. >> roberts for trump and cavanaugh for vance. stuart: okay, and they're all there now. ashley webster joining us from afar. can you hear us? what are you seeing so far? ashley: you know, i've got several emotions. one, relief that we now know who's in charge in the oval office after years of not knowing who's pulling all the springs in there. but also optimism. there's -- we talked about it a lot, but we have a president who's coming in and he's done this before. before covid hit, we had an economy that was at a 50-year high. i think there's a lot of optimism of what he can do and yes, we'll have a lot of hurdles, but also struck and i don't know if you noticed as previous presidents and first ladies were walking in. barack obama by himself. where is michelle obama? i don't believe her office has given a reason why she's not showing up, but it was very telling to me as he walked in by himself. stuart: ashley, thank you. i'm going to take full sound for a moment. let's listen in to what it sounds like inside that building as we wait for the swearing in. ♪ ♪ stuart: close

are democrats trying to cavanaugh pete hegseth of the supreme court justice.h lowry, ed turnovers and of national review and carine hajjar. did i get both names pronouned properly? >> you did. larry: i've been working on this. are they trying to cavanaugh pete seg seth and -- pete hegseth and smear from various former family members. what do you make of this? >> all the types is tricky. there's been less instituteny on this confirmation than justice cavanaugh process but scrutiny nonetheless. the timing of the fbi investigation and the fact that only went to ranking members of the senate armed services committee ahead of the confirmation hearing threw a wrench in all this. if he got up and said i'm a changed man, he addressed all their concerns that day, but maybe he could have gotten this out of the way too . i wonder about the transparency of this going into the investigation. larry: i wonder the accuracy. this is the former sister-in-law but the former wife disagrees with the former sister-in-law. and the former sister-in-law is represented by democratic la

justice cavanaugh: please raise your right hand and repeat after me.david vance, do solemnly swear. >> i, james david vance, do solemnly swear. justice cavanaugh: that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states. >> that i will support and defend the constitution of the united states. justice cavanaugh: against all enemies, foreign and domestic. >> against all enemies, foreign and domestic. >> that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. >> that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. >> i take this obligation freely. >> i take this obligation freely. >> without mental reservation. or purpose of evasion. and that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which i'm about to enter. so help me god. congratulations, mr. vice president. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome chief justice roberts to administer the presidential oath of office. chief justice roberts: please repeat after me. >> i do solemnly swear. that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united s

we appreciate it. >> you're welcome. >> let me go back to jim cavanaugh. one point of information he shared about the bollards there in louisiana in bourbon street. he says they are devices that can go up and down, the barriers there. these particular barriers were lowered during this time because of ongoing construction work. there was a portable police barricade that had been put up in that area. that obviously speaks to someone that may have known this was an area of vulnerability? >> it is a gross failure. when the commanders set up security if you don't have one method, you are the lieutenant in charge to protect us against vehicle attacks, you're the luteiant in charge to protect against bomb attacks, you have to talk to atf. someone has to own it so that when the event is set up, the lieutenant in charge of vehicle attacks says, hey, we don't have obstruction on the east end of bourbon street and he has to be responsible. what no one is responsible and then it doesn't happen. and briefly, building on ken's reporting, you can see in the image of the

justice cavanaugh: congratulations, mr. vice president.e welcome chief justice roberts to administer the presidential oath of office. chief justice roberts: please repeat after me. mr. trump: i swear that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. chief justice roberts: and will to the best of my ability. preserve, project -- protect, and defend the constitution of the united states, so help me god. congratulations, mr. president. [applause] ♪ [applause] ♪ [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] [applause] [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor and pleasure to introduce to you the 40 fifth and 47th president of the united states of america, donald j. trump. [applause] president trump: thank you very much, everybody thank you very much. vice president vance, speaker johnson, senator thune, chief justice roberts, justices of the united states supreme court, president clinton, president bush, president obama, president biden, vice president harris, my fellow citizens, the golden age of america begins rig

are they trying to cavanaugh him and getting through this commit thee and everybody saying he'll passar from various former family members. what do you make of it? >> look, i think all the timing is treky and less scrutiny -- tricky and less scrutiny on the process and scrutiny nonetheless and the timing of fbi investigation and the fact that that only went to the ranking members on the senate armed services excite tee right ahead of confirmation hea hearing and threw a wrench in all this and got up and said i'm a changed man and addressed all their concerns that day, but maybe could have gotten this out of the way too. i wonder about the transparency of this going into the investigation. larry: i wonder the accuracy and former sister-in-law and the former wife disagrees and the former sister-in-law is represented by democratic law. i mean, i don't like to get into this stuff. it's kind of off my beat. but it strikes me as a lot of phony bologna. if the two sisters are in disagreement with each other. huh, really? what's the point of it. >> if you want a true and correct picture of fa

jim cavanaugh, thank you very much. our nbc news law enforcement analyst. it is a grim new year's morning here to begin 2025. in new orleans, as people are focused on the tragedy that has happened. as jim mentioned, some 40 people plowed over by a driver and a truck at a new year's eve celebration just after 3:00 this morning. at least ten people have been killed. dozens of others are in the hospital, including two police officers who were shot when this suspect, believed to be dead, opened fire on police. there is also now an investigation into a homemade bomb in the area. we expect another update from police in just a few hours. and then later tonight, the sugar bowl is set to begin that huge college football game. so the security precautions continue to be the biggest focus here in new orleans. i want to play for you now, what we heard from the superintendent of the new orleans police department, describing the nightmare that her city is going through today. watch. and because of the intentional mindset of this perpetrator who went around our barricades

the tactic drawing a comparison to the confirmation hearing of brett cavanaugh, who faced a similar linecrats. whether it was elizabeth warren or senator mark kelly, a lot of people were going after him on a personal level, prompting senator mark to say this. >> the senator from virginia brings up the fact what if you show up drunk to your job. how many have shown up drunk to vote at night? have any of you guys asked them to step down and resign from their job? don't tell me you haven't seen it because i know you have. how many have gotten a divorce for cheating on their wives? did you ask them to step down. we have all made mistakes. i have made mistakes and jennifer, thank you for loving him through that mistake. the only reason i am here and not imprisonment because my wife loved me. >> he didn't have to bring it up but it was the pot and kettle thing going there. how do you think hegseth did in the overall? >> i think he crushed it. much of the tone of the questioning was the fear of the absurd and it came across as cheesy performance art. con stan lectures and senator tim kaine said

this is what they did to clarence thomas and brett cavanaugh. when they can't argue on policy or substance, when they know that they are wrong with what the american people want, this is what the democrats due. they resort to smear, anonymous allegations, character assassination because they know they can't talk about the disgrace of the afghan withdrawal. they can't talk about the state of our military recruitment. can't build enough planes or ships. we haven't won a war in a long time and our military spending three times more on di initiatives that we were four years ago. they know that on policy the u.s. department of defense is in tatters right now. therefore they couldn't spend two seconds talking about policy we support him and that's why my questions were directed away there wear. i want to remind people what this job is really about and supporting the war fighter and protecting america. >> it was one of the few moments along with some other republicans of substance which was desperately needed. they spend so much time on issues involvin

i want to bring in jim cavanaugh to talk about that.ow you were very vocal earlier talking about whether this could have been prevented. we have eyewitnesses that spoke with our local affiliate that mentioned that the barricades and barriers were actually down on bourbon st. at some point. we know from the first briefing that this driver plowed in and went around the barriers, if there were barriers. what can you tell us given you that you were so vocal in saying when it comes to something like this being prevented, that is something you don't subscribe to. >> i used to tell my people all the time, we won't make the same mistakes. we will make new mistakes. i did not get mad when my agents made new mistakes, but if they made the same mistake over again i was really upset about that. i did not want the same mistake. in the world of terrorism attacks, all police commanders know, they get bulletins from the fbi and homeland security all the time on terrorist attacks around the country. police commanders have to be in tune to that. certainl

in a lot of cases they were trying to cavanaugh him and they didn't like the fbi report and and all the people and democrats are on the report and other witnesses and didn't talk to hem or talking about that person. they want some sort of investigation that proves their narrative and more investigation until it does improve their narrative and the reality is the investigations have proven pete's narrative, these are just anonymous sources, smear campaigns, the democrats latched onto it, frankly they looked very weak today i thought, and i hope that they can make a recovery because at the end of the day, we all have to get together and defend this country as one. larry: democrats have to learn they're not in control of the senate anymore. they're not in control of the white house. they're not in control of the house of representatives, and they are not in control of the policies either. i'm going to come back to that because mr. van orden talked about. one thing, i love this dust on the boots. he's been on the ground, in combat and dust on the boots and there's a wonderful colloquy with

court nominees that got the most visceral attacks but even still with everything that they did for cavanaugh a supreme court justice now. i think that's kind of where we are. i don't think that these attacks work on republican senators. and i think pete hegseth has specifically had the opportunity to sit down with those that were signaling objection and answer questions and make them feel better about his nomination ultimately, i think it is pretty obvious president trump is not going to take a 30 year general been a part behalf he considers to be a problem and make defense secretary and probably not going to take any of the senators who would like to be defense secretary and give it to them either. so what is your better option? i think pete hegseth is incredibly smart, and i think if anything we've learned in the last week, is that we need a better security leadership in this country when it comes to fbi, homeland security department of defense so there's a better argument for all of these people today than there was two weeks ago. and traj that i can that's the case. but i think that he's

versus texas written by justice cavanaugh and joined by eight of nine justices on the court. in rejecting the state's standing argument, the court observed among other things that lawsuitsg alleging insufficient arrest or prosecution run against executive branches exclusive article of authority to enforce immigration law, and includes the discretion to determine enforcement priority in the face of a chronic lack of resources and shifting public safety, public welfare and foreign policy needs and priority. would have the proverse effect and undermining the attention and deportation of the truly most dangerous convicted felons. with the vastly expanded new statutory scope and states to get legal standing on steroids. the government can be sued by a state for not detaining everyone charged with or even arrested for the pettiest of crimes like shoplifting. this bill tries to give state standing to sue for harms as small as $100. dramatically shifting power from the executive branch with support from the federal government tot the state and and dubious by the stream court and like

jim cavanaugh, help me understand how law enforcement assessing what went wrong here.failures that took place and why it is critical to making sure that cities are better protected for plans like these. >> certainly we'll have the internal affairs and the state will look at the events clearly and see why that narrow street of bourbon street, the most iconic street in the city and the state. and one of the most iconic in america was not covered, barricaded and protected. it's a glaring failure. i don't think we need a six month commission to figure it out. i think it's pretty obvious. leaders are incredulous that a driver would drive over a sidewalk. and violates a traffic law and jumps up on the curb. well he had run over a patrolmen if he had to to go on this murderous rampage. the fact that anyone could be surprised by that, it's just shocking to me. certainly that law enforce. professionals wouldn't see that right away. now we're not talking about trying to protect every sidewalk in the city the size of new orleans. that's not possible. but to protect the sidewalk o

take a listen to president mike cavanaugh on the call.us in broadband. >> despite our incumbent. status in broadband. >> and as. >> we faced continued overbuilding. >> fixed wireless. >> expansion and the. >> challenges associated. >> with the end. >> of the acp program. >> as you've. >> already seen. >> in. >> our earnings release. net broadband. >> subscriber additions. >> were -139,000in the fourth quarter. which is disappointing and worse than what we indicated. >> in early december. >> stock went down substantially on those on those comments from cavanaugh. peacock, of course, also did not post particularly strong additions in terms of quarter to quarter and in the year at 36 million, which is where seemingly ended the third quarter as well. so no real growth in subs at peacock, although they did say losses have come in right around a billion. so they seem to be moderating. they're spinning off the cable companies other than bravo into a new company that includes us. they talked a bit about that, and then there's a lot of chatter aro

tell you, this is a personal story, i got a lot of criticism back home for not voting for justice cavanaugh. when people ask me, well, you voted for a lot of political appointees you did not agree with, i said, but none of them had a lifetime appointment. i was not making the decision for today, i was not making it four years from now, i was making it for 30, 40 years. to me, that person has to be above reproach in order for me to give the good housekeeping seal of approval. >> and of course, we could be going through this next year. a pretty good chance donald trump will have one, perhaps two more supreme court nominees in his term in the white house. what about the idea of having term limits or age limits for supreme court justices? >> age varies from person to person. i don't think i am for either term limits nor age limits. the constitution tried to remove the judges from the political pressure of terms or election in either one. i think that has served us pretty well. >> i think if you said 20 years out, that is plenty. you have had your time on the bench. the other thing about the sup

discussing the 2025 outlook straight shooting, cfo jim cavanaugh explained, quote, in consulting, thetion of our backlog levels, record signings in the fourth quarter and our book of business in gen ai support an acceleration in growth to low single digits. end quote. now, it is worth noting next tuesday, ibm hosts an investor day meeting. it's the first since 2021, and this could potentially bring more positive news. now i'm hoping we get a call for durable mid-single digit growth going forward and potentially new buyback program. given how strong the cash flow has gotten, that could boost ibm's earnings per share even further. so let's see what they have to say. but i am pretty i'm pretty sure it's going to be good. now, full disclosure ibm's price to earnings multiple is higher than it's been in a long time. that always worries people. after yesterday's gain, the stock now sells for nearly 24 times this year's earnings and just north of 22 times next year's numbers. a lot of us are used to low teen to even high single digit for this company, but i'd argue that the overall company's

back with us now, we've got ken dilanian, frank figliuzzi, jim cavanaugh, and christopher o'leary. i want to start with you, chris. we were talking just before the press conference about the potential of known associates, a wider network. listening to all of that, what do you think law enforcement is pursuing, how do they find known associates and what do you expect them to find? >> there's two things they're concentrating on likely now, the truck, any information that can be pulled out of that truck, did he leave a cell phone behind that can be exploited. what other digital footprint does he have and who it points him to, and physical locations. the airbnb that he was staying in in new orleans, his previous residence in texas, and trying to illuminate his network, and who else was on the platform that radicalized him, who was susceptible to the radicalization, and who might have mobilized in support of this. the devices he used, he rented the truck and used that as his primary weapon. how did he make these devices? did he have the technical knowledge himself or did something help

i understand we have jim cavanaugh on the phone. jim, are you with us? >> i'm here.n new orleans. talk to us now given the fact that there have been hundreds of law enforcement already there and something that they're very used to given mardi gras celebrations, what is happening at this point in trying to secure the location and find out the most they can about the suspect because at this point, we don't know the whereabouts, if he's in custody, they have not said anything to that effect. >> that's right. we know the attack is morphed into more than just a car in the crowd because the chief of police said that the assailant fired a gun and hit two new orleans police officers who were wounded in the hospital, and they found the home made bomb. police call that an iud, imvised explosive device. it's a home made bomb. we have vehicle attack, a firearms attack, and an explosive attack. the fbi assistant special agent in charge spoke, and declared it to be a terrorist event yet. it may still morph into that. certainly a very planned event. very purposeful event, and, you

. >> remarkable to see ashley cavanaugh and justice kavanaugh having a conversation with mark zuckerbergis what we are seeing now. building relationships. >> the senate is relationship driven because under the rules of the senate to get almost anything done, you need to have somebody from the other side work with you to get things done and over time that builds up linkages that don't go away. >> do you think that donald trump will change or how do you think he will deal with the senate? would he do any actual outreach of the old kind that we used to talk about to the other party or any of that stuff? or less of it because he's been reelected and he has his own plans. >> donald trump is pretty approachable. one of the interesting things i think about president trump is he will respond to you almost exactly the way you approach them. i'm sure he had a great conversation with senator fetterman who went to see him in mar-a-lago even that first long press conference he's already had. that was a relationship where it was an adversarial but the press got a lot of information. i think he will ma

, who i also worked _ brett cavanaugh, who i also worked with him when he was a staff— worked with himident bush. he took a risk of a type because — bush. he took a risk of a type because he was working at facebook and he came in he sat right— facebook and he came in he sat right behind him during his confirmation hearings and did not care — confirmation hearings and did not care that supported his friend _ not care that supported his friend was more important to him _ friend was more important to him then— friend was more important to him then a lot of the lies that were — him then a lot of the lies that were being spun in the media about— were being spun in the media about brett, who then became a supreme — about brett, who then became a supreme courtjustice about brett, who then became a supreme court justice and about brett, who then became a supreme courtjustice and he is doing _ supreme courtjustice and he is doing a — supreme courtjustice and he is doing a greatjob there. but what — doing a greatjob there. but what is _ doing a greatjob there. but what is happening with elon mus