaire political pot stirrer, is now on the attack in britain, where he has accused the prime minister of malfeasance using his x platform to level the accusations. now, british lawmakers are demanding action over elon musk's inflammatory social media campaign against their government. the tech billionaire has launched repeated attacks against british prime minister keir starmer over his past role in handling historic child abu

vivek murthy. get people to help they need. infrastructure, climate, resilience, clean energy are constant priorities for cities. and we will insist that we keep moving forward and not sacrifice any of the momentum we have built. friends, i close this morning by appealing to every mayor's sense of optimism and wonder. we have come so far. our cities are strong. our cities are safe. our cities are healthier than they have been in years. we have shown what is possible when solutions rise above politics, when getting things done is not bogged down by partisanship or pessimism. there is nothing we cannot do. and it is my hope that this spirit of cooperation continues to carry the day. america has never needed mayors more than right now. let us honor and echo the spirit of my grandmother, and make sure every person knows there is a seat for them in our cities. everyone here this weekend believes in the power of public to do good. and for the next three days, next several years, america mayors will set a

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