joining me now is doug jones, former democratic senator and former us attorney from alabama, and jason johnson, professor of journalism and politics at morgan state university and host of the podcast award with jason johnson. i'll come to you in a moment, but i want to come to you first, jason, because the reality is, you know, and you and i have chatted about this, there is a it's easy to demonize the government because most people don't know what government agencies do. and they have a vague sense that when we pay our taxes, the government is wasting the money. so if you say, well, all this money went to foreign aid, people say, okay, good, cut that, because they really don't know what it is, but they seem to be at this sort of dodge, whatever it is, taking advantage of that by saying, we found all this waste, fraud and abuse. and they have no, they're not proving it. they're just putting out a list of things they claim they're cutting. >> well, yeah. >> they have no. >> proof because they. >> never knew. >> any of this stuff. right. i mean, the thing is, you have elon musk who is ru

former senator doug jones, democrat of alabama and former representative carlos curbelo, republican ofda. thank you both for joining us. so let's start with these senate confirmations. doug, are any of these nominees in danger of being rejected? >> you know. >> i think they're all in danger. how much. >> danger remains to be seen? >> i think. >> that the general consensus. >> is they're likely to get through. but at the same time, you've got to have. republican senators. who are very, very uncomfortable. >> with each of those nominees. >> each of those nominees, in their own. >> way. >> represent folks that are unqualified. some, i would even say should be disqualified. and you can only go down the list. we don't have time. to rehash all the hearings, but each one of them have serious problems and i think each one will come. it's republican senators. different senators will look at these differently. >> for instance. >> i think senator cassidy should have really serious problems. you could tell he was uncomfortable in the way. >> that he was questioning. >> but tulsi gabbard, republica

correspondent peter alexander, reuters white house correspondent jeff mason, former democratic senator doug jones, former republican congressman from florida david jolly and catherine christian, former assistant manhattan district attorney. so, peter, you questioned the white house press secretary earlier today about those cuts. what did that look like? >> yeah, i had an extended. >> back and forth with karine leavitt, of course, the press secretary here, where i asked her about some of the. >> words we have heard. >> from those constituents at town halls in traditionally red districts around the country, including those that you played. moments ago. and by and large, she blamed. >> the media. >> for. >> amplifying, as she described it, a few critics. >> in her words. >> when she says the. >> overwhelming number of americans. >> right now. support exactly what. president trump is doing, she says that the president is simply. >> delivering on. >> the promises that he has made so far. then i followed up by asking. >> her specifically. >> about the claims that the administration has found tens. of b