senators bill hagerty and dan s sullivan will join us. but, congressman greg steube and robert o'brien waiting in the wings to talk about green land going maga. first, max gorden live in malibu, california. in the terrible wildfires. what is the situation, is it getting any better? reporter: well, larry, we have a grisly update. the l.a. county sheriff office confirmed human remains have been found in house that burn the down behind me, sheriff deputies responded last night to a welfare check, the remains were found. if true, this is the first death associated with the palisades fire. just an awful -- a lot of member of media gathered because of this discover, from where we are on pch, you can see the destruction. laying out. burnt palm trees and million dollar homes. once beautiful stretch of roadway now a hell scape to east of us eaton fire bunches, 5 people confirmed dead, deputies there say, that the death toll could ride with eaton fire as this tragedy continues to unfolded across southern california. larry: all right m m max gorden.

dan sullivan mentioned stuff that could be done. what do you think? >> larry h you were in the trump administration back in 2020, president trump signed a emergency order that would have allowed california to address this. gavin newsom, i can't believe he's still in office by the way, gavin newsom decided not to abide by that and not to fill the reservoirs and support the smelt from some part of the pacific ocean and would have gone to the reservoirs and the fire hydrants by the way. gavin newsom decided that was not important and it's a matter of priorities, larry. the democrat's priorities in the far left coast state of california are way out of alignment with what the american public needs. i feel so sorry and my heart and prayers out to the people in southern california and i've spoken to a number of my friends by phone over the past couple of days. it's devastating, but this is something that's made much worse by the fact that politicians in california have made terrible choices prioritizing the environment, prioritizing the far left causes that

let's bring in alaska senator dan sullivan who flew in last night. including -- >> i did.ar. we brought the alaska weather with us. >> john: biden's drilling plan or ban is what he said. "we do not need to choose between protecting the environment and growing our economy are keeping our ocean health equal are coastlines resilient go in the food they produce secure and keeping energy prices low. protecting the coast and ocean has the right thing to do and will help communities in the economy to flourish for generations to come." >> no surprise. from day one, this administration has sought to shut down american energy. i think president biden's legacy is going to be the worst president in american history in terms of american energy. that led what they did, their policies lead to dramatic increases in inflation, weakening america's strength, one of our great strengths as american industry as you know. killing thousands of american jobs. this is no surprise. i was just on the house floor with senators and house colleagues we are very excited about implementing them mandate th

joining us now is one of the senators questioning pete, alaska republican dan sullivan. senator, a lot of these nominations were announced right away after president trump won the election. it has been a little bit of hurry up and wait but now the hearing will begin. what is the tone and tenor you expect pete hegseth to bring to his opening remarks? >> i think he will have a really strong opening statement and it will be focused on what we need right now in america, in our military, at the pentagon. that's a focus on the warrior culture, lethality, reviving our defense industrial base and winning wars. and these are all things, by the way, neglected by four years of joe biden's pentagon where they focused on woke issues. bill, you and i talked about how the department of defense, the department of navy can't build ships anymore. they are focused more on climate change than ship building. that is the change agent that we need. i think his opening statement will be really strong and i'm looking forward to this hearing. it will be important. >> bill: democrats will put up a

what they needed to and one that did it ever thursday and had flexibility and my friend, senator dan sullivan, you need to tune in because he does the alaskan of the week, all i said was, dan, could you move it up about an hour and a half, and he did, and that enabled me to get home late on a thursday instead of a friday. so i was even doing some entrepreneurial work right there, and you can ask anybody in the well right now, we were all wanting to see that happen together, and finally, i tried to bust the dress code here. by not wearing a tie. there was a time or two i barged in here without one, and almost got tackled by senator langford once, but i got in and out. that's one thing i'm not going to change. i keep a tie in the cloak room, and thank you, again, for keeping me dressed correctly when i need to be on the floor on occasions like this. it's been quite a run. it will be bittersweet to leave the place, and thank you all for the enjoyment i've had here. madame president, i yield the floor. ♪♪ >>> democracy, it isn't just an idea. it's a process. a process shaped by leaders, elected t

. >> john: that is what we were talking to dan sullivan, senator from alaska.thought two was the better way to do it and one will take longer. >> he gets three before midterm elections because the reason he has this gift of two bills with republican votes is because the democratic senate and the republican house could not agree on a budget last year. they can pass two and get two bites of apple. why not do a mini reconciliation bill in the first 100 days that delivered some promise to get rid of tax on overtime and pays for it taxing endowments of harvard and columbia? so you have elite universities paying for tax cut for working-class americans. just did that and a couple of other things like immigration stefan there and get that done first 1 100 days. donald trump has momentum in the highest approval rating in seven years and approve of his transition and going in with a head of steam and deliver for millions of americans that you brought into vote for you. and you get momentum to get small and can, deliver for those people and you get an easier time passing

in fact, i was serving as california secretary of state in the year 2020 when i joined senator dan sullivan from alaska at a virtual event hosted by the massachusetts institute of technology focused on the dangers of plastic pollution. each of us sharing our work experience and legislative experience at that point. and as senator sullivan so eloquently articulated, then we knew that the issue truly can be an opportunity for bipartisan cooperation, especially as we support this emerging area of research. and while the study of microplastics is in fact still emerging, one thing we do know beyond a shadow of a doubt is where we can find microplastics because the answer is everywhere. it's all around us. these tiny, sometimes microscopic shards and fragments of plastic, less than five millimeters in length have been found in the clouds above our skies, in the depths of the oceans and literally everywhere in between. now, just last summer, here's another one, i'm not trying to brag too, too much, but i participated in the annual lake tahoe summit, the 27th annual lake tahoe summit where the gove

the republican senators, but you have some who served, so, you know, me and my role -- you have dan sullivane all served and had to uphold standards of conduct in the united states military, who have adhered to the geneva conventions, which hegseth says he wants to do away with or at least allow people not to hear to them anymore and i think those members of the united states senate should stand in their identity as members of the armed services in some cases or retirees and ask him some hard questions about the code they hold themselves to and the cody is seemingly not willing to hold himself to and would not hold other members of the united states military to as well and what the implications would be for our national security. >> as i hear allison talk about a standard that people hold themselves to, i'm reminded how after the election, republicans talked about a mandate from the american people, essentially that they should just rubber- stamp trumps nominees. i wondered, getting what we watched both in terms of the budget fight, the speaker's fight, if you feel that the contours of that