one of the ways you did that was by finding a bill clinton. >> finding a bill clinton. >> is there aill clinton that you see, or is it more than that? and, you know, one of the things that rahm emanuel, for example, other people are saying is that it's also about showing the people who used to be your voters that you're angry and you get them, and that to have kind of a common fight, which means you need to have a common enemy, for lack of a better way to say it. >> yeah. i think that rahm is right about that. and i think that bill galston and i have spent the last 30 years basically writing the same paper over and over again. okay, which which says to the democrats, you must pay attention to the voters. you must pay attention to our base, which is now deteriorated. and you must watch out for these cultural issues, which block the economic issues. and that's where the democrats have always gotten screwed up. always. our congressional candidates, interestingly enough, don't i mean, we didn't have anybody running for congress on open borders, right? or defund the police. we did a study

charlie: -- a bill clinton was.voters or and he drilled into them. thank you so much for joining us, doug. >> thank you so much, carly. charlie: okay. joey. joey: fetterman for president, i don't know, that doesn't sound terrible. thanks, charlie. turning now to your headlines, the president of the national air traffic controllers' association is sounding the alarm over concerns of staffing shortages in the wake of the devastating mid-air collision washington, d.c.. he says, quote, i'm here to tell you there are not enough traffic controllers, and we absolutely have to the continue addressing it. this comes after news that the reagan national airport controller tower was understaffed at the time of last week's devastating crash. >>> and the department of defense is instituting a new program where where every year a media outlet from print, television and radio will rotate off the pentagon to give other organizes an opportunity. this year "the new york times," npr, nbc news and political -- politico, they're on their

and he apparently would come regularly to meet with bill clinton because. he was one of clinton's confidantes and would be sort of the cabinet. and again, nobody, you know, jumped all over vernon jordan. he was given his space. and i remember seeing him at a restaurant and he had a a peaceful dinner. nobody was running up to him and interrupting him. fortunately. so well again, thank you so much for your attention and for coming tonight. let's all go out and enjoy this very special island at a very special time of the year. i don't know about the rest of you, but this time of the year is actually my favorite time on the vineyard. the autumn when it's less crowded and when the leaves are turning. so enjoy the evening and again, thank you so much for your attention.

bill clinton did not pardon him. i see no evidence that bill clinton had any material ties to the mob. i see no evidence that the bushes did. i see no evidence that jimmy carter or gerald ford or eisenhower did. and that is why i skipped over them, because we're talking about mafia crime, not general crime. yeah, no, i get it. and the other thing is, did you did you nail the idea that sheeran did away with hoffa? i don't i don't believe that. no, you don't. no, not at all. you guys, i think sheeran knew hoffa was involved with hoffa's, but i. i do not. i believe that as my friend dan has said, the irishman was fantastic entertained, meant, but not really a historical document, i don't think. according to a friend of mine, an fbi agent, sheeran never killed anybody. he was a leg breaker, but he needed that. he needed money, and he told a story at the end of his life. and one of the problems with writing about the mob is these guys don't exactly have a wonderful pedigree for keeping detailed records. and so you have it

bill clinton fired almost 400,000 federal workers. not a constitutional crisis, the government had to slim down. bill and newt cut the fat and balanced the budget. and democrats are acting like we are witnessing a. >> let me remind you who set the house on fire. it was you. it feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are going to castrate your constitutional duty and hand it over to someone who is unelected. >> fire elon musk. he took control of our country's financial nuclear codes. >> house republicans have allowed billionaire elon musk and his gang of thieves to enter the u.s. treasury department, fired the people entrusted with secret, private information about americans and give them that access. >> elon musk is destroying our federal government. he feels he bought himself a president. >> now we have donald trump and his copresident elon musk and they are just running a wrecking ball through it. >> jesse: democrats want to audit you for a 600-dollar then mope payment. but when elon audits the government they are ready to st

ronald reagan, bill clinton, george w bush, barack obama — they all faded in their last two years inlaunches a trade war with canada, mexico, china and the european union, the effects on the us economy will start to hit hard just as the midterm elections are due. the president says people should be prepared to put up with a bit of economic pain in order to make america great again, but that's not how these things work. american voters traditionally punish any president who's in charge at a time of economic downturn. so, in november2026, president trump could lose his control over the senate and the house of representatives and turn into a lame duck, unable to get a lot of his remaining measures through. in ottawa, in mexico city and in brussels, officials are telling themselves they've only got to hang on for a year and nine months before things could look rather different. well, that's it from the unspun world team and from me. until we meet again, goodbye. hello there. a rather grotty day for many of us on saturday with low, grey cloud, drizzle, further outbreaks of rain, and some

bill clinton said that. so initially, they got 102,000 people to take the buyout.estimated 172,000 end. it is not unusual to get the hockey stick thing. by the way, this brings us smaller size since john kennedy was president. again, this is a great idea and not the first time a president has done it and already. bill clinton, last time a surplus. >> sandra: this can work and be effective, got it. i know you will have more on the show. meanwhile, this is what we are hearing some in congress including senator warner warning for federal employees that might consider buyouts. listen. >> i've been saying all the federal employees, be aware this offer. i don't believe it has been funded to. i don't believe donald trump has any history of ever paying his bills. and i fear federal employees may be marked later potentially without any compensation. >> sandra: so, that is is a warning. i don't know. obviously, we got 40,000 people to take it. >> i think a bigger warning would it be that job's report comes out. we will get that -- 18,000 jobs more added to the economy that e

. >> bill clinton, al gore set up a commission on government efficiency, that failed. and doij doge is not going to fail, they are moving a lot of people's cheese here in the capitol. and that -- when you hear this squawking, then, some stastatustatus quo interest is not happy, i will tell you at the treasury, our payment system is not touched. everything we process 1.3 billion via payments a year. there is a study being done, can we have more accountability, more accuracy and traceability that money is going where it is, as far as stop that is upstream at department level. larry: well, essentially you you say you are con cooperates on government down sizing with elon musk and doge. >> i am saying, our motto in treasury to move th deliberately and fix things. larry: i like, that secretary treasury scott bessent thank you, we appreciate your time. >> thank you, larry. larry: best of luck, coming up president trump signed an executive order to keep biological men out of women's sports. we'll talk about it with alabama senator tommy tuberville when kudlow returns, thank y

bill clinton cut 273,000 government jobs and lindsey graham knows how important it to get going on this and we talked about it thursday and a quick path forward for the house and we want to make sure that we get out there and lead like we're supposed to be, like the american people said on president's trump's agenda. mike: you have a historically slim majority. so what's your pitch to rank and file members to get on board? >> well, if we do one big beautiful bill as we're pushing forward to do then not everybody is going to get everything they want. this isn't a 30 vote majority like we saw back in the '90s or even early 2000's this is one or two on any given day. we're working hard and had all different sides trying to push forward. we know how complicated it is to balance the budget as president trump alluded to. i can tell you right now the difference between this administration and the previous administration, president trump has every i think tension of shrinking the size of government. we're seeing that with doge and with the others that he's wanting to curtail, cut or combine. in

this conflict that i happen to be at the camp david summit. 24 years ago, which 5 to 1000 where bill clinton, you guys for our fund, a new brock. russel with the 5 core issues. yours some border security refugees. and it won't cost claims. what you need is leaders me on these really empowers to the inside who are masters or their politics, that prisoners of variety allergies. leaders were willing to understand that a successful negotiation requires not a symmetry of power, but a balance of interest either is or a pair to risk. you don't have them. and after you do okay, we'll be having this conversation again next year. i'm. i'm sad to say there and david miller will have to leave it there. but thanks so much east middle east, expert and negotiator. thanks talking to us. thank you. a sweden this morning. the victims of its deadliest ever mash shooting. a gunman opened fire tuesday at an adult education center and the city of edinburgh killing at least 10 people. residents, swedish officials, and members of royal family, attended a memorial service wednesday at a nearby church. prime minister

bill clinton and al gore set up a commission on government efficiency: failed. and doge is not going to fail. and they are moving a lot of people's cheese here in the capitol. when you hear this squawking, there's status quo it's not happy. it's going for the treasury and it's the payment system not being touched and gogoing with ability, accuracy and capability and money going where it is and in terms of payments being stopped, that is happening upstream at the department level. larry: all right, well, i just -- essentially you're saying you're cooperating on this government downsizing with elon musk and doge. >> what i'm saying is that at treasury, our motto is to move deliberately to them. larry: okay, treasury secretary scott bessent, thank you for coming on. we appreciate your time very much. best of luck on the new position. coming up, folks, president trump signed an executive order that will keep biological men out of women's sports. we'll talk about it with alabama senator tommy tuberville when kudlow returns. thank you, scott bessent. ♪ i'm thinking...

there is a detention center in guantanamo bay going back to at least the 1990s under bill clinton withg repatriation to their own countries. you don't have to worry about losing control of them or escaping the base as happened in arkansas in 1980 at fort chaffee when bill clinton was the governor and we put the boat lift people there. it is a smart idea to put some migrants pending repatriation in their own countries. he is very pro-american in el salvador and supportive of the united states and willing to take foreign national pending repatriation. we should consider that as well. the unconventional thinking the president has brought back to washington to serve american interests, to get dangerous and violent migrants off our streets and back to their home countries. >> dana: we saw some of that possibly happening in denver. wanted to ask you about army recruiting. an issue that has been a real concern for america. the post from the u.s. army said they have had their most productive december in 15 years by enlisting 346 soldiers daily into the world's greatest army. recruiters have on

in the nineties with bill clinton.former secretary of state who was about to be implemented by al gore. it's been looked at even in the sixties when the program was first launched by jfk. why some of the state department offensive on foreign policy, that will be the case anymore trump gets his way. 310,000 will be folded in. >> this goes back to resistance and it's the same thing happening with our next story. in illinois the governor vowed to resist trump and the doj and trump administration are suing them over there policies. >> the doj and pam bondi are saying not only the state, but the local government too we have the city of chicago and cook county. it's the governor involved and also the mayor brandon johnson and they are suing over there sanctuary city laws because there prohibiting the federal government from going an interesting entertaining someone based on immigration status. they say the local laws are designed to and in fact interfere and discriminate against the federal government's enforcement of federa

origins of this are in the north american free trade agreement, nafta, which was something signed by bill clintonago, which basically eased the movement of goods and services between mexico, canada and the us. and what happened as a result of that is that all the us car companies all moved their factories, and the european ones did too, into mexico, so they could... where it was cheap. fall into disrepair. so he hated nafta. states—mexico—canada agreement. he signed the agreement. ..and so a lot of people are saying that, you know, he puts these tariffs in, then he postpones them. he's in, out, like a hokey cokey of tariffs, and leading some people to suspect that a lot of this is performative. let'sjust look at mexico and canada for the moment. in a month's time, will there be some kind of peace agreement as a concession, then maybe things can resolve themselves. around the world, diageo, the drinks company, and they say, listen, you know, over a third of our sales or canada because it's canadian whisky or it's tequila, and as a result, we cannot tell our investors what our earnings fluid a situ

i hope -- i hope i can come back to the democratic party as i did when bill clinton moved to the centerry much open questions, ainsley. >> ainsley: doug, thank you so much coming on. always great to see you. >> great to see you, thanks. >> ainsley: thank you. 34 minutes after the top of the hour. check in with senior meteorologist janice dean for fox weather forecast. how is it feeling out there? >> janice: i will tell you about that in just a second. >> talk about the forecast first. looking at the southern tier we are setting records, my friend from the southwest across the south and in towards the southeast. temperatures in the 70s and 80's crazy. then we have the potential for ice storm that is happening across the central u.s. over the ohio valley in towards the mid-atlantic and the northeast. i am concerned with measurable ice on the road ways and on the power lines for millions of folks as we get into tomorrow afternoon. keep that in mind. another storm system behind it on the weekend impacting much of the same cities that you see on the map right there. so he wool continue to ke

bill clinton.ident with a surplus, and he was thinking, man, i'm going to have a surplus for the next decade, what do we do with it? even he was shot down. he talked about half of all americans, at that time 73 million people, with no employer-provided pensions whatsoever, iras, 401(k)s. he said we could do something about that, let people invest their own money. he talked about a usa accounts, again, just like president bush later on, nothing really came of it because the political pundits all jumped in the way. but imagine if we all had retirement accounts, it would have been phenomenal. take a look at this. 1999, if we had put money into the market, this is your total return, total return index is around 1400, now it's around 13,286. how about 5,000% up since its inception? just a total return. golly, you could sleep at night with this one. so maybe the administration, this administration, will consider it. soon president trump's pick to run social security should be confirmed. by the way, he's

. >> tony blair, bill clinton. >> tony blair, bill clinton, this idea that, look, there is a middle way there is. i mean, you could sum it up in one word, hope. right? and that's the thing that needs to come back into american politics and not just. >> american politics. i want to ask you about this american politics, the technology part that you were mentioning, right. >> because this i mean, the other huge story this week was about technology. the chinese came out with something called deepseek no deepseek deepseek. >> deepseek dim sum. >> well, they shouldn't have named. >> it so well, they said. a deepseek. okay. >> so deepseek, this is and it is kicking chatgpt's ass. it beat chatgpt as the most downloaded free app in a week. and this was they called it a sputnik moment. now kids, i know you don't know what sputnik. >> is and. >> you weren't born yet. not an excuse. neither was. >> i. and i know what sputnik is. okay? not an excuse. sputnik is. >> at the beginning of the space race. this is the late, late 50s. okay? there were russians. we thought we were going to beat them to the

the significance of good democratic party policy has been demonstrated by bill clinton, jfk, and most importantly fdr. in the book, paul dickinson, the author, explains how fdr established a draft with an 87% approval rating, way before pearl harbor saved the world. today the magnitude of intellectual dishonesty in the democratic party has destroyed fdr's legacy. so, let me provide some evidence of my assertion by mr. hakeem jeffries. when we call january 6, perhaps pull up the clip, a day of infamy, which fdr used to explain the entire pacific fleet to the nation. by the way, mr. jeffries has no support in his own district, new york eight. he actually received fewer votes than the loser in new york 17. host: robert, he was just reelected in november. caller: let me explain. mr. jeffries was in the wall street journal a few days ago, trying to change the rules to fill the seat of miss stuff ionic. mind you, mr. jeffries should resign immediately, as he demonstrates a high level of intellectual dishonesty. host: that's robert in texas. back to the independent line. mark, jefferson, col

and ultimately, as you saw in that clip, that you played, bill clinton vetoed it on the argument thatlicans were taxing, were cutting programs that benefited the middle and working class to fund tax cuts for the rich. it was an extremely powerful argument for him. it turned around his presidency. he went from under 50% in approval to over 50% in approval during that fight, and really never looked back. and that i think in many ways, democrats are banking above all on a fight over priorities. and the question of whether the trump, you know, making the argument that trump ran on solving your problems, but he is really focused on enriching his rich buddies and the tax and spending fight, obviously will be kind of the cornerstone of that. but a lot of what's happening with musk in the federal government could also be kind of a supporting case. part of that case. >> for sure. all right. ron brownstein, thank you so much for spending some time with us this morning. always love having you. >> thanks for having me. >> all right. coming up next here on cnn this morning, president trump's trade

even when bill clinton was investigated and was in fact questioned by justice department prosecutors,didn't try to retaliate while he was in office and order any of them fired, because that's what a banana republic dictator does. that's what donald trump is doing here. it is a dangerous moment. this purge that we're watching happen. >> this is a big conversation. i and i wish i could continue it with you tonight. we've got a lot of breaking news we have to get to. so thank you both for the news and the analysis on this david rohde and joyce vance. we appreciate it. all right. coming up, we're going to get an update on the small plane crash at northeast philadelphia airport. and the fire is still airport. and the fire is still burning as a result o my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis held me back. now with skyrizi, i'm all in with clearer skin. ♪ things are getting clearer ♪ ♪♪ ♪ yeah... i feel free ♪ ♪ to bare my skin yeah that's all me. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ nothing is everything ♪ ♪♪ with skyrizi 3 out of 4 people achieved 90% clearer skin at 4 months. and most people were clearer even at 5 yea

even when bill clinton was investigated and was in fact questioned by justice department prosecutors,l clinton didn't try to retaliate while he was in office and order any of them fired, because that's what a banana republic dictator does. that's what donald trump is doing here. it is a dangerous moment. this purge that we're watching happen. >> this is a big conversation. i and i wish i could continue it with you tonight. we've got a lot of breaking news we have to get to. so thank you both for the news and the analysis on this david rohde and joyce vance. we appreciate it. all right. coming up, we're going to get an update on the small plane crash at northeast philadelphia crash at northeast philadelphia airport. and the fire is still i'll be honest. by the end of the day, my floors...yeesh. but who has the time to clean? that's why i love my swiffer wetjet. it's a quick and easy way to get my floors clean. wetjet absorbs and locks grime deep inside. look at that! swiffer wetjet. senna plant, a natural vegetable senna plant, a natural vegetable laxative ingredient. gentle, by linkin

madeleine albright talked about this and bill clinton and warren christopher talked about this, evenoe biden talked about this. i think putting it under state makes a lot of sense to me to provide the direct supervision and oversight. >> but you know how this department works since you were the chair for so long of the committee overseeing it. when this trump-appointed judge put that federal -- the pause on the putting usaid workers on leave, he wrote in the opinion, no future lawsuit could undo the physical harm that might result if usaid employees are not informed of imminent security threats occurring in the countries to which they have relocated in the course of their service to the united states. he's saying that the messy way this rolled output people in physical risk when they are deployed by our government to countries overseas. did the secretary of state have any idea? >> the secretary of state issued the waivers for pepfar and for humanitarian both food and med sunshine but people living and working in places like syria aren't able to access computer systems and security wa

they didn't really say a lot when bill clinton housed 45,000 there a couple of decades ago.ey didn't say a whole lot. when president clinton or president biden rather allocated a couple of millions to private prison firms to also house illegals at guantanamo bay. so i'm curious to see how they walk this fine line of the american people clearly want a lot of these people out of the country, while also saying that they're pro migrants. >> okay, everybody, thank you so much. we'll be right back. don't go anywhere. >> have i got news for you? is back for another season roy wood jr, amber ruffin and michael ian black are finding the funny in the week's biggest stories. >> to give you all four years of something to talk about. >> if we are live. >> have i got news for you saturday at nine on cnn. >> when you really need to sleep, you reach for the really good stuff. ezequiel ultra helps you sleep better and longer when you need it most. its non-habit forming and powered by the makers of nyquil. ezequiel ultra. when you really, really need to sleep. >> if you have. >> generalized m

they didn't really say a lot when bill clinton housed 45,000 there a couple of decades ago.y didn't say a whole lot. when president clinton or president biden rather allocated a couple of millions to private prison firms to also house illegals at guantanamo bay. so i'm curious to see how they walk this fine line of the american people clearly want a lot of these people out of the country, while also saying that they're pro migrants. >> okay, everybody. thank you so much. we'll be right back. don't go anywhere. >> lockerbie premieres next sunday at 9:00 on cnn. >> yellow didn't. >> pass the. >> tissue test. >> buckle up. >> whoa. >> there's toothpaste white. and there's crest. >> 3-d whitestrips. >> white whitens. >> like a $400. >> professional treatment. >> prepare for nonstop. >> smile. crest. >> 7 million u.s. businesses rely on tiktok to compete. >> within a week of. >> posting, they had over $25,000 in sales. >> i don't have $1. >> million. >> to put towards marketing and branding. tiktok was the way and it saved my company. >> we had a video do really good this week. s

you could impeach bill clinton on a tuesday.wednesday because bill clinton knew he needed your vote on thursday. and that's what was so important about it. so democrats don't make this personal unless they're making it personal about the voter whose life is affected, unless they make it personal about the people we are trying to help, not only for their sake across the world, but for our sake across the world. and i will say, i do think democrats should fight for u.s. aid. i do think it matters if a child starves to death in sudan this week, because something a billionaire is doing in a washington, d.c. bureaucracy, and that doesn't line up with the constitution of the united states, i think that matters. but we don't make it about the billionaire. we make it about what we believe to be unconstitutional, what we believe to be unlawful, and the lives that we're trying to save and american interests that we are trying to uphold. it's so critically important. it's not about them. it's about you, and it's about what's best for you,

punishing is we've got some coolness including george bush, the felt the father included even bill clinton, you know, essential is, have been use against is what i need to call me, can be coughing a to set that up. but the last to administration, particularly binding was the worst administration, which by the shows and not to exercise any pressure whatsoever on these right now we'll see trump. but again, trump is, he's unpredictable days he's and who's kind of, he's the rational. you don't know what goes of his head. it's that is in fact of the drum fucked that and there is a deep states that the, the us interest, inventories and other things at some point, as we see now, trump making these threats, these tactics, migration fact of the file if you want to put it this way, but eventually it's something different if that's something the dna of, of this region cannot accept what trump is proposing. now if it's added line, and if it happens by force, it would open up those books. the u. s. has so many concern, so many open fronts, vh one, and you can be china, be whatever, i mean, name it. i m

i disagree with bill clinton over the line-item veto. said so. tried to become a standing member of congress to bring the lawsuit. queanded george bush sr. on a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. i thought it was unconstitutional. and questioned president obama on different issues along the way. that's your job. it doesn't mean you're disloyal to your president of your own party. it means you're loyal to the constitution of the united states. ms. plaskett: any other questions? yes? reporter: this is for congressman doggett. on the resolution of inquiry. do you expect that to come up for a vote in the committee or do you think it would get punted to the floor? mr. doggett: it could go either way. they are pretty busy writing new tax cuts. for the ultrarich. but when it comes before -- for a vote and from the committee, where we have an opportunity to debate and explore this, whether -- and i doubt this will happen, but whether the initial inquiry we made to the secretary of treasury, to the i.r.s., they can dispense with our need for t

nixon was not there or gipper, ronald reagan never attended one, bill clinton, big sports fan, or georgeack here in america and donald trump got a huge ovation, did not see that great of a game. the same time, when you have 120 million people watching, as a president, that is a layup. that is wrong word here, that is a one-inch touchdown for any politician to make and donald trump is first to do it tells you a lot. >> todd: speaking of the pregame interview, listen to more of trump with bret. >> president trump: we have to come together, but to come together, only one thing will do it, massive success. success will bring the country together, but it is hard. >> todd: to borrow from sports, winning solves a lot of problems. >> joe: yeah, optimism is the key now. if donald trump is successful in his next four years, then the country does come together. cbs poll yesterday showed his approval rating higher than ever. cross-tab is what you have to look at and one was 70% of american people, 7-10 believe donald trump will be successful in terms of keeping his campaign promise kept. that is,a m

bill clinton used it ex extensively.aceful migrants are needing to be housed and we have maximum capability of 30,000 before they are transferred back to their home country. >> lawrence: powerful stuff. we had not heard what was going to happen at guantanamo. he used to be a guard at guantanamo and knows the property. >> steve: he has been. it was interesting to hear him describe how they would use various parts of gitmo, the super lockdown place for the bad guys and other part that i don't think a lot of people have heard it. barnes exactly right. that is one of the critical roles. defense, but communication about what is going to happen. i saw that behind the scenes with the rank and file. h he was explaining what they were going to do. to make them comfortable, he used to be rank and file and inf infantry officer. he would talk to the brass and have closed door meetings, but would tell brass to leave for a second. he would talk with rank and file and he would be comfortable knowing what equipment they need. that was t

see this as one of those moments going back to when you were able with a persuasive president bill clintone a budget? >> it was back on the fact we are the only time in the last 100 years and republican it is it with a democratic president and look at republican house, republican gnat, a republican president and i think, you know, this is a real historic opportunity and one big beautiful bill and moving early and by may or june at latest and you need the economic growth next year and you need a trump boom in order to keep the house in the election for 2026. what's exciting for me is working on what robert f. kennedy jr. called make america healthy again and we have been looking at what john goodman doing for make america honest again. you know, you begin to realize by the way, health is so gigantic and 18% of the economy. if you cut out the crooks and save well over $1 trillion. over the next ten years. and start looking with people say how do you pay for the tax cuts? economic growth pays for a lot but second, by reforming health and by making it possible for doctors and patients to work

larry: this is bill clinton and newt gingrich, 30 years ago. >> i think one reason they are losing theirf permanent washington. they are terrified of what will be exposed, usaid is the tip of the iceberg, a great place to start there is a lot of fraud and apuce, but tip of the iceberg we open books, this important moment for republicans to be on side of good government and be reformers, that is what 2024 cycle is about. larry: transparency, they talk about looking at the fda, federal drug administration or cdc, it least transparent operation in history in earth as we know from the tony fauci days. elon musk is not changes policy, so much as he is trying to reform and improve efficiency, it sounds like a cliche over the years that is trillions. >> this is putting meat on the bones people talk about how the administrative state has gotten out of control, this is who that means, these people are unaccount an they work in agencies you never heard of, if they issue a guidance litter, it could destroy our livelihood, look no further than osha with vaccine mandates, seeing now dollars and cents

rid of usaid which is not going to waste going to the state department which was the push under bill clintonat they want in washington is better control over the spending by usaid what are they spending what is behind the spending the rationale and makes a lot of sense let's rationalize government and get rid of redundancies in government. after all the hard reality where we have 2 trillion-dollar budget deficit we cannot afford to have the deficit. >> you grow american technology and you shrink government, shocking idea. by the way today is national where red, i want to explain to our viewers why we are wearing red today we are supporting the american heart association go red for women movement in the fight against heart disease and stroke in women. cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of women. i lost my grandmother cardiovascular disease and i know you've seen in your family as well. >> a lot of people are surprised to know it's a number one killer of women. we are wearing a red. we will you all day on fox business and fox news, let's move onto the sun another winter storm that

party and less than one-third of voters and real branding party and coming back to senator and bill clinton meeting with immigration and crime and boarder and foreign wars and censorship and they do that, it'll be a long term problem for them. stuart: looks like it. joe concha, you're all right. thanks for joining us. you're just having too good of a time. i know you are. you're enjoying yourself far too much. keep smiling. >> it's a great morning, stu. for more reasons than one. thank you. stuart: thank you. elon musk going after fraudulent treasury payments after department of government efficiency, doge, reportedly gained access to the federal government's payment system. ashley, what is musk saying about this? ashley: yeah, he says that once doge got a look behind the curtain of government spending >> what he found is disturbing, posting on x this, he says the@doge team discovered among other things payment approval officers at treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups. they literally never denied a payment in their entire career.

♪ ♪ >> jesse: before doge there was bill clinton. he cut 400,000 federal jobs. al gore was the executioner. >> this report tells us how to cut waste, cut red tape, streamline the bureaucracy. change procurement rules, change the personnel rules and create a government that works better and costs less. >> the reinventing government report aims to save $108 billion over five years through eliminating scores of wasteful programs and regulations. among the 800 recommendations, limiting 12% of the federal workforce and urging some government agencies like the fbi, bea and bureau about football -- of all tobacco and firearms, closing hundreds of offices outside washington. >> jesse: gore should have fired monica, would've saved everyone a lot of trouble. it wasn't just clinton and gore, the messiah said he was on a mission. >> from the day i took office, one of the commitments that i made to the american people was that we would do a better job here in washington and rooting out wasteful spending. this does mean making some tough choices. it means cutting some program

: i made this point earlier in the program that you know there was a movement, under president bill clinton to get rid of usaid, this was years ago because some ridiculous things spending more than on, then. agency survived that is a bureaucracy angle of this. today transportation seening duffy now defending doge, foreclose sector a hillary clinton slammed after duffy announce dodger can upgraded u.s. aviation system two fatal plane crashes in a week clinton posted they have no relevant experience most earned old enough to rent a car, duffy fired back with all due respect experience washington bureaucrats the reason they are crumbling you need to sit this one out. >> i want to look at what was focus of the department, the main focus back to history was safety, the problem is focusing on as i mentioned environment, evs changing language for social justice, don't focus on systems safety bad things happen i look at this last week you haven't anyone draining swamp more than donald trump in last week when you do that swamp creatures raise headed like hillary clinton push backlash out ask. cheryl

i remember when bill clinton was the president and we had a surplus.ring if the same amount of people work in the government system, being as they do now, because -- host: i do know that there are more people in the federal government today then there was then. there have been more people in the past decade then there was a decade ago. caller: ok, but is it enough to make the deficit go to $35 trillion? it seems like these people are looking at things the wrong way. instead of looking at the departments that's causing the deficit to go up, what about those wars that was started that caused all of the money to have to go to afghanistan and iraq? are people really looking at that? i think people need to wake up, john. thank you. have a great day. host: it is the national debt at about $36.5 billion. the deficit this year will come to about $2 trillion. $36 trillion for the total national debt, the accumulation of deficits and surpluses over the course of the united state'' spending history. eric in wisconsin, independent, good morning. caller: i'm callin

peter: what were you doing prior to 1994 when you were nominated by bill clinton to be a district judge? judge block: i was practicing law in suffolk county. the ed ny includes suffolk county. the primary geographical aspect of the ed ny is brooklyn but nonetheless, suffolk and nassau are part of the ed ny so i was practicing law way out east in suffolk county. i can go into at all, but ultimate i was tapped by senator moynihan, the senators recommend the judges to the president so it really comes from senatorial recommendations, with few exceptions spirit so moynihan in those days -- with few exceptions. so moynihan in those days was highly regarded as a u.s. senator. he was a democrat in maine but in reality, he was just one of the great statesman of our times and he works with republicans, democrats, conservatives, you name it. highly regarded. and he recommended me to the president at that time, clinton. so basically i/o the judge so basically -- so basically i owe my judgeship to senator moynihan. i had a young jr. associate at the time and i would fit the conventional mold of fede

warren christopher, bill clinton's secretary of state.ren christopher put forward a plan to shut down usaid in 1995 and u.s. information agency and form them into a super stat department and al gore killed it during his reforming government plan, and my old boss, senator jesse helms revived it, and passed a law eliminating the first two and putting usaid under secretary of state and why marco rubio has the power to fold into the state. joe biden cosponsored that bill. it was the helms biden bill that gave marco rubio the authority that aid administrators answer to s secretary of state. this is warren christopher's idea executed by jesse helms and joe biden that marco rubio and donald trump are executing and the democrats are having ann an aneurysm. stuart: i didn't know that. thank you, marc. back to the market, dow down 100 and nasdaq eking out small and s&p up 7. ryan payne with us this morning. you're saying, hey, it's the consumer, not ai that's powering the economy. >> yeah, sometimes we forget because we talk about ai every week and

. >> and bill clinton former secretary of treasury accurately predicted inflation spike early in theing ministration said tariffs are bullying strategy does not work overtime on the playground or the international arena the self-inflicted supply shock is a strategic gift to she thinking. just when inflation is sensitive it will risk price increases for oil, food and cars and immediaty to the federal reserve ninja rates interest rates and jobs in the industrial heartland will be lost as american produces cannot compete with the higher input costs canada and mexico lose trust in us and retaliate as their economy suffered. drug risks will increase your skin's outgoing prime minister justin trudeau reacting. >> tariffs against canada will put your jobs at risk. potentially shutting down auto assembly plants and other manufacturing facilities. they will raise costs for you including t food at the grocery store and gas at the pump. >> last night at the hockey game in canada the crowd booed when the american anthem was played. ottawa went on to win the game over the minnesota wild six -- no

somebody posed a similar question to president bill clinton years ago and said "what would you do in iran, nuclear attack on america? he put it's essentially. "the nation of iran as we know it would cease to exist." they got that message. they are a de facto nuclear power. i don't care how penetrative your intel is. this is one of the things that we have to take and move on from there. let's just remember what's going on. the real divide in the middle east is more than just this. that's really the operative thing on the street. whatever reason, left tilts heavily -- and the iranians are at the head of almost all the -- that cause trouble for mike thomas, lebanon, across the middle east. donald trump is putting them back in the box where they belong. he is limiting their ability to project power across that. they wanted it all the way over to lebanon. he is letting them know, as you say, there is a new sheriff in town. not going to put up with it. let's see how they react. over all of this is also the fact that netanyahu wants to hit those facilities like tomorrow. >> i would say one

secretary of state was actually an idea from secretary of state warren christopher under president bill clintongn aid is going to disappear. it's that secretary rubio is going to scrub what is real and what is not. >> i think that's exactly right. i do think that's such an important framing. not so much that foreign aid is bad. foreign aid should serve to uplift countries that need and it restore peace in the world. it shouldn't be about exporting a social agenda. that's so much of what we have seen of the expenditures from usaid. one of the most troubling expenditures from usaid is things like fundamental support to hamas and what the inspector general from afghanistan raised about essentially american tax dollars help reconstitute the taliban in afghanistan. if an organization has accidently funded terrorism, it should be paused. and it should be reconfigured to get out the waste, corruption, and abuse that we have seen from a lot of these programs. >> bret: all right. >> so lawmakers are trying to come up with one big beautiful bill. but it is pretty messy. meredith. this is speaker johnson

budget act, we've been -- only once balanced the budget that was when newt gingrich was speaker and bill clintonjust never worked because we've always done either an omnibus or continuing resolution so you don't go through the process of voting on individual item that's consequence of leadership keeping too close to the vest. rachel: yeah. i guess -- i guess my last question to you jason is, when you were in congress, did you understand what this agency was doing or was it so opaque that even members of congress didn't know? >> i don't think the degree -- doge and donald trump is opened it up like we've never seen before in the way it should be. but we held hearing after hearing on the kabul bank so many there's a billion dollars that went to the bank and direct payments by the hundreds of millions that was going there. we have the inspectors general coming up, they told me behind scene they only thought that one-third of the appropriations that congress is making and putting over there actually got to the finish line. everything else was stolen. put in the cayman islands or dubai somewhere else

he said warren christopher, secretary of state under bill clinton was the first to say these guys arecontrol. let's fold them into the state department. al gore was going to do it but got massive pushback from usaid okay we will fold. senator joni ernst said what are you spending your money on. you look as though you are not going for american causes. you are going for anti-american causes. they threatened her. they told her to back off. as peggy noonan writes she says of all the agencies being battered around this one the first one we'll recall the period in history u.s. agencies for international development some of whose line items spending devoted to cultural imperialism. you have seen the list. usaiddei musical in ireland and everything we just saw. when you look at what they're pushing in the world you think they are not fighting anti-american feelings. they are causing anti-american feelings. >> lawrence: ainsley, i'm stunned that they have allowed the republicans now to be the party of the people. and when i say the people, the american people. if there was an argument to be m

there was another president that wanted to do it named bill clinton, the secretary of state chris wiltoned a couple of agencies at the state department. and marc thiessen rights 15 page single-spaced memo, the state department declared the current organizational structures and activities of the department and other foreign affair agencies increasingly redundant, bloated, and unresponsive to policymakers. not much has changed in 30 years, martha. >> no, warren christopher was on to this and that was back when it was okay to look under the hood of federal spending and often discussed by administrations on both sides. this horse is so far out of the barn. to watch how viciously democrats are trying to maintain -- imagine maxine waters this morning screaming outside of the department of education, which has spent $1 trillion since inception in its mission when it began less to squeeze the gap, the students on the lower end to catch up and be closer to the students on the higher end. does maxine waters care at all a complete can a complete failure. so this is an agency that does not deserve t