john thune, defended it. okay. so i gave obviously don bacon, who was critical john thune defended it. and i wanted to give you his reasons. here he is i think. >> they they. >> are clarifying it. >> and i think this is not unusual for an administration to pause funding and to take a hard look. >> and. >> scrub of how. >> these programs. >> how they're being. >> spent and how. >> they interact with a lot of the executive orders that the president signed. >> he's saying this is the norm. it is not unusual. >> it's not unusual. >> i mean, i don't know how to respond. >> to that, right? >> i mean. >> what you see there is. >> you're saying it's not only unusual, it's unprecedented. no. >> never has a history. >> in our 250. >> year history. has a president said. >> stop all. >> foreign. >> aid, stop. >> all spending? >> so john thune is saying this is not unusual. no. >> no, it's not unusual. it is. >> completely unprecedented. it is unconstitutional. >> it's causing. >> an. immense amount. >> of pain. and what. >> john thune is. demonstrating there. is the fact. >> that every. >> maybe d

john thune, defended it. okay. so i gave obviously don bacon, who was critical john thune defended it. and i wanted to give you his reasons. here he is. >> i think they they are clarifying it. and i think this is not unusual for an administration to pause funding and to take a hard look and. scrub of how these programs, how they're being spent and how they interact with a lot of. >> the executive. >> orders that the president signed. >> he's saying this is the norm. it is not unusual. >> not unusual. i mean, i don't know how to respond to that, right? i mean, what you see there is you're. >> saying it's not only unusual. it's unprecedented. >> no. never has a history in our 250 year history. has a president said, stop all foreign aid, stop all spending? so john thune is saying this is not unusual. no, no, it's not unusual. it is completely unprecedented. it is unconstitutional. it's causing an immense amount of pain. and what john thune is demonstrating there is the fact that every maybe don bacon is the exception. you sort of put don bacon up there, but, you know, every. >> don bacon

andrew jackson in 1824 to john yinsy adams. samuel tid don. -- tildon. that led to the legislation you referred. to grover cleveland to benjamin harrison in 188. but as we know, he came back again to the white house on a second try. and then al gore in 2000 to george w. bush and hillary clinton in 2016 to donald j. trump. so when people watching that from outside the united states see this disparity between the two, how do they react? guest: with questions. mostly. if they just don't outright shake their head and say, you guys do it wrong. so it's really tough to explain to folks that, yes, you can have, i mean, theoretically dozens more millions of votes than the other person and ultimately not have the power come january 20. so it is a system that takes some explanation and even when you get down to explaining exactly how it plays out, let alone the steps you just brought up on the screen of how many steps it takes to be sworn in, it really is a difficult system to explain to folks who just say, this is the one national representative we have, shouldn'

andrew jackson in 1824 to john yinsy adams. samuel tid don. -- tildon. that led to the legislation you referred. to grover cleveland to benjamin harrison in 188. but as we know, he came back again to the white house on a second try. and then al gore in 2000 to george w. bush and hillary clinton in 2016 to donald j. trump. so when people watching that from outside the united states see this disparity between the two, how do they react? guest: with questions. mostly. if they just don't outright shake their head and say, you guys do it wrong. so it's really tough to explain to folks that, yes, you can have, i mean, theoretically dozens more millions of votes than the other person and ultimately not have the power come january 20. so it is a system that takes some explanation and even when you get down to explaining exactly how it plays out, let alone the steps you just brought up on the screen of how many steps it takes to be sworn in, it really is a difficult system to explain to folks who just say, this is the one national representative we have, shouldn'

and the john thune agreed but they will wait and see. if it gets bog don >> i still think we're going with one big bill, house will lead this operation. and they have to get a budget through first to open that recon process, you take it as you go along, nobody party has been able to get two reconciliation bills done in one year, since 2005. i was part of that coalition at the time it was hard. and we're in a more divided government this time. and democrat tried this in 2021, they got their first bill threw, they didn't get their next through for m -- 15 months, i don't believe that tax cuts can wait, at end of day i believe it is one big bill, i am sympathetic to the idea, the executive order at beginning on immigration and lng exports will be important, in the meeting yesterday president outlined he has a hundred executive orders coming it should be go the to get agenda through to give them time to get one big beautiful pro-growth tax and economic policy bill through congress. larry: focus -- energy production is key part of mr. trump's policy and mandate

i'm john roberts, come join sandra smith and me at the top of the hour for "america reports" in 9 minutes and 20 seconds. >> former cnn host donand choice words for the hosts of msnbc's "morning joe" after they talked about being civil with president-elect trump. >> if they acquiesce seemingly publicly what does it mean in the broader sense of the structure, of the fabric of our society? you have to indicate to the american people that this is not normal. grining with someone who has those -- you have called a fascist over the last couple of years, and the last months, that's not normal. if someone disrespects my loved one, i don't have to smile in their [edited out] face. and they're going to know it. these are the very same maga people who have called and donald trump has helped promote, calling michelle obama, a man. i'm not smiling in your face if you're calling my sister or my mother or my wife or girlfriend a man. [edited out] you. >> i didn't know he was related. >> okay, so, i know -- this -- you used to watch him. which is funny for me. and i know it's for the entertainment value. talk to us, kayleigh, about the enter

earlier this week, john was tossed in for the 23 with a falsifying records related to a quote talk somebody payments to american address, stormy don, else over alleged a fact, clayton's. now these latest developments are on folding it with just over a week to go before trump is scheduled to be knock your rate at in washington. now as the problem is set to retake the white house in a week and a half. he's got a need to meet us up in arms with his demands that very increase the ministry of budgets to 5 percent of the countries g d, p state you. and for some, the european backlash has to be playing the price tag just simply to speed the dots in the middle east. now, his role has conducted on a type called the capital of yep. and targeting military infrastructure, and that's according to the id. yes. that media report say that about a dozen strikes would carry doubts jointly with us and british forces, catching a central power station. and the city is mains quick during the pro, guys are riley fords, located on yelman's, west and coast have also been on the fire. no casualties have been reported. of the attacks came off to the full. t

john donnelly, american airlines ceo robert isom, metropolitan washington airport authority ceo jack carter, united states senator mark warner, united states senator tim kaine, u.s. representative don beyer, as well as the metropolitan police department, pamela smith, and we are joined by first responders from across the metropolitan washington region. i speak for all of us when i say, and certainly all washingtonians, how very sad we are for american airlines, for the united states department of defense, and for all americans for the loss of life that happened with the collision of these aircraft. we know that includes families from across our region as well as in kansas and across the country. this morning we all share a profound sense of grief. i do want to thank the first responders who acted quickly last night, who ran towards danger, went into a very frigid river, and have worked throughout the night. chief donnelly reported in last night's briefing that we have a strong mutual aid agreement in our region, and those teams have worked together throughout the night in really tough and heartbreaking conditions. we should all thank them for their heroic efforts. so we'll ha sever

john: everybody is ready at arlington national cemetery for the laying of the the wreath, we're just awading don maine if land ya trump's arrival. there's a little bit of breaking news here and that is regarding tiktok. this morning people who went on tiktok were greeted by an announcement that tiktok was, service was suspended. well, now apparently they're back in business because donald trump has indicated that he is going to give tiktok a reprieve. >> so the president through this bipartisan legislation that was passed to force tiktok to take themselves away from sending data back to the chinese communist party -- it's not necessarily a ban, it was an effort to make them divest. they didn't want to divest because it's not about money. they've had offers if people like kevin o'leary, $20 billion cash on the table to buy the app. it's not about making money for them, it's about getting day data. john: [inaudible] >> exactly. however, the $20 the billion cash is an interesting offer. the president has looked at in this through the lens of there's a lot of young americans who want this app the st

jerry seinfeld's unfrosted films, don draper alongside john slattery, who, by the way, every time i see and run into him, we always immediately go and say hello to each other because we vaguely look alike. you do, and people are always sort of like squinting at me, wondering like, is that john slattery? and i'm like, no, i'm probably much older than john slattery is. i wish i was john. >> the silver foxes find each other. absolutely. and by the way, we'll be joining you in that club very soon. >> uh, well, don't rush it. i regret i wish that far. yeah. >> did doing that part. did did. did being don draper in that pop tart movie make you feel like we should do this again? no. >> in a short. in a short answer? no. but it was it was tremendously fun. i had a blast. like, we had such a good time. jerry was such a good sport to invite us all along to do that. and it was. it was very cool. >> hamm, what are you doing tonight? it's like 730 in chicago. i have to assume your night is going to take you to all over town. >> we're heading out to dinner. we're going to my wife and her sister and he

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john ratcliffe, it's set to become the next c i a director. now he will lead an agency which recently declassified documents exposing the human rights abuses car. he died over the past century ortiz don quarter has been looking into all of the agencies, most notorious programs, and it's dark like us, human experiments force drug use abductions and torture. it was all part of m k ultra, the c i is program to master the art of mind control and banks, the newly declassified documents. we know a whole lot more about one of the most twisted periods in the agencies history of the c. i a conducted terrifying experiments using drugs, hypnosis, isolation, sensory deprivation, and other extreme techniques on human subjects. often us citizens who frequently had no idea of what was being done to them or that they were part of a c. i a test over 1200 records have come forward 50 years after new york times journalist seymour hersh got the ball rolling and exposing m. k. ultra is abuses throughout the 19 fifties and sixties agents. abducted people from drug addicts to soldiers, and even children depriving them of sleep, exposing them to radiation, administering electric shocks to them, and forcing

john mcdonald my neighbor saw her shoveling and finished it off. dawn, you got to tape. this i'm not taping myself shoveling. >> ainsley: tell donshoveling show it on the morning show. he said i never shoveled in my life because it doesn't snow on the weekends. >> brian: what they do is when it's a bad snow storm you got to come in the night before so that leaves dawn with just a shovel. a. >> lawrence: do you have any shame about this? any shame? >> brian: no. >> ainsley: no. look. he loves it. >> lawrence: this is why i wanted you to go to the texas ball so you could understand the things that are acceptable and things that are not. >> brian: they don't do much shoveling in texas. >> steve: brian, they shovel something else. >> brian: i know. >> ainsley: i know you own your house. i would rent my house out there for the summer so my daughter could go out there. in the winter time i would rent it for the whole year. and the homeowners, i would drive out there after our show and my driveway was clear. i think they pay someone to do it for me. wasn't that nice of them? that was so nice. you should pay a company. you should pay a

john donnelly, american airlines ceo robert eisen. the washington metropolitan washington airport authority ceo jack carter. united states senator mark warner. united states senator tim kaine, u.s. representative doneyer as well as the chief of the metropolitan police department pamela smith, and we are joined by first responders from across the metropolitan washington region. i speak for all of us when i say, certainly all washingtonians how very sad we are for american airlines, for the united states department of defense, and for all americans for the loss of life that happened with the collision of these aircrafts we know that includes families from across our region as well as as in kansas and across the country we all share a profound sense of grief. i do want to thank the first responders who acted quickly last night, who ran towards danger, went into a very frigid river, and have worked throughout the night. chief donley reported last night's briefing that we have a strong mutual aid agreement in our region and those teams have worked together throughout the night in really tough and heart breaking conditions. we should all thank them for their heroic efforts. so we will have several updat

john donnelly. uh, american airlines ceo robert isom, the mwaa the washington metropolitan washington airports authority ceo jack porter, un united states senator mark warner, united states senator tim kaine, u.s. representative don beyer, as well as the chief of the metropolitan police department pamela smith. uh, and we are joined by first responders from across the metropolitan washington region. i speak for all of us when i say, and certainly all washingtonians, how very sad we are for american airlines, for the united states department of defense, and for all americans, for the loss of life that happened with the collision of these aircrafts. we know that includes families from across our region, as well as in kansas and across the country. this morning, we all share in a profound sense of grief. i do want to thank the first responders who acted quickly last night, who ran towards danger, went into a very frigid river, and have worked throughout the night. uh, chief donnelly reported in last night's last night's briefing that we have a strong mutual aid agreement in our region, and those teams have worked together throughout the night and really tough and heartbreaking conditions, and we should all thank the

donald trump threatened them on the cr, the united states senate saying no to don gaetz, saying no to rick scott, voting in john thune, somebody that donald trump said, do not vote. i'm wondering again, we have no idea where this is going to go, but have we not seen, at least in this interim, have we not seen institutions? and let's let's just say the courts doing what the courts did his first term. so it's not just one person. >> well, but we're giving the nuclear codes to one person in about four hours. yes, we are and we're right. and we have seen four years ago this day, we have seen what happens when that one person declines to accept the results that he doesn't like. all i'm saying is this is this is in the tradition of john adams. when john adams was vice president, he wrote and said, the american presidency, i'm paraphrasing, is central, and it shall be the object of all eyes, the subject of all attention. and so it's a vital role, both constitutionally and culturally, and a dispositive number of american voters have decided to entrust it again to someone who has broken with tradition in ways that many

don nice empire, claims mandate in a sweeping address. just different ways you can interpret the same address. host: john, thank you very much.nauguration from the rotunda there and we would show shots from their throughout the day. now they are awaiting the president. kash patel has spoken to them, there is the fbi nominee. elon musk has been there this afternoon as well speaking and right now nothing is going on, but you will hear the president make another address at capitol one and watch the parade as much as can be done inside and arena. it looks like the motorcade from the capitol, once a president gets in the car again is going to go at least partially down pennsylvania avenue, possibly up seven street here in washington. it's only about a mile from the capital to capitol arena and then about another mile over to the white house. so it's all in a tight area and this is pretty locked down because we thought this was going to be outside, the entire city in this area is locked down. everything around the capitol there is locked down. you don't see anybody walking or milling about. the shot you are seeing is taken from ato

john don re-uortin be much more complex. john don reporting from — be much more complex.ing from jerusalem - be much more complex. john don reporting from jerusalem and - reporting from jerusalem and here at the live pictures. we were talking about how vehicles have to be checked before they are allowed in. you can see the queues of vehicles trying to get in but thousands of people are on foot already and they have been walking along that coast vote for the last six hours or so. we have been speaking to some of them. one ascent to the man currently in central gaza, waiting to get to gaza city and he said he would run to the north like i was in a race, ifi run to the north like i was in a race, if i did not have my pregnant wife with me. he has been describing what he called the scenes ofjoy there. but he says people are expecting to find only destruction and he said we hope that the wearable end and we will be billed everything that has been destroyed. you can see people hugging as they make their way. you will remember at the beginning of the conflict our correspondent w