larry: joining us no missouri senator eric schmitt., somehow, they deny everything. where are rumors coming from usaid, either helped them with subscription money that helps them stay in business or some estimates it was not 8 million b 34 million, president trump talked about it saying they were playing politico to toe the party line, point is, what were they doing getting any money? from usaid. >> millions for subscriptions, it very much of a toe the company line, regime narrative all of the time. during censorship enterprise we uncovered in my lawsuit, missouri versus biden, it is federal agencies working with big tech, spreading money to get their narrative. i think that little bit politico thing as crazy as it is you had mid millions of dollar t to go to sex changes in guatemala, this stuff is insane, i love they are running around talking about this, people have been waiting for this reform in government and accou accountability. larry: federal government has not been audited since 1940 or something. the fact that liberal democra

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from a republican perspective, we are joined by missouri senator eric schmitt who sits on the judiciaryk you for being with us. you heard senate democrats make the case the fbi director kash patel nominee is unqualified. they say he is a partisan political actor, or worse, a conspiracy theorist who would turn the fbi into a tool of donald trump's retribution. what about his background, past work, past public comments suggests democrats are wrong? >> he was a prosecutor, public defender, chief of staff of the department of defense, he's held high-level government positions. interestingly, he was a victim himself. the fbi is ripe for reform. it has been weaponized in ways we have never seen before with the biden administration and christopher wray. the fbi went after catholics, parents who show up to school board meetings, the hunter biden laptop story. i think that is why you have seen approval ratings plummet for the fbi because of the political nature of their leadership. a lot of great men and women work for the fbi. but i think kash patel will come in with the experience and reform a

senator eric schmitt said, we spent 20 million on sesame street shows in iraq, 52 million to boost tunisiaillion to tell vietnam to stop burning trash. >> charlie: not even charity and you had charles payne talking about the programs. americans are the most generous on earth, nobody steps up more than american citizens. this is not charity to use tax dollars for this nonsense. >> steve: that whole department agency has been folded into department and state and marco rubio is at the head, we just heard him say they are looking at things that are important and that will continue. the other stuff, maybe iraq can get their own darn sesame street on cable. >> ainsley: hand over to carley for headlines. >> carley: good morning. similar topic of saving money under donald trump, 20,000 federal workers are accepting the buyout offer allowing them to resign and be paid through sepulveda as part of attempt to restructure government. government employees have until thursday to accept the offer. spokespersons union leaders and politicians rejecting the offer are doing a serious disservice. so- so-calle

joining me now missouri senator, eric schmitt. senator, i guess it is 294 staffers out of about 10,000 or 14,000, we lost count at this point. that is from marco rubio's office tonight. that is -- that's got to be the biggest mass firing we have ever heard of. >> it is incredible. i think this is the tip of the iceberg. we are talking about usaid right now. wait till they get the other agencies bloated and unaccounta. this is washington's worst nightmare which is why you see hair on fire moment right now because they have been able to hide behind this sort of secrecy for far too long. you mention some of these programs, they know that the american taxpayer knew what this money was being spent on, they would object. you would have a new tea party movement in this country and it is all coming to light. which is good to. i want to read a couple more things. you mentioned girls centered climate action in brazil, $45 million for dei scholarships in burma. $1.5 billion dei and serbia, $47,000 trans opera in columbia, $42,000 for trance,

geoff: senator eric schmitt of missouri, thank you. >> good to be with you. ♪ amna: the first two weeksf the trump administration have brought dramatic proposals and unprecedented changes in our systems of government. we begin a new series of interviews called on democracy. taking a step back to look at big questions around our laws, institutions, norms, and how they are changing. we begin with barton gellman, a longtime journalist and senior advisor at the brennan center for justice. a nonpartisan think tank at universities school of law. thank you for being with us. i want to begin with the tabletop exercises you and your colleagues ran in may and june, both democratic and republican potential presidencies. on the republican side, what would happen if trump came into office and made good on public promises and pledges he made, how the system of checks and balances would work. how have what you have seen in the last two weeks plus lineup with those exercises? >> we did five different exercises. two were called everything everywhere all at once. those were the ones trump is going throug

according to eric schmitt our senator $20 million to sesame street shows in iraq. >> charles: alternativehas their own government and people. they may not want us pushing lgbtq in their country. all right? we are trying to force our values and sometimes not even our volumes, sometimes it may be the values of special interest using taxpayer money. it has to stop. you have say how do we get almost 40 trillion now in debt, right? trillion dollars a year just to service the debt. this is what is crushing america. if we want to remain the greatest nation in the world we have to take these sort of haircuts. everybody is saying it's going to be hard. it's not going to be hard it. does mean that a lot of these sort of special interest groups are going to take a hit. they are very powerful. they amazing resources. they control a lot. but they have never met the force of a combination of a president trump and elon musk. they have never had that 1-2 combination before. >> ainsley: i understand starving children. >> that's who we are as a nation. we have saved a world on a couple of occasions we rebu

aid staff out of over 10,000 staffers in the agency globally joining me now missouri senator eric schmittsenator, i guess it's about 294 staffers out of about 10 to 14,000. we have lost count at this point. that's from, i guess, marco rubio's office tonight. that is -- that's got to be the biggest mass firing that we have ever heard of. >> it's incredible. i think this is just the tip of the iceberg. we are just talking about uaaid right now. wait until they get to the other agencies bloated and accountable. permanent washington's worst nightmare. which is why you see this hair on fire moment right now. because they have been able to hide behind this, you know, sort of secrecy for far too long. you mentioned some of these programs. they know if the american taxpayer knew what this money was being spent on they would object. you would have a new tea party moment in this country and all coming to light which is a good thing. we want this fight. laura, i have a partial list. i want to read a couple more things. you mentioned the girls senate climate action in girls. 45 million for dei schola

missouri senator eric schmitt and here's north carolina senator thom tillis, after being asked about the authority for eliminating usaid, which congress established and funded. >> we'll look at the. >> legality of it. but the outcome that's that's in the how maybe it's maybe there are some questions about the how, but the what of getting usaid focused on its core originating mission is critically important. i think president trump's had the courage to get out there and explain it. >> beyond spreading some falsehoods about usaid like that. it sent 50 and later claimed $100 million worth of condoms to gaza. the president has done little explanation. in a moment, you'll hear from samantha power, who served as usaid administrator until last month. but first, a quick and troubling late note about elon musk's people. it concerns the department of energy, which is responsible, among other things, for the nation's nuclear weapons. two people knowledgeable with the situation tell cnn that a representative from doge was granted access to doe. doe. i.t. system yesterday. his name is luke ferrit