larry: kevin hassett, congratulations. >> thank you, larry. larry: all right, coming up next, steve moore, and arts laffer will react to kevin hassett's first interview as necdirector in white house. >> you can catch kudlow monday through friday 4 p.m. here on fabulous fox business. and if you can't get us at 4, for heaven's sake text your favorite 9-year-old and she will show you how to dvr the show, and you will never miss a tax cut or a tariff or a spending increase or whatever. i'm kudlow, we'll be right back. (vo) memory and thinking issues keep piling up? it may seem like normal aging but could be due to a buildup of amyloid plaques in the brain. the sooner you talk to your doctor, the more options you may have. learn more at amyloid.com. larry: here to weigh in on what kevin hassett said, joining us now, art laffer, former ace reagan economist, steve moore, host of moore money. and both of these guys, wrote a book together, the trump economic miracle. i didn't say it was a literary book. steve moore, you heard our friend kevin hassett,

is wall street wrong, kevin hassett? >> look, that's -- everybody has been saying that for the last year and goldman sachs thing that said, you know, harris' policies would be better than trump and more on government spending and going to get inflation and don't let the drill, baby, drill and if you do, as biden did over the last couple of years and kill 130 million chickens, than egg prices go up. the fact is that we're doing micro-things correctly, deregulatory things correctly and getting the macro stuff right too. make no mistake, under joe biden just under 5% of the whole term, about a little bit less than it was under jimmy carter and way more than double what it was under tram. we're 100% on the ball going fr an all above approach and inherited high inflation and 50% higher than it was when we left office and president trump for sure is going go after them and doing it with all the above and looking at everything and he wills inflationary for the prize of eggs and kill 130 million chickens, guys. larry: okay. wall

i heard your comments but when the consensus among the fed and the kevin hassett of 2006 is on the order of 1.9%. mr. hassett: i do not want to take up too much time but for sure if we don't change policy we can expect to stay around 2%. if you look at the blue-chip forecasts, they don't envision the kind of sweeping tax changes that we experienced in a bipartisan fashion in 1986. sen. brown: so that 3% is contingent on getting real tax reform, not just a tax cut. you know that two significant tax cuts went overwhelmingly to the wealthy and there was literally zero private sector net job growth in those eight years so you are arguing that only if we do real tax or firm -- tax reform, not just tax cuts but reform, can we get close to that? mr. hassett: i think that's fair. >> your wonderful family is here and i know you are one of the nicest people i have met coming through and i know that when we met, by the time the meeting was over, my temperature was about to take my head off as i thought about the fact that think tanks that you have been part of, of course, but so many think tanks in

kevin hassett, a senior adviser in the first trump administration will lead national economic counsellutnick will be commerce secretary. these men are familiar to the market and share high finances love of free trade and deregulation. but they may bump into this next bunch — it the subversive outsiders, the america first crowd. trump's once gelled former aide peter navarro is a trade adviser. jonathan greer is due to be us trade rep. he played a key role in imposing tariffs on trimann de wintere's first term. like their boss, these guys love tariffs and protecting us industry, not always to everyone's taste. and then there are the newest faces in trump world. the cool kids, or are they the geeks? the tech brose. elon musk and vivek ramaswamy are notjust running the support department of covenant efficiency, better from the heart of silicon valley and reflect donald trump's frech enthusiasm for the tech sector and crypto. so how are these very different agendas be made into one? in agendas be made into one? i“! automatic echo chamber but actually having different views about what to do

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kevin hassett on the right of your screen, serving matters of economics for the president, intel's e-govre, hoping to become the next rector of national intelligence. graham in new jersey, democrats line. caller: hi, i want to wish everyone mlk day. -- a happy mlk day. i am disappointed the american people desire another four years of trump. i am also disappointed in people not choosing alabama for the college football finals. host: ok. graham there. we have pictures of more of the president's hopeful cabinet. you heard john mcardle say marco rubio expected to vote on his becoming secretary of state expected today. others to follow as well, when the president hopefully will get members of his cabinet appointed by the -- confirmed by the senate. sanya in california, independent line. caller: hi, good morning. i just wanted to remind everyone how we spend our time, what we are watching on the television or what we are spending our money on is just as much of a message sender as any screaming can be. you know, if corporations are going to be running us right now, we can choose to buy local,

our guest is kevin hassett, chairman of the white house council of economic advisers. this is his first appearance at a monitor breakfast so welcome, chairman. first a little bit of background. like yours truly he is a native of the great commonwealth of massachusetts dopey from more rural part, greenfield. >> and it didn't get to vote for either of my home state senators. >> that's terrible. he's a graduate of swarthmore college and earned his phd in economics from university of pennsylvania. before his senate confirmation last september to his current post chairman has it was a resident scholar at the american enterprise institute here in washington. he was professor at columbia, worked at the federal reserve board of governors answer this economic advisers to three presidential candidates, george w. bush, john mccain and mitt romney. his current job, his first in the white house. now for the ground rules. we are on the record here so please no live blogging or tweeting. in short no filing of any kind on the breakfast is underway. there's no embargo in the session en

is already speaking with kevin hassett, who is leading the economic team here at the white house on how we can adjust the egg shortage in this country. as for costs, i laid out the ways president trump has addressed saving costs for the american people over the past week. he looks for to continuing to do that in the days ahead. >> are medicaid portals down in all tates? [captions copyrit national cable satellite corp. 2025] [captioning peormed by the national captioning institute, which is responsib f its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] today kristi nm ll address employees after her senate confiation over the weekend. on a vote of 59-44. remarks, amid increasing attention on psint trump's deportation of undocumented migrants. we will have the secretaries full remarks at 3:00 p.m. eastn c-span. can also watch on the c-span now video app or online at c-span.org. >> c-span. democracy unfiltered. we are funded by these television companies and more, including mediacom. >> nearly 30 years ago mediacom was founded on a powerful idea. bring cutting edge broadband to underserved

that was a great interview with kevin hassett. larry: thank you. liz: president trump is moments away and about to speak in dural, florida, and republican retreat and annual retreat and talk about 100 day agenda and we'll take you live when president trump starts to speak. this hour the senate is meauxing to confirm trump's treasury secretary pick scott bessent and bring you that vote when it happens. plus, this story. >> our job is lethality and military readiness. executed swiftly and without excuse. liz: that was pete hegseth hitting the ground running saying war fighters are ready to go and dropping dei throughout the military. more news coming in from the executive military and retired special forces vet going for them on the u.s. military and what it means for america. plus, this story. >> is that going to be a constant commitment from the u.s. military every single day to take de-portanova tees out? >> yes. >> is this what we'll see every single day? end ending with millions being deported and americans nationwide finally almost feel safe ag

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you've got the veteran, jamesson greer, who's -- jamieson greer, kevin hassett, who's a frequent guests the agencies depending on the issue you're going to have -- liz: well -- >> -- homeland security. so we've got an agenda, and it's going to be really good. the one thing i want everybody to get tracking now on is that in our view, tariffs are tax cuts. tariffs are tax cuts. liz, one of the the great charts the president loves to show is the one that shows tariffs as a percentage of revenue versus income taxes over time. and prior to 1913 and the introduction of the income if tax, tariffs were how we had prosperity ask security in america -- and security in america. hen we went to the income tax -- liz: right, but -- liz: peter -- >> go ahead, go ahead. liz: we don't know what real a ya a story the tariffs these countries might then slap on us. if return, that said, yesterday the president said february 1st we will probably see 25% tariffs on incoming goods from our allies, canada and mexico. if will we see that february 1st? is that a hard date? >> it's the president's decision. but

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you have others that went to take more of a nuanced approach like scott bessent and kevin hassett.valuating potential sale of tiktok's u.s. operations to elon musk. under one scenario being discussed, x with take control of tiktok u.s. and run the businesses together. tiktok calling it or fiction. annmarie: tiktok wants to remain autonomous in the u.s. what is interesting is is bytedance aware that chinese officials are having this conversation and basically handpicking who they deem respectable in their minds to take on this company? there are other people who also are interested in potentially buying tiktok. i would look to the likes of individuals like kevin o'leary. even people like peter thiel. where is he in all of this? where is mark zuckerberg who has made a few trips to have dinner with the president-elect and went on rogan and we need to make sure u.s. tech stays outside the hands of government adversaries? why is the chinese government handpicking who they want to control this company? two, do they get the other them -- algorithm or do they have to develop their own? jon

brooke rollins, who is already speaking with kevin hassett, who's leading the economic team here at the white house, on how we can address the egg shortage in this country. as for costs, i laid out costs. i laid out the plethora of ways that president trump has addressed saving costs for the american people over the past week. he looks forward to continuing doing that in the days ahead. thank you. >> guys. >> one more. >> border question. >> medicaid portals. down in. all 50 states. >> all right. that is the first. >> white house. >> press. >> briefing of the new trump administration. karoline leavitt there. >> and we do want to. >> bring. >> in we have our daniel. dale brian stelter and jeff zeleny with us. but i do want to go to you first, daniel dale. >> to. >> talk about a very big issue that is going to affect a. >> lot of. >> americans. and that is. the recent. >> pause by the white. >> house on these federal grants and loans. let karoline leavitt tried to say repeatedly that she had answered this question, that direct assistance like social security, medicare, food stamps, if you

nominee for the next day's department of agriculture, brooke rollins who is already speaking with kevin hassett is leading the economic team here at the white house how we can trust the egg shortage in this country as for cost i made out, because i laid out the plethora of waste that president trump has addressed saving cost for the american people over the past week. he looks forward to continue to do that in the days ahead. [overlapping speakers] >> art medicaid portals down in all 50 states? >> sandra: that was the first white house press briefing with karoline leavitt at his new administration. lasting most lasting about 15 minutes 15 minutes, taking questions from those outside of the so-called mainstream media promising to bring in less traditional outlets and in fact making news talking about two new seats that would go to those otherwise that would not have had seats in the white house press briefing room. making news on the tariffs no specific debt for tariffs. looking at the national security implications of the seek to mislead a lot of news in that briefing room and this was only the

nominees, including his nominee for the department, brooke rollins, who is already speaking with kevin hassett, who is leading the economic team here at the white house on how we can adjust the egg shortage in this country. as for costs, i laid out the ways president trump has addressed saving costs for the american people over the past week. he looks for to continuing to do that in the days ahead. >> are medicaid portals down in all tates? [captions copyrit national cable satellite corp. 2025] [captioning peormed by the national captioning institute, which is responsib f its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] today kristi nm ll address employees after her senate confiation over the weekend. on a vote of 59-44. remarks, amid increasing attention on psint trump's deportation of undocumented migrants. we will have the secretaries full remarks at 3:00 p.m. eastn c-span. can also watch on the c-span now video app or online at c-span.org. >> c-span. democracy unfiltered. we are funded by these television companies and more, including mediacom. >> nearly 30 years ago mediacom was founde

you see, you know, kevin hassett, very accomplished economist with a bunch of experience.r, a very credible guy. really knows what he's doing. so i think these ceos see an a team put in place on the economy, and they're ready to go. that's what our survey tells us. we invest in founder businesses, these founders and these middle market bids, they're ready to go. they think m&a is going to be on lock this year. they see this regulation suffocation being lifted off the economy, and they see tax policy being more predictable and favorable. >> and teneo, you see ceos putting deals in place, not just talking about it. >> that's why i say republicans have to deliver. the optimism has to be translated into the policy people are optimistic about taking place, and when you have these narrow margins, we can't factionalize. we've got to stay together to get this stuff done. that's why i think mike johnson is the perfect type of person to deliver this. whatever mike thinks is the best way to go, that's what we have to do. >> trump called a couple of those guys and said, kwoun, they we

kevin hassett is a great economist. think you know, both of these choices are consistent with a strong trade and economic team. host: this is kristin mcdaniel, if you want to see her work, mercator's.org, she serves as a senior research fellow at george mason university's center. miss mcdaniel, thank you for your time. guest: thank you so much. host: the things to watch out for is the day progresses not only in the house and senate as they work on varying pieces of legislation but also former president carter, his body is set to come to washington dc for a series of state related funeral events, currently he lives in state of the carter center expected later on today several events set to take place over the next couple of days and you can see them all play out on c-span. you can always go to our website for more information on the app. you can talk about other matters of public policy and politics in open forum. if you want to spay, democrats 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001. independents, 202-748-8002 we will t