larry: i think, just, stay with the crapo point, he is a smart guy. you know him well and i do. there will be new tax cuts that is a different matter, new tax cuts, they should be scored dynamically for growth and revenues. that does not qualify, the existing tax cuts, the first of all corporate tax is permanent but individual tax cuts and alternative m minimum tax and child credit should not be scored against this will be current policy law forever expeffer like spending on welfare and food stamps and medicare and social security, i think that crapo's logic is brilliant, someone should stand up for him, there are too many republicans c cower under phony scoring of congressional think about office and g.o.p. makes decisions in senate that we come to regret later on, you don't have to do it that way. >> i tell you, we have a discussion about that topic this morning. i and others 1ur7 supported crapo in using current policy as baseline, you look at scoring historically the way that congressional think about office scored in the -- think about of budget office scored in past they h

larry: more on tax cut story, joining us mike crapo, senator crapo welcome back, you have met with scott talked strategy with him. >> i just met with him about 20 minutes ago, yes, i have, he is very engaged, he will be a fabulous secretary of treasury. larry: i agree with that. as someone who is a prime backer my question is, the tax strategy part. i am still worried we had a couple guests on still worried if tax cuts come second you could be playing russian roulette with biggest tax hike in history if it is not done. >> yes, i did not discuss that in detail with him, he has not yet confirmed as member of president's financial team. but the bottom line, i said to you before, i could there is a lot of arguments here in house and senate, i presume that the presidential transition team with president, there are strong positions on both sides. my position that decision will be made by the speaker of the house, majority leader of senate and president. and i as finance committee chairman can go whichever direct they want, we'll be ready to move when they say what the sequencing is. larry: let

moment and we'll hear from house ways and means chair jason smith, senate finance committee chair mike crapo and senators m marsha blackburn. hillary vaughn what's cooking. reporter: well, president-elect trump gave pete hegseth some advice when he picked him as secretary of defense, according to pete hegseth trump told him, you have to be tough as blank. i can be say it on tv, pete is not backing down from this fight, despite unproven accusations swirling related to his drinking and treatment of women, which pete hegseth denies and points out are from anonymous sources he so capitol hill to make case face to face with every senator he is call kawhid for the job. >> -- he is qualified for the job. >> i spoke with president-elect trump this morning, he said keep fighting. >> you are in this all the way. >> why would i back down, i will keep fighting. reporter: hegseth fights on there are reports indicating that trump might be mulling a possible plan b if hegseth cannot win enough support sources tell fox trump continuing good good governor ron desantis as a back up, they spoke yesterday about

larry: the crapo point and going for them to be a smart guy and it's a terribly smart guy and you and know him well and new tax cuts and going to score dynamically on the growth and that doesn't qualify it and thanksgiving the existing tax cuts and going for them is permanent. the individual tax cuts and the alternative going for them and that should be scored again and that'll be current policy law forever and ever. just like spending and welfare and food stamps and medicare and self-secure and going for them and mike crapo is going absolutely brilliant. should stand up for him and there's too many republicans tower on them and going for them with phony scoring of the congressional budget office and then the gop makes decisions in the senate that we come to regret later on and that you all come to regret later on. don't have to do it that way. >> something else he said, larry, look at scoring historically is the way to congressional budget office in the past going for static scoring and does not take into account tax cuts wildly off. we cut taxes in 2017 and the result was the next y

anyway, senator mike crapo, great state of idaho. coming up next senator marsha blackburn whose a very strong supporter of our friend pete hegseth. i hope to hear, i want to see good news. hegseth had by the way a great op-ed piece on the "wall street journal." it's running right now on the website. i'm kudlow, we'll have marsha blackburn right away. when a tough cough finds you on the go, a syrup would be... silly! woo! hey! try new robitussin soft chews. packed with the power of robitussin... in every bite. easy to take cough relief, anywhere. chew on relief, chew on a ♪ robitussin ♪ larry: senator marsha blackburn coming on the show, a strong supporter of pete hegseth. senator blackburn, i'm truly sincerely hope that that is the case, and you know, president trump, i think gave him a vote of confidence to keep going, keep fighting and ma'am, you may have seen pete filed an op-ed piece this afternoon, 12:12 this afternoon in the "wall street journal." how do you read it, senator, right now? >> i think pete hegseth is doing a terrif

affirmative-vote threshold for the adoption of the amendments, that upon disposition of the crapo amendment, senator lee be recognized to make a bucket point -- budget point of order. upon disposition of the point of order, the pending amendments and motion be withdrawn, h.r. 82 be considered read a third time and the senate vote on pass annual of the bill with 60 affirmative votes required for passage. following that, the disposition -- following -- further, that following the disposition of h.r. 82, the senate proceed to the consideration of h.r. 10545, that there be up to 30 minutes of debate on the bill equally divided and that upon the use or yielding back of the time, the senate vote on passage of the bill with 60 affirmative votes required for passage and with no amendments or motions in order in the bill. further, that following the disposition of h.r. 10545, the senate resume executive session to consider the following nominations en bloc, calendars 851, 853, 854, 857, that the senate vote on the nominations en bloc without intervening action or debate, that the motions to reconsid

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crapo: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i expect that sometime this evening the senate will move to consideration of the social security fairness act which would repeal two social security provisions. the windfall elimination provision, pronounced wep, and the government pension offset, gop. i agree with my colleagues that the wep and gop should be im improvised so police officers and teachers and others receive fairness under social security. the finance committee did not have the opportunity to exam the wep and the gop and that would be fair to all social security beneficiaries and not hurt the social security's long-term solvency. in its current form, the social security fairness act would cost nearly $200 billion over the next ten years and exhaust the balance of the old age and survivor's insurance trust fund roughly six months earlier for all social security beneficiaries. the share of oasi benefits that could be paid when the trust fund is exhausted would be smaller under this bill than under current law.

crapo. mr. cruz. mr. daines. ms. duckworth. mr. durbin. ms. ernst. mr. fetterman. mrs. fischer. gillibrand. mr. graham. mr. grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr. hawley. mr. heinrich. mr. helmy. mr. hickenlooper. ms. hirono. mr. hoeven. mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. mr. kaine. we look so much alike. with a senator you? >> yes. >> i rise to object. i will not let this man go quietly into the night. i would ask unanimous consent to force him to stay in the senate, but like all my unanimous consent request over the last ten years none of them have ever passed. [laughing] >> case in point. i didn't necessarily expect to speak but i found myself sitting there getting sad and angry that we are losing mitt romney. first of all because we have obviously to the naked eye so much in common. i am black, and mitt romney is black and adjacent. mitt romney is a of great personal net worth, and on the man of great personal net girth. but the. reality is, the more i served with mitt romney, the more i found myself hoping to have more in common with him. i watched somebody from the seat for yea

crapo. mr. cruz. mr. daines. >> okay, good evening everybody, thank you for coming. so i'm so proud and glad to be joined by many of my judiciary committee colleagues led by chair durbin . i know a lot is happening in the capital today and tonight. but we want to marka historic moment here in the senate . today we confirm the 235th judge more than any majority has confirmed in decades. this is historic. it will have huge and positive implications for the american people for generations to come. now, with the nation's newest 235th judge we've confirmed more judges under pres. biden and any administration in this century, more judges than any administration going back decades and listen to this, one out of every four active judges on the bench has been appointed by this majority . one out of every four. we have some of the most qualified and historic nominees ever confirmed in a four-year span. one out of every four judges on the bench is amazing. i want to thank all the senators who worked hard in support of these nominees. it wasn't easy, their diligence, stick to it

shifting a bit, i have been on the phone myself, jason smith said he could write a bill, and make crapotable and make tax cuts retro active. >> i love july 4 and i love you. we're harnessing breakthrough innovations to increase production in the u.s. gulf of mexico. our latest deepwater development, anchor, produces previously inaccessible oil and natural gas, allowing us to deliver the energy we all need today so everyone can follow their own road. that's energy in progress. it's time to grow your business. time to get customers. time to make your future, now. create a website in minutes. how? godaddy. coding... nah. but all that writing? nope. ai, done, built, up and running. you have what it takes. now take it to the next level. create a beautiful website in minutes with godaddy. let's get to work start for free at godaddy.com larry: that's it for kudlow, thanks for watching, folks. they could see what was coming. and what was coming was the jet age. an earth shattering roar. these airplanes were going to be loud. and a groundbreaking design. bold, and modern and innovative. an excit

cuts having a deficit impact that is malarkey, that is absolute malarkey and the cedthe idaho senator crapo is right. >> you know, larry, you are right, i just love being on with you and grover and steve, and i wish that steve forbes were here too we would have the whole gaining together. you are right a tax cuts and jobs act pay for itself in first two years and increase in total federal revenues from prior two year was higher than prior two years to the two years prior to that. now we get the corporate tax revenues are up, this is is amazing they really work, people don't waste their time on high taxes, they just wait, when the break comes they take off. and also the poverty levels were lower, and economy did well, it was a win-win-win across the board, bringing it down to 15% and doing what steve and grover suggested is great. larry: the thing i like most about this segment, that grover norquist is c coming to us in argentina. >> i was there two weeks ago. with malay two weeks ago, 2 hours with him. larry: but you wouldn't come on the show, you were down there and you wouldn't come on. g

i've been on the phone myself but jason smith said he can write a bill and mike crapo can write a billt saying we can push the timetable, newt, and you know what you could make the tax cuts retroactive to get an even bigger blue collar boom, so nothing wrong with july 4. i love july 4 and i love you. i just want to do it sooner. hey, jackie! (♪) evan, my guy! you're helping them with savings, right? (♪) i wish i had someone like evan when i started. somebody just got their first debit card! ice cream on you? ooo, tacos! i got you. wait hold on, don't you owe me money? what?! your money is a part of your community, so your bank should be too. like, chase! when a tough cough finds you on the go, a syrup would be... silly! woo! hey! try new robitussin soft chews. packed with the power of robitussin... in every bite. easy to take cough relief, anywhere. chew on relief, chew on a ♪ robitussin ♪ confident. measured. ready. the markets, like life, will turn and challenge us. but when emotions run high, we stay grounded. with the hcm buyline, we work to empower investors, in navigating market

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and it is just striking, the difference between what senator crapo said and what we are seeing in south korea. what we are seeing in south korea, members of the president's own party voting to protect the institutional prerogatives of the legislature, is that the south koreans are modeling the checks and balances that the american founders built into the u.s. constitution as a check against tyranny. and i think that, you know, in recent years, the u.s. has been essentially exporting forms of illiberal, nondemocratic behavior. you see in brazil, where jair bolsonaro essentially instigated a january 8th rising up against their buildings, which very much mimics that january 6th here in the united states, after donald trump was recently elected here, bolsonaro has talked about how he could follow trump's path back to power. we have seemed to export and antidemocratic ideas when we are the ones that used to export pro-democracy ideas. and for south korea, maybe we can get into the business now of importing reminders of checks and balances into democracy. >> and you have covered a number of c

crapo. mr. cruz. mr. daines. ms. duckworth. mr. durbin. ms. ernst. mr. fetterman. the clerk: mrs.cher. mrs. gillibrand. mr. graham. mr. grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr. hawley. mr. heinrich. mr. helmy. mr. hickenlooper. ms. hirono. mr. hoeven. mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. king. ms. klobuchar. mr. lankford. mr. lee. mr. lujan. ms. lummis. mr. manchin. mr. markey. mr. marshall. mr. mcconnell. mr. merkley. mr. moran. mr. mullin. ms. murkowski. mr. murphy. mrs. murray. mr. ossoff. mr. padilla. mr. paul. mr. peters. mr. reed. mr. ricketts. mr. risch. mr. romney. ms. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. rubio. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen. ms. sinema. ms. smith. ms. stabenow. mr. sullivan. mr. tester. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. vance. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young. the clerk: senators voting in the affirmative -- bennet, blumenthal, booker, brown, butler, duckworth, durbin,

mike crapo is doing work as incoming finance chair. but it is complicated and it is difficult.ve to get it done because we cannot afford to have a four or 5 trillion-dol $5 trillion tr the next 10 years to hit the american people they need just the opposite. they need the good work president trump there with tax reform in 2017, back in renewed this year. jacqui: senator thom tells thank you for your time free thank you for being with us this morning. >> thank you. jacqui: reports of drones in the sky across the east coast prompt more questions than answers about the flying mystery objects. house ranking member jim himes it joins me next to discuss the search for answers. (tony hawk) i still love to surf, snowboard, and of course, skate, so i take qunol magnesium to support my muscle and bone health. qunol's high-absorption magnesium glycinate helps me get the full benefits of magnesium. qunol. the brand i trust. jacqui: mysterious drones over new jersey are sparking concerns as officials and residents question where they are from. in a moment connecticut congressman jim himes w

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crapo. mr. cruz. mr. daines. ms. duckworth. mr. durbin. ms. ernst. mr. fetterman. mrs. fischer. mrs. gillibrand. mr. graham. mr. grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr. hawley. mr. heinrich. mr. hickenlooper. ms. hirono. mr. hoeven. mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. kim. mr. king. ms. klobuchar. mr. lankford. mr. lee. mr. lujan. ms. lummis. mr. manchin. mr. markey. mr. marshall. mr. marshall. the economy is strong overall and has made significant progress toward our goals over the past two years. the labor market has cooled from if its formerly overheated state and remains solid. inflation hasmr moved much closr to our 2% longer-run goal. we're committed to the maintaining our economy's strength by supporting maximum employment and returning inflation to our 2% goal. the that end today, the federal open market committee decided to take another step in reducing the degree of policy restraint by lowering our policy interest rate by a quarter percentage point. we also decided to continue to reduce our security holdings. i'll have more to say about

now, there are others, like senator mike crapo, who is a republican who will lead the finance committee in the new year. he said. it's really up to the president to decide whether or not he needs those fbi checks. but obviously, senators have a lot of questions on some of these nominees and their backgrounds and as thune said, the fbi background checks are traditionally the process to get that information. the most quickly to lawmakers jon. >> yeah, a lot of lawmakers have relied on it for a very long time. lauren fox thank you very much, kate. >> coming up for us, one of president biden's last international trips overshadowed by his decision to pardon his son. there's new reaction coming in this morning. we'll bring that to you. and also there's new information in this case of the hawaii woman who went missing after her flight landed in los angeles remember, her aunt came on to plead for anyone's help in trying to find her. well, police now say they have evidence that she's now left for mexico. police also say a shoplifter picked the worst possible time to go to work. if you will, when

now, other republicans, including mike crapo a republican from idaho, made clear that he's going to rely on the president to make his decisions about whether or not these nominees need to go through an fbi background check. i will tell you this, kate, if these nominees do not go through that normal and standard process, democrats are going to be calling foul. time and time again, that is going to be part of the strategy moving forward. they're just going to be reminding everyone at home this is not the normal course of business. and again, for some republicans who might have questions, those fbi background checks could go a long way to assuage concerns. >> kate surely could. lauren, thank you so much for pulling that together. let's see what happens today. and let's start right there. joining me right now is cnn political commentator and republican strategist shermichael singleton and christine quinn, executive committee chair of the new york state democratic committee. guys, let's start with that. i think i think believe i've asked this question a couple of times from to from official w

my partners are senator crapo, senator cramer, senator king. we've all worked on this bill together. and the boil is very simple -- and the bill is very simple. it just allows a more realistic budget window for preventive health care, and it's something we have been talking about for a long time, so that we don't get trapped with high upfront costs that have large savings and we never get to the savings because cbo cannot score it under the current budget rules. the challenges that senator grassley is raising are not in this bill. we've worked very closely with the budget people to make sure that this bill does not contain the concerns that senator grassley is raising. the senator might be raising very legitimate concerns, but it's not this legislation that's causing it. this legislation only allows us to be able to implement in a more realistic way preventive health care services with legitimate cost estimates and offsets so that we can get the savings from preventive health care and implement preventive health care sooner, saving lives and do

crapo. mr. cruz. mr. daines. ms. duckworth. mr. durbin. ms. ernst. mr. fetterman. mrs. fischer. mrs. gillibrand. mr. graham. the clerk: mr. grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr. hawley. mr. heinrich. mr. helmy. mr. hickenlooper. ms. hirono. mr. hoeven. mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. mr. kaine. the clerk: mr. warner, aye. mrs. fischer, no. the clerk: mr. kaine, mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. king. ms. klobuchar. mr. lankford. mr. lee. mr. lujan. ms. lummis. mr. manchin. mr. markey. mr. marshall. mr. mcconnell. mr. merkley. mr. moran. mr. mullin. ms. murkowski. mr. murphy. mrs. murray. mr. ossoff. mr. padilla. mr. paul. mr. peters. mr. reed. mr. ricketts. mr. risch. mr. romney. ms. rosen. the clerk: mr. rounds. mr. rubio. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen. ms. sinema. ms. smith. ms. stabenow. mr. sullivan. mr. tester. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. vance. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. n.l. the clerk: mr. young. senators

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crapo. mr. cruz. mr. daines. ms. duckworth. mr. durbin. the clerk: ms. ernst. mr. fetterman. mrs. fischer. mrs. gillibrand. mr. graham. mr. grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr. hawley. mr. heinrich. mr. hickenlooper. ms. hirono. mr. hoeven. mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. kim. mr. king. ms. klobuchar. mr. lankford. mr. lee. mr. lujan. i have lots of talk about. first i want to bring up one item. as you know we have been briefing you regularly at their parks mind 900,000 troops deployed this area. might it isl. significant intert we recently learned that those numbers were higher so we were asked to look into it and in fact there approximately 2000 u.s. troops and syria. as i understand it and as it was explained to me these additional forces are considered temporary rotational forces that deploy shifting mission requirements worse the core 900 or on longer term employment. for many of her deployment the numbers of fluctuate from time to time. given that this number is significantly higher than what we have been briefing i wanted to let you kn

crapo. mr. cruz. mr. daines. ms. duckworth. mr. durbin. ms. ernst. mr. fetterman. mrs. fischer. mrs. gillibrand. mr. graham. mr. grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr. hawley. mr. heinrich. mr. helmy. mr. hickenlooper. ms. hirono. mr. hoeven. mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. king. ms. klobuchar. mr. lankford. mr. lee. mr. lujan. the possible use of emergency powers by thee president elect. bicycling team program serves as their senior director. thanks for giving us your time today. >> guest: thanksll had me. >> host: when you the true emergency power a lot of things can emerge. what's the best with understanding what that is to a president? >> guest: that's a great question. emergency powers take different forms in different countries. most countries have provisions in the constitution for emergency regimes where all summer, not all but some of the rights can set aside by the president or the head of the state, prime minister. it's different in this country. we are an outlier. there are no emergency powers granted directly to the president in

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. >> senator crapo i suggested maybe the tax part of the reconciliation -- [inaudible] rather than acouple of a son. how does that fit into objective? >> i think it's two to make different ages. one issue is as senator johnson says we've got to stop this massive tax increases and using policy is a logical way doing that. there's opportunities to simplify the tax code but on top of that everyone we expect significant reductions in cost the government. we don't have a choice. if you look out economy with $28 trillion gdp. we have to refinance a pause trillion dollars in treasury as your post really $2 trillion a year. we've got to get a balanced budget or article to get them when you're? i could. i did as governor. every eye was governor, everybody appear could probably do that. we have to work with our colleagues to get there. >> i have to chime in, sorry. >> what we do is spending policy that ends is we extend that policy based on current policy. it's only tax policy that ends test everything in the way our rules are written favors increasing spending, and this favors tax cuts. we're

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crapo. the clerk: mr. cruz. the clerk: mr. daines. ms. duckworth. mr. durbin. mr. durbin.ete hague says i've known for more than ten years. on capitol hill he's been a leader fighting for fellow veterans in the halls of congress and leading and organization. the thing i am concerned about is we are not deterring the very threats are country peace and 30 that we need to pay attention to. it is a dangerous situation. what they do is prioritize of the ground and deterrence. the way you do that is strength. confirmation process anticipating and confirmation hearings and supreme court justices out with act can be but he and his wife made their financial sacrifice to serve the country and i respect that the allegations against mismanagement people accused him of? >> a lot of this has been anonymous through background checks for the hearing itself. what i learned is there are a lot of people who make anonymous claims but will not be accountable for that. the process to get all the facts out before we make our decisions. >> you think senator considerably people ultimately votes i