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. >> editorial page, jason riley, and i'll read more of it later. mean, he's very conservative trump supporting guy, but he's talking about something that i've. >> been thinking about over the past. >> couple of days, and that is. >> that every. >> administration overreaches and every administration pays for overreaching. and you talk to people in the. trump administration, people around the trump administration, they. >> believe, like. >> everybody who walks through those. >> gates, that. >> this is. >> the end of. >> the end of history. >> the smartest people ever to walk through the gates. and everybody i'm mike and i will not say. >> the administration. >> we said this. >> too. >> but, you know, you think you're the smartest people ever. >> do you not. >> think the people that left with a. >> 22% approval rating at the end of their administration, when they. walk through the gates, also thought they were the. >> smartest people ever? yeah. >> you're not. we've seen this rodeo before, but this is this is jason riley. what? >> he talks about you.

. >> jason riley, the "wall street journal" columnist and senior fellow at the manhattan institute.rprise institute and "u.s.a. today" white house correspondent francesca chambers. we are just not at institute. anyway,. >> fox news institute. >> bret: talk about this hearing today what you took away from it and what his chances are. >> democrats were already pretty opposed to him. you heard what they had to say in those clips. and that's what they have been saying leading into this. they are also pretty convinced that unless bill cassidy or someone else comes out of the woodwork here to vote against him, even with the three republicans, you know, who voted against pete hegseth the other day and, therefore, needed j.d. vance to be a tiebreaker that he would get passed. >> bret: saw online, jason, that there was a lot of fowngz on the spending of pharmaceutical companies, lobbying lawmakers, specifically the senators on this hearing. and you look at the chart, and it's in the hundreds of millions of dollars every year. this is a shakeup move. he's clearly said some things in the past

jason riley "wall street journal" columnist, senior fellow at the manhattan institute. and "u.s.a.spondent francesca chambers. jason, you know, there is this back and forth about how much did it matter that president trump said what he said. this was biden and sullivan and blinken's, you know, framework. but there is a sense that the israelis maybe didn't believe that the biden administration had their back if things went south. >> absolutely, absolutely there is a difference between ending a war and winning a war. one of the concerns here is that israel could end this, but, without defeating hamas completely. under the conditions here, they are going to release release some hostages piecemeal. israel will pull military forces gradually out of gaza. in exchange for that, they are going to also -- israel is also going to release a palestinian prisoners. >> hundreds of whom are serving life sentences there is a fear that they could return to the battlefield, hamas could reconstitute as you mentioned earlier not show and that's real concern. the other thing is the timing of this. thes

jason riley of the wall street journal it may seem on fox news times in her wife naomi who pulled their did not hear from you. but wearing that hat for much of the past 8 years has been an active courage too. i know, i know just because you are here you had your moment in your own communities whether it was online, at the bowling alley, at the restaurant or school were used in it for 1 of the same issues. you had to tell someone you didn't want to be reduced to skin color pretty set i prefer the days and we cannot make it a thing out of that you had to tell somebody that boys cannot become girls and girls cannot become boys. those battles, 1 after the other have been fought in this anti- di momentum has been built of brick by brick thanks to all of you. and you, who listen to donald trump that when a reporter asked him as a presidential debate in 2015 about some of the language he used, responded by saying what i say is what i say. if you don't like it, too bad. that was more than a quick comeback. that was a reminder of what america is. in america with the right of free speech. we have

jason riley of the "wall street journal".eir mixed race daughters from a school in new york and made a point of doing it because that school thought that their mixed race daughters were desperate to talk about their blackness all the time and they found out the hard way those kids really just wanted to learn math. these battles are being won piece by piece, one at a time. and there are so many others. i'm thinking of the 14-year-old girls in wisconsin who had an 18-year-old guy come in there naked into their showers after gym. i'm thinking about the young woman in massachusetts who just wanted to play field hockey and suddenly got all of her teeth knocked out because a boy played for the other team posing as a girl. ho do we know about these stories? because people are outraged. citizens went to their news, principals, girls spoke out one by one and got the ball rolling on change. and change is coming. it used to be an act of civil disobedience, defiance of a registered order that didn't want to hear from you. but wearing tha

as jason riley has written, if accusing israel genocide isn't defamation of the jewish people, i don't know what is. if you were that 18-year-old student, would you believe the vacuous statements that had been put out a couple of days before by the harvard corporation after it decided not to fire claudine gay, harvard's president that, quote, disruptions of the classroom experience will not be tolerated? that was a giant disruption. so, mr. president, i ended that op-ed by saying this. not all university leadership is so craven, morally bankrupt and afraid of the most radical vocal sex of their own student bodies. as a member of the naval academy board, that university couldn't contrast -- the contrast with the naval academy and harvard couldn't be starker on issues like civil discourse, so-called space -- safe spaces, trigger warnings, american history and our unique, and, yes, exceptional place in the world. mr. president, i know we're talking about the icc and we should be, but our universities and our great nation need a huge wake-up call because if we look at anti-semitism at the

riley. leonard has a wide open. jason, great past. his defender fell down. that makes another defender fall. a 54 yard touchdown. we're tied at 24 states under a minute to go same score penn state ball andrew hour makes is costly. mistake. dangerous past intercepted by christian grey and notre dame is in business. set up in penn state territory. eller can't believe it. penn state fans can't believe it. fighting irish are going to take advantage. mitch jeter from 41 yards. a chance to give them the lead with 7 seconds left and it is good. notre dame goes in front. one last chance for penn state desperation. time. they got to i don't think this is worth since the cal stanford play notre dame advances to the national championship game for the first time since 2013. we'll take on the winner of ohio state and texas to play tomorrow. well, in an exciting game in college hoops in santa clara tonight, they were hosting. >> oregon state game wasn't decided until the final seconds of overtime in ot beavers led by one parcel follow takes the inside pass, lays it in off

read you some highlights that congressman jason crow posted on social media about who some of these people are. one of the folks that trump pardoned was riley csapr a. felon who assault add police officer. this is what riley csapr said. there's something satisfying about pepper spraying cops in riot gear and washington from you like a pitch. even though they have facemasks, billy clubs. trumped pardoned that person. also david dempsey who pleaded guilty to two felony counts of assaulting an officer. he swung poles at officers, struck one in the head with a metal crutch, and attacked police with pepper spray and broken pieces of furniture. what the current president did in pardoning these folks was massively disrespectful to law enforcement. i read through all the orders. the list of them that trump ordered. none of them lowered the price of eggs. this doesn't lower the price of eggs and massively disrespectful. >> we'll leave this event here to take you live to the us us house. continue watching this and go to our website c-span.org or our c-span now app. 53 and adoptionf h.res. 53 if ordered.d adoptionf

read you some highlights that congressman jason crow posts on social media about who some of these people are. so one of the folks that trump pardon was rileyper, a felon who assaulted a police officer. this is what riley casper said. "there is definitely something satisfying about pepper spraying cops in riot gear and watching them run from you like a bitch, even though they have face masks, billy clubs, and full body armor." trump pardoned that person. trump also pardoned david dempsey, who pleaded guilty to two felony counts of assaulting an officer. dempsey stomped on police officers' heads, swung poles at officers, struck an officer in the head with a metal crutch, and attacked police with pepper spray and broken pieces of furniture. what the current president did in pardoning these folks who assaulted police officers was massively disrespectful to law enforcement. i read through all the exact orders, the list of them that trump ordered. none of them lowered the price of eggs. this doesn't lower the price of eggs, and it's massively disrespectful. so hopefully, we will not get any more executive orders like this. >> questions on the fr

read you some highlights that congressman jason crow posts on social media about who some of these people are. so one of the folks that trump pardon was riley casper, a felon who assaulted a police officer. this is what riley casper said. "there is definitely something satisfying about pepper spraying cops in riot gear and watching them run from you like a bitch, even though they have face masks, billy clubs, and full body armor." trump pardoned that person. trump also pardoned david dempsey, who pleaded guilty to two felony counts of assaulting an officer. dempsey stomped on police officers' heads, swung poles at officers, struck an officer in the head with a metal crutch, and attacked police with pepper spray and broken pieces of furniture. what the current president did in pardoning these folks who assaulted police officers was massively disrespectful to law enforcement. i read through all the exact orders, the list of them that trump ordered. none of them lowered the price of eggs. this doesn't lower the price of eggs, and it's massively disrespectful. so hopefully, we will not get any more executive orders like this. >> questions on th

we are hashing out with jason smith and with republicans everyday, we have meetings everyday to make sure we do the job. >> carley: it is a big day for legislation, laken rileys up in senate and has to break 60 vote filibuster. do you think it will pass? >> well, looks like we have senate democrats finally coming around. we got rid of chuck schumer as minority leader who is holding up legislation. reintroduce laken riley should have passed last term. now democrats are waking up, 48 democrats voted for it in the house that wouldn't vote for it before. i am hopeful it gets passed. there is red lithuania act that will stop green light law in new york that issues drivers licenses to illegal immigrants and prevents federal law enforcement from working with local police to make sure we keep dangerous criminals out of our states and new york is one of the worst. we had almost 100 people on the terrorist watch list list loot. they get drivers licenses. how do they prove they are eligible? they are driving on the streets and able to travel across state lines, they are danger to our community. this is common sense, we need to stop these things. >> carley: donald trump

trump just signed the laken riley act today, his first legislative victory only in his second week. say their names, democrats. say their names. radio host jasong to respond to all of that and more after this. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ >> this horrific atrocity should never have been allowed to happen, and as president i'm fighting every single day to ensure such a tragedy never happens again. we don't want this to happen. [applause] when you're a small-business owner, your to-do list can be...a lot. ♪♪ super helpful. ♪♪ [ cheering ] what are invoices? progressive makes it easy to see if you can save money with a commercial auto quote online so you can get back to all your other to-dos. absolutely not. get a quote at progressivecommercial.com. when caroline has a cough, she takes robitussin. so she can have those one-on-ones again. hey, jim... can we talk about casual fridays? for sure. what's up? get fast powerful cough relief with robitussin and find your voice. ♪robitussin♪ [ car engine revving ] i love that i can order official state lottery tickets anytime, anywhere with jackpocket. heck yeah i can play the lottery wherever i want. with ja

riley, author of the book sedition hunters and msnbc legal correspondent lisa rubin. ryan, you have been talking to prosecutors who worked these cases. what are they telling you now? >> yeah, i spoke with jasonwho's a prosecutor who has worked these cases for years, you know, going to a federal courtroom where facts and evidence matter, unlike on capitol hill, where you can sort of say whatever you want for whatever political reason you need to whatever, you know, goal you're trying to accomplish, whatever talking point you're trying to say in, in court, the facts and the evidence speak and the facts and the evidence matter. and what jury after jury and after judge after judge found is that there was overwhelming evidence that hundreds of donald trump supporters assaulted law enforcement officers repeatedly and viciously, and they are now all pardoned. that's the clear truth. there is no disputing that no honest person can look at this evidence and dispute it in any way. here's what jason manning had to say. i would have. >> said the same thing that i say to anybody who questions the appropriateness of holding accountable the rioters on january 6th, which is take half an hour and watch body