the president says cabinet officers should play a bigger role deciding who in their department gets cut. he says they should go first in deciding which workers have to go rather than waiting for orders from elon musk. trump is not raining elon in but streamlining doghe to make the to part of government efficiency more efficient, a necessary change, too often cabinet members have no knowledge of the changes musk was proposing for their own department, too often, high valued workers are being let go and needed to be rehired when the department realized they had to stay. that created chaos which could eventually have hurt the president. click on his approval rating remains strong but nip to the bad pr in the bud. >> i want cabinet members to keep good people. i don't want to see a big cut where a lot of good people are cut. i want cabinet members to keep the good people in the people who are doing a good job that are unreliable don't show up to work, those people can be cut. so i had a meeting and said i want cabinet members to go first, keep all the people you want, everybody you need and

the next day, cabinet officers are pushing back. all of this instability is obviously very hard, not only for business, but local governments, foreign nations, anyone who has to plan. you know, it's good for it's good for donald trump in that the fact that nothing ever seems to be settled means it is very difficult for anyone to kind of view their position as solid. and everyone, everyone feels they have to kind of remain on his good side, or he could turn on them on a moment. >> now, we did hear about that apparently explosive cabinet meeting with elon musk. the new york times revealed some absolutely extraordinary details about it. in fact, saying that simmering anger at the billionaire's unchecked power spilled out in a remarkable cabinet room meeting. the president quickly moved to rein in mr. musk. and yet, from what we know of that meeting, from what the new york times reported, donald trump seemed to enjoy this. you know, the fact that he had pitted one end of his cabinet against, you know, the doge the doge enforcer. >> look

you know, the cabinet officers. are the front line. >> people who. >> are going to. >> be. >> held responsible. >> when the rubber. >> as the. >> rubber meets the road, as the. >> transportation secretary. >> said, you know, it's one thing. for you to come in and say, let's fire a bunch of air traffic controllers. but basically he's saying, i'm the one who's going to have to respond if there's a major plane crash. and you know, that, i think is what we've talked about this before, you know, whatever. >> degree of. >> backlash there is. >> at the front end and there is some and maybe more than i would have expected in terms of town halls and public opinion polls showing public concern about kind of the indiscriminate and almost reckless nature of these cuts, there's a great deal more. political exposure on the back end when, you know, if. you start reducing the federal workforce and the way that they are when things go wrong, like this measles epidemic in west texas, people are going to be asking questions. and i thi

entrepreneurial, and most success oriented and most achieved oriented cabinet, every one of those cabinet officersants to go, they want to go there with him, you will have aggressive solid cabinet secretaries who work as partners with musk. and together they will dramatically reshape the government of united states, into a more decentralized smaller, more efficient and dramatically lid fraud-ridden, this is an amazing historic moment. larry: you have been fighting for it for 4 years now, newt gingrich you are the best of the best, we'll talk soon thank you, sir. >> coming up on kudlow. ej antoni, will update the trade picture. all that when kudlow returns, we have a 30 day reprieve on usmca, trump is right, reciprocity is correct. sometimes. timing everything is. i'm kudlow we'll be right back. an alternative to pills, voltaren is a clinically proven arthritis pain relief gel, which penetrates deep to target the source of pain with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine directly at the source. voltaren, the joy of movement. ♪ empower ♪ so handsome. oh, i can't buy this. woah, woah. your empower i

and i think the cabinet office is implicitly are acknowledging that they and by extension, the administration and the president are really going to be the ones on the hook if events go south after the federal government makes these kind of cuts in all sorts of areas of the federal government, including food safety, air safety, rail safety, occupational health, and so forth. and i think you saw that very clearly in that meeting. >> yeah, because there is a lot of concern, isn't there, about cuts to veterans affairs hitting veterans specifically working in that department and big concerns to across the board about a lack of surgical precision when making these cuts. even trump, now insisting that they use a scalpel, not a sledgehammer. how does a country run with this whiplash approach to policy, and what might happen in the end? do you think? >> yeah, well, the whiplash i think is even is even deeper than we're discussing, because, you know, i have felt for the last several years that we have been living really in the 21st century. we've been living through this kind of policy whiplash that ea

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that's how she ended up having an influence and so their office i mean a cabinet department and the office of the first lady, which was not even in office yet. eleanor roosevelt dramatically expanded the role of the first lady. they both worked on similar things. sometimes they correspond sometimes like eleanor roosevelt would send a note to frances perkins and be like, i know this person or. i know someone who knows this person can. you see why their immigration case has been held? i've even seen examples her saying like, that's literally the state department's problem. and at the same time, like some of the some of the people who were helping refugees in the state department were like friends with the roosevelts personally. so, i mean, someone can write book on that honestly, like a comparison that is not my book to write, but i've seen like a trend of books about the parallel lives of people who are around at the same time, how they were the same and how they were different. so it's definitely a question that i find interesting. and then your second question was about the child refugee

he prints these letters out and puts them in a file cabinet in his office at the mansion.s to his mistress? and the ones from her. they're in a file! this dumbass printed them out and put 'em in a folder and then filed 'em away. [laughs] i mean... i just keep coming up to the... i... it's just so weird to me because all these politicians who work so hard... right. ...and they throw it away for sex. and it's just always so crazy to me as somebody who covers politics, it's so common, and it's so dumb, and i just-- i never truly understand it. the thing about a political figure that you've got to keep in mind-- number one is compartmentalization, their ability to isolate each segment of their world as though it didn't exist. they have to be able to do that. if you meet jenny sanford and you meet belén, they're polar opposite people. all of a sudden, belén found a hole to get into the gap in his life and filled it. but then he compartmentalizes, and he's this method actor, so he goes back to being mark sanford, you know, actor-governor, without ever letting on that he's having

that every government agency and cabinet office has either a piece of legislation or charter establishingexistence and purpose. if the agency or cabinet level department is living up to its charter, this legislation, cannot be done better by the private sector and more economically, we keep it. if not, we get rid of it. that is what businesses do. that is what audits are for. we have all of this waste. i mentioned earlier the inspector general at the social security administration found in a seven-year period $72 billion worth of waste. that is serious money. if the inspector general can find that in the social security administration and it is found in other departments, i think every government agency ought to come before congress every couple of years and justify its existence. what would be wrong with that? things keep going on. the federal government employs more people than any other agency or industry in the country. for what purpose? let's find out. it is our money they are spending or borrowing money in the interest we are paying on it. we deserve answers to these questions. host

that every government agency and cabinet office has either a piece of legislation or charter establishingistence and purpose. if the agency or cabinet level department is living up to its charter, this legislation, cannot be done better by the private sector and more economically, we keep it. if not, we get rid of it. that is what businesses do. that is what audits are for. we have all of this waste. i mentioned earlier the inspector general at the social security administration found in a seven-year period $72 billion worth of waste. that is serious money. if the inspector general can find that in the social security administration and it is found in other departments, i think every government agency ought to come before congress every couple of years and justify its existence. what would be wrong with that? things keep going on. the federal government employs more people than any other agency or industry in the country. for what purpose? let's find out. it is our money they are spending or borrowing money in the interest we are paying on it. we deserve answers to these questions. host:

but this is a significant development after we have seen elon musk in the the oval office standing in the cabinet room and now a cabinet meeting, not on camera, the president and the white house decided to havthis meeting today, not on camera, where they were talking about how it's not elon musk who's in charge, it's these cabinet agencies. so a pretty significant development here. again, coming in the context of after mr. musk, certainly popular among some republicans, but getting an earful as well about some of these cuts that constituents have been complaining about to members of congress. >> yeah, it's been difficult to pinpoint exactly who should be held responsible for some of the cuts and the confusion. folks getting fired and then rehired and contracts getting canceled that, you know, we're actually canceled like 20 years ago. doge taking credit for that. not a lot of it makes sense. nevertheless, jeff zeleny, we appreciate you breaking it down for us. so many businesses have been caught in the middle of trump's tariff whiplash as they negotiate and navigate how to make decisions about th

cabinet members are confirmed by congress. well, elon musk holds press conferences in the oval office. he lectures the cabinet.ederal agencies. we had a long conversation today about how he said he was going to kill usaid. he sent people in there to do it. he was personally involved. and then several days later, he said, i spent the week and we spent the weekend feeding usaid into the woodchipper. could have gone to some great parties. let me tell you, it was no party for the thousands of men and women of usaid who represent america's interests around the world. you can't do that under the constitution. and that was the case we made today. he has no power to do that. >> did you get a ruling yet from the bench, from the judge in this case? >> both sides got tough, smart questions from the judge. we thought we had the better answers. we don't have the ruling yet. he's taking it under advisement and we are working on it. >> you know, norm, you guys got a good victory yesterday at a federal court in california. a federal judge ruling in your favor, stating that the trump administration's firing of thousands of pro

the role of a cabinet officer is threefold. >> you run a large department. >> of our government.rsue the president's political agenda at that cabinet department, but you also serve as an advisor to the president, as a member of the cabinet, to tell the president every once in a while, whether it's donald. >> trump or. >> barack obama, things that he doesn't want to hear, that he needs to hear. you're not there simply to follow orders from the president, from stephen miller and elon musk. it's vital to a functioning, effective government that a president have people in his cabinet of wisdom, experience. and tell the president what he what he needs to hear. >> and i worry. >> that he's not getting that right now. >> you know, ronald reagan, j. a quote reagan said was, we know only too well that war comes not when the forces of freedom are strong, but when they are weak. that is when tyrants are tempted and going to what you what you said about ronald reagan. there's a reason why there are statues in eastern europe to ronald reagan in warsaw, a large statue to ronald reagan streets.

kind of anti-constitutional coup, this unelected billionaire dictating policy, standing in the cabinet office think a lot of people have felt like democrats don't quite know how to speak to quite this level. >> of severity. >> and i think a lot of people i meet feel very undefended. they feel kind of rampaged by the right and undefended by the left. i know you and your colleagues are doing things. things are being done. there are meetings, there are committees. but i just a very visceral level. i would say most lay democrats that i meet feel just very undefended feel. it's not clear. there's no briefings, there's no shadow cabinet. a lot of different ideas have been proposed. do you think there's truth in that feeling, even though you and your colleagues are doing something and how how close are democrats to figuring out a way to respond to this moment that would address that? >> so steve bannon and. >> steve miller advising. >> the president, said. >> we are going. >> to flood. >> the zone. and we're. >> seeing that. and we've. >> never. you know, how many announcements each day. >> just tha

and it's in those small spaces, be it in the cabinet room, the oval office, the roosevelt room, you can'tre's a certain criteria that the correspondents association has had since the beginning of the pool. and let me tell you something. it was that press pool. that was the one who put out the word that john f kennedy was killed. it was the press for the press pool has been in existence since way before all of this happened, and ap was always there. ap was always there. ap has been the standard bearer with their stylebook. et cetera on who we are as the press. and now things have changed. and once you change this with the press, i don't know where we go from here because again, we're the first line of questioning an american president with the fourth estate, with the checks and balances. don't check out. you go to the accountability of questioning the president. and now. >> and this is important because the ap there's a little bit of punishment going on here. right. because the ap has decided not to call the gulf of mexico the gulf of america in certain circumstances, and they're mad at th

office. looking now you can see the cabinet coming in to the chamber light by mark review. to collins who is there, veterans affairs secretary will not be in the team, but he is the designated survivor. the mind hospice day back at the white house in case the unthinkable happens. don't jump is going to talk in a lot of issues. he's going to say that he has been a big success. he's achieve more than 4 weeks in office than many presidencies have in 4 years. he's going to talk about how the border crossings are no time to incredibly low levels. but he wouldn't talk about how the ability and the effort to try and the poor people who are in the country is a lower level than it was under to biden's last 6 months in office. he's going to talk about how he wants to exploit, rid, ask minerals in the us and how he's going to push your cream for the deal for the rear. at minerals that had been speculated that he would have known to deal during the state of the union. that certainly hasn't been flagged by anyone from the white house, although it's still a possibility. i suppose. he's g

one question the fact that donald trump's confidence at this .2017 when he first came into office he had a cabinetho was on his team he has the cabin he wants pete hegseth or kash patel or tulsi gabbard or bobby kennedy junior. he got all these people through people said there's no way to get to be confirmed. now he has confidence in the fact that he is the team around him to bring forth the agenda but to your point yes to get the tax cuts through. the house, mike johnson incredible job as far as the house speaker hurting the cats in getting the budget passed. the question is will the senate pass something similar that goes back to the house and as a president sign it has to become lot cannot be executive orders. >> one of the things under the radar a brief comment about chips and taiwan and that is a little bit about national security. there is an element there that's involved any went on to talk about human life in ukraine but taiwan is a concern in the mix business interest which he has in both countries. taylor: i love that you talked about national security. when taiwan semi manufacturer came

some of these cabinet secretaries have been in office for a couple of weeks. >> some of them a coupleys. right. >> some of them a couple of days. so this is only normal. but in many ways, elon musk has set a standard, right. we're going to make the government more efficient. polling shows 60%. i have a poll this week. 60% of the country thinks trump is keeping his promises on that. so musk has set a standard. now the cabinet secretaries have to live up to it and trump's going to empower them. i don't see how this is not the process at work as it's supposed to work. >> yeah. i mean, i do think at the end of the day, this has always been the question, and this is what for democrats, they are not just secretly hoping but outwardly hoping will happen is that trump doesn't have. a modulating switch, that he just goes full bore. we're going to go all in with musk no matter what the blowback. we're going to go all in on. tariffs no matter what the blowback. we're going to go all in on these tax cuts. >> no matter what. >> the blowback. >> and in this case, right. pulling back a little bit. n

cabinet. leaders of the kansas tribes, and all the constitutional officers and legislators assembled. it is an honor to speak with you tonight, and i want to thank you for the very warm welcome. it is also my honor to welcome lieutenant governor david tolan and his family in the gallery, his wife beth, and their children, caroline and william. along with my family members, especially my granddaughter rory, who are joining us via livestream. for much of my time in office, we have been focused on righting the wrongs of the past. getting our state back on the road to prosperity. that is exactly what we have accomplished together. refunded our public schools six years in a row. [applause] we balanced the state budget six years in a row. [applause] we closed the bank of k. and we are investing in roads and bridges and broadband. [applause] we have attracted the largest economic development progress -- projects in the history of our state. [applause] we pay down our debt, and we have seen our state's financial ratings be upgraded three times. [applause] we completely asked the tax on grocer

. >> and then back here at home, president trump's cabinet members are standing behind him after friday's tense oval officeting. >> and they're. >> also offering. >> criticism of president zelenskyy. >> we're trying to get putin. >> to a. >> negotiating table. >> don't let's not. everyone knows. >> the history here, the back and forth. >> we understand that. >> we all. >> understand that. >> but the. >> question now. >> is can. >> we get. >> them to a table to negotiate? that's our goal. >> don't do anything. >> to disrupt that. >> and that's. >> what zelenskyy did. >> unfortunately. >> it. >> wasn't clear to us. >> that that. >> president zelenskyy. >> was was. >> ready to negotiate. in good. faith towards an end. >> to this war. >> coming to the oval office. >> you know, with. >> the body. >> language, the shaking of. >> head. >> the you. >> know, the kind. >> of. >> the arms crossed. >> we just. it we found it incredibly disrespectful. >> all president. >> zelenskyy had to do was come in and sign this economic agreement and again show no daylight. >> no daylight. >> between the ukrainian people and the

an act of congress, and we know the guy in charge of it has not been elected to any office or confirmed to any cabinetion. up to this point, all we knew for certain about d.o.g.e. is who that guy in charge is, which trump made clear right before his inauguration. >> we will create the new department of government efficiency, headed by a gentleman named elon musk. >> stephen: "but i couldn't find a gentleman named elon musk, so instead i hired this sociopathic tech doofus. there he is. how are you? you like the human food?" well, it turns out being an unelected donor running an unauthorized employee kill squad might get you sued at some point in the future. so, in new legal filings, the white house claims that elon musk is not in charge at d.o.g.e. what?! it's literally named after his favorite meme! this is the most confusing leadership structure since ruth's chris steakhouse. who is chris? why does he seem to belong to ruth? wait, wait, wait. does that mean we're eating chris? is he the steak? is he the human food?! [applause] chris! he will be missed. trump is also crippling other countries out ther

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with a continued, i think it's fair to say, barrage of concerns from trump cabinet officials about zelenskyy's position in office, suggesting maybe ukraine needs another leader. this all comes after lindsey graham, senator lindsey graham suggested perhaps he needed to resign or find a way to fix this relationship that hasn't let up. and indeed, trump's truth social posting suggesting that america would not put up with it much longer. referring to that quote about peace being very far away. adds to that idea. conversely, the commerce secretary, howard lutnick, has suggested that trump is not interested in changing ukraine's president. i just need to point out to people how incredibly complicated ukrainian officials. analysts say the idea of changing a presidency in wartime would indeed be on the constitution. you get the parliamentary speaker if the president resigns until you can hold elections, but you can't hold elections in wartime. so you would really need peace to lift martial law. and then most officials, including the deputy head of the election commission here, say you need six months to prepare because

alick to president trump who was responsible for getting a lot of the cabinet members counseling them, walking with them to the officesi do not spend that much time on the hill. i go there day today it's a quick way to get quotes. i think what is really interesting to your point is how much the makeup of both the senate and the house has changed over the last eight years. how much it's donald trump's party. you look at that group obviously elizabeth warren is not included in this comment about how many people who are real advocates wasn't trump's first term in a lot of ways it was not just democrats who were objecting to it trump wanted to do an office but his own party. they found him a little unserious. they did not seem to like him very much. and so that is completely different. these are people who like trump, liked what he was doing and ultimately no that the american public that voted for trump is with trump and not necessarily with them. >> jason often the senators line up in a d in an art together and walk over but not sure they're going to do at this time. they very well may. but 53 -- 47 and as jasmine was s

. >> i don't think we should expect oval office and leader like the president cabinet officials. >> bothnto those negotiations is president zelenskyy? >> bret: so what comes next after that meeting on friday? all that's been said over the weekend? well an ap headline really caught some attention. ukraine, zelenskyy says, end of war with russia is very, very far away. that prompted president trump to respond on truth social saying that's the worst statement that zelenskyy could have made. america won't put up with it much longer. this guy doesn't want there to be peace as long as he has america's backing in the europe meeting with zelenskyy stated flatly they cannot do the job without the u.s. probably not a great statement to have been made in terms of a show of strength against russia. what are they thinking? with that, let's bring in our panel tonight. brian kilmeade co-host of "fox & friends." stef kight and leslie marshall democratic strategist. brian, what do you think, all that's been said and now they are considering whether to continue aid or not. >> brian: well, i think that rea

. >> i've been in the oval office and actually i was in the cabinet cabinet room when elon musk and trump were both there and had some of the exchange that you had shown earlier. and i will say, i. >> think that. >> today felt a little. >> bit. >> more like a sort of a nuanced shift in the public way that the president is talking about the relationship. it's not a rift of any kind. it's not, you know, i think all of washington has been waiting for the elon trump divorce. and that's not. >> never going to happen. >> well, you know, we never say never. but that that's not what this is. it's a slight rebalancing. and it's a little bit of a guardrail that's being put up. but i don't i don't see elon musk's power really receding all that much. even today i see it more as trump, you know, further explaining what he wants. and there is you know, there's a. >> go ahead, right. look, right now, if he's an advisor, he gets to do all kind of stuff. but donald trump said in his speech, he's in charge. that opens elon up to all those emails. can now be foia requested. this this is backpedaling because

>> reporter: this is a slate of nominees prepared by the presidential personnel office including a number of sub cabinets and a number of your ambassadors previously announced and also crucially given the administration's concerted effort to focus on violent crime. it includes a number of u.s. attorneys in major cities that have real crime problems. >> president donald trump: okay. some very good people. >> thank you. we have a number of ceremonial proclamations. >> two very special, the first of which is a proclamation that proclaims march 2025 as women's history month in honor of all the wonderful women in your administration, all the wonderful women in america and in honor of everything you've done for women in this administration and what the administration has done for women. >> president donald trump: we've done a lot. and women have done a lot for us. this is an honor. we have a wonderful woman here, maria. nice to have you, maria. >> thank you, mr. president. thank you for all that you are doing for women. >> president donald trump: we are doing an interview later but maybe i shouldn't do it. li

office. listen. >> i want the cabinet members to keep good people. i don't want to see a big cut where a lot of good people are cut. so we're going to be watching them, and ellen and the group are going to be watching them. and if they can cut, it's better. and if they don't cut, then ellen will do the cutting. >> so. so you've served in a cabinet. i mean, what would that be like, do you think, to have someone who comes in and at least up until today, seem to have a lot of authority over your department? >> yeah. it's unimaginable. and that was the honor of my lifetime to serve in president obama's cabinet for seven years. and we didn't do everything perfect. we made more than our share of mistakes. but i can tell you our heart was always in it for the right reasons. and if i had someone like elon musk looking over my shoulder, there's no way anyone with any talent, any real integrity, any clear moral compass is going to work under those conditions. and so it's just it's unimaginable to me. and it's just you're going to get people leaving. you're goi

cabinet yesterday. musk is hanging close with president trump in the oval office tonight. he was also spotted boarding marine one with him as trump and his team headed to mar a lago for the weekend. yet all kinds of new wild details are coming out on that apparently explosive meeting at the white house yesterday. that meeting saw president trump hauling in members of his cabinet into a room with the doge leader. amid growing grumblings about musk from some of his top appointees. these new details coming from the new york times, several of their sources take us inside that room, where secretary of state marco rubio and secretary of transportation sean duffy reportedly clashed with musk. the times writing, quote, rubio was incensed. elon musk was letting him have it. accusing him of failing to slash his staff. you have fired nobody. musk told rubio. rubio. musk, adding that rubio was good on tv, with the clear subtext being that he was not good for much else. it was musk's anger that reportedly caught people in the room by surprise. but that didn't stop rubio from hitting ba

of representatives and there is the 25th amendment and you get the cabinet together to say that the president is unfit to hold office because of physical or mental disability. that is not happening any time soon and you still need congress to go along with that. the truth is that president trump has a lot of support in his party and strong support from republicans that would have to change dramatically to have a chance of removing him from office. right now it's not in the cards. >> william in burlington, north carolina is asking you on text. would you say identity politics and a 2 party system are more the problem overall. >> we have had a two party system for much of our political history and we find ways for it to work. parties are coalitions, they are not all people that agree on the same ideas. there is always internal dissension within parties, internal disagreements that have to be worked out. that is true about the republican party today. but in some of his moods president trump makes it seem like disagreeing with him is an unhealthy act. that is not the way the two parties need to function in our system. id

paul: donald trump held the first cabinet meeting of his second term when he toweled the progress of his first few weeks in officecut the size of the federal government. and effort that is dividing american voters with 55% in a recent quinnipiac university poll saying musk has too much power in making decisions affecting the united states. karl rove served as senior advisor to president george w. bush. good to see you as usual. >> on this border, unbridled success. there was a particular weekend day they were tracking and the number of border crossing was less then 300. less then 3% of what is normally coming across the border. when it comes to the border and border security, great success. more complicated when it comes to the other things the president talked about in the meeting. inflation, we got a report for january up 0.3%, that works out to 2. 5% annualized for the headline number and 2. 6% % for the core inflation number so this, before we start putting tariffs in, we are still not at the 2%, we are stuck above that but the target is 2% and the question is going to be how the coming round of tariffs, 10%

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there is an iga office in every agency and cabinet secretary of president trump.known fact. we expand across the agencies. we are the entry point for the white house, yes but for the other agencies as well. when we get information into us, we get it out to the agencies. it is not a campaign mentality. we have weekly meeting where we bring all the iga leads to the white house. this person sent us this request, where are we at with it? we make sure it doesn't die in the cogs of the government system but it is turned around and we are getting answers to people. >> i'm asking you a lot about what iga is going to do -- how will it work. that me flip that -- what can we as county partners due to be effective in this intergovernmental partnership? >> thank you, judge. it is a good question and the honest answer is a little bit -- i don't know. the biggest thing for us is communicating with us. where we have business hours this afternoon, tomorrow as well where our staff will be here, please be sure to stop by and get them all of your information and get their information

cabinet member sba kelly love herrera on importance of trump's tax cuts on small business. first, fox news peter doocy live at the white house. peter, what's cooking? reporter: larry, i came out of the oval office a few minutes ago and president trump talked about the meeting earlier today with a majority of the cabinet and elon musk, and they were trying to make sure it was a smooth road forward. he basically told saboteur net secretaries they need to work with musk and it's not because he thinks that musk is doing anything wrong or that he's wanting them to wok together on issues of staffing and wants the cabinet departments to keep staff that they want and let musk know which ones they don't want. going for them and not many people that don't work. trump elaborated and now my cabinet is in place and instructed them to work with doge on cost cutting measures and staffing and secretaries learn about and understand and people working for various departments can be precise as to who will remain and who will go. the scappee lines rather than -- scalpel rather than the hat chet and elon musk's meeting on the d hill yesterday with republican lawmakers and pitched an idea by rand paul and others abo

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i don't think we should expect for leaders to come into the oval office and played dear leader like the president's cabinetfficials and others may be doing. that isn't what we should expect of them. they had to listen to a litany of lies and misinformation and i thought he did it with incredible calm and then of course you saw the president, the vice president turn on him and bully him and that spectacle, as he played earlier today is being warmly received and embraced by our adversaries by putin and the russians and you can be sure the president is keeping an eye on what's happening with ukraine as he keeps another eye on taiwan. this was a total disaster for those of us who believe in american foreign policy where we respect our allies and friends and stand up for democracy and freedom around the world. >> definitely a change in tone from the last administration and we will see how it plays out. as we hope that these conversations come back to the table. senator, always good to see you. thank you for coming in. we appreciate your time. >> shannon: outrage after the department of justice releases document

cabinet. some of those top officials taking their oaths of office so far. but jason miller, a top outside adviser to the president, offered this preview on what to expect on tuesday. >> we have to tackle inflation. joe biden left us in a really bad spot, but by getting energy prices down and then also making sure that we stop this wasteful spending, that's going to be a big component. getting this one big, beautiful tax bill done that the house has already made some great steps. we need more money for the border to keep it permanently secure. and then here's the key thing. and you also touched on this, making sure that we continue to bring peace and stability around the world. but we have to do it with respect and strength. those are the two keys that president trump is going to go into. >> now. miller also suggested that the president would talk about artificial intelligence, the prospect of sending americans to mars, as well as energy issues. but all of this comes, of course, fredricka, after that explosive oval office meeting between president trump and