please join me in welcoming administrative linda mcmahon to the national plus,. [applause] -- national press club. >> administrator mcmahon. >> thank you very much. pleasure to be a. what am i going to do with it? >> hopefully that will -- we will see what you do. >> thank you so, so much. what a nice crowd. as we isis this afternoon. and i want to thank the national press club for money here today at a ducey some familiar faces out in the audience. i'm very pleased to see some of you i have seen in a long time. i want to thank c-span and public radio for covering us as well. and i'm just really delighted to be here. those of us who are in public service have the opportunity to meet such a diversity of people come and hear so many interesting stories on a routine basis. that's part of public service that i really like the most. whenever i arrived at it this is what i'm doing my road tours and the owner or owners of this businesses come up to greet me, they take such pride in telling me about their business, how they started, how they have grown and what challenges

steve: linda mcmahon, we thank you for your time. ms. mcmahon: thank you. it's a pleasure. tions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [capong performed by the national captioning institute, which isesnsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org announcer: we continued linda mcho transfixed to be education secretary. in 2019 to talk about the small business administration' priorities which she was leaving at the time from the national press club. this runs an hour. [chatter] >> good afternoon. good afternoon everyone. welcome to the national press club, the world's leading professional organization for journalists. my name is -- and i am an editor with bloomberg news and i am the 111th president of the national press club. [applause] >> thank you. we are so pleased to welcome today's speaker, the head of the u.s. small business administration, linda mcmahon. before we begin i would like to ask you if you haven't already, please turn off all cell phones. if you are tweeting, our handle is press club d.c. and our #for today's event is #nplclive. i wou

small, linda mcmahon. before we begin, i would like to ask you if you have not already, please turn off all cell phones. if you are tweeting, our handle is press club do you see, and the #for today's event is npclive. please hold your applause until everyone has been introduced. starting from your right, we have allison pre-b, owner of queen b designs. hello, allison. we have jonathan's a lot, washington correspondent for new jersey advanced media, former national press club president. we have john, ceo of sayers and associates. we have tamra hinton, senior vice president at story partners, and a member of the national press club headliners team. we have dan friedman, northeast regional correspondent at hearst newspapers washington bureau. those newspapers include the stanford advocate which you may know. we have the chief of staff for the u.s. small business administration. coming from this end, we have the president of the wharton club of washington, d.c. we have christine, television host of "the next w

small business administration, linda mcmahon. thank.well, hello milwaukee and good evening, america. let me take one second to say hello to my fellow delegates from connecticut. my name is linda mcmahon and i am the chair of the america first policy institute. i am perhaps one of the few people who's been to call donald trump a colleague and a boss but he's also a friend. let me share a little story that's probably not the typical donald trump story. i had a meeting scheduled him at mar a lago. and as he welcomed me, his four year old granddaughter ran up to him. he scooped her up with delight and asked her, who's the most beautiful girl in the world. and she said, me. then he asked in, who do you love the most? in the world? and she said, you grandpa. and he kissed on both cheeks. then she whisked off his hat, lost his hair and his smile with the love that only a grandfather could have given. i first met donald trump when i was the ceo of world wrestling entertainment. wow. for fun, he became part of some of the most compelling and hig

linda mcmahon i hope it's going to be or education secretary.east empower the department of education. we can shift funds and block grants back to the state to let them have more control. we can put for instance agencies within the department of education like civil rights, put that back to the department of justice where it ought to be. and i think ultimately deep power and common downsizing the department of education and its impact will go a long way. it totally failed over the course of several years now and to intocongress pushing the dept of education and the secretary of education to get that right but we probably lost educational opportunity for a number of our college students who did not know what they could expect for financial aid. and so they walked away. that cannot take place. there has to be accountability. could you mentioned linda mcmahon donald trump's nominee for education secretary but she's got a pretty good hearing a pretty good a welcome and a in washington thus far. even the "washington post" is kind of given her it's th

school shut downs and mask mandates and covid restrictions, i think that trump will -- putting linda mcmahonnterested in collaborating with teacher union to funnel them pork barrel money to continue to lead or kids to academic mediocrate, another easy fix, don't ask department of education to do a student loan bailout that is illegal that makes wait ess -- waitresses and truck drivers foot will bill. david: that portfolio should never have been removed. it turns into a political tool. right. >> absolutely, reduce the size and scope of the department of education. david: all right, hogan, i am to talk about democrats, they are still in denial, there are a couple of exceptions, john fetterman and a couple others, but de-- for most the stages of grief, this is number one, there are 5 other stages to go through. you change your bad ways, when did you think they will get out of denial stage? >> that is tough. i don't think they feel as though they are to blame for anything, it is their policies that got us hi here, donald trump gave us record sitting success and time, a few short years ago, you d

linda mcmahon will be our future secretary of education which we will be giving back to i said to linda. she is fantastic. and her staff which is been largely hired is fantastic. all of the other leaders will come to me and they are going to sage member used just for fun it's really not fun, it is fact. we have to do some of the best stuff right? they're going to come and say to me sir, sir were winning too much we cannot take it anymore. we have to stop at winning, we can't do it were not used to winning in our country. each 1 of them is going to say every single 1 sir, please please you are destroying our country. our country is not prepared for this. they are not used to winning and i will say no no we are not going to stop winning the people of our country 1 is to keep on winning we are going to lynn nguyen of nyack never ever before that's what we are going to do. were going to be at uncle sam as having a heart attack uncle sam is going wild. they think i pay for these people have no idea who he is and there is abe lincoln thank you honest abe i have no idea i swear who he is. it's

taking a amos" trumps nomination of linda mcmahon may get trumped donor everything from work trumps parties scamming america's students out of their rights to quality education. it was confirmed by the first trump administration to different posts with 53 republican senators, any concern there? >> that is just another vicious lie from the dnc. secretary mcmahon has been an absolute warrior for students and families. for years and years she has an outstanding education leadership background. having served on the state board of education. somewhat built her career on putting students and families first. and does not surprise me is terrified their older model is brought to go away tha the it is unfortunate they are resorted back to such awful mud slinging. doing incredible job for americas. >> a follow confirmation process. thank you for your time and your analysis today. >> thank you so much. so far president trump is setting is sights on mars in the second term. have a new space race is heating up. if i had to start college again from scratch, i probably wouldn't have made it. university of

and a very special woman, linda mcmahon, is going to be our move secretary of education, and we're goingto the states. let the state run education. i said to linda, linda, i'm making you the secretary of education but if you do a great job, you'll put yourself out of a job because you're going to be sending it back to the states and she's fantastic and her staff, which has been largely hired, is fantastic. and all of the other leaders will come to me and they're going to say, do you remember i used to do this for fun? but it's really not fun, it's fact because we have to do -- but they're going to come and say to me, sir, sir, we're winning too much, sir. we can't take it anymore. we have to stop winning, sir. we can't do it. we're not used to winning in our country, and each one of them is going to say, every single one, sir, please, please, you're destroying our country. we're winning too much. our churn isn't prepared for this. they're not used to winning, sir, and i'll say, no, no, linda and everybody, we're not going to stop winning. the people of our country want us to keep on winn

. >> president trump says if his nominee for secretary of education, linda mcmahon is successful. department of education will not exist anymore. republican members of congress think they'll be able to turn all the responsibilities from the department of education over to other agencies or back to the states. advocates say abolishing the department of education would hurt vulnerable students. >> why are you doing it's not about actually improving education. it's not about making america strong. it's actually about taking away fundamental rights. >> the department enforces laws protecting students with disabilities, accounting for almost 8 million students. that's about one in every a public schools. on what would have been the 52nd anniversary of roe versus wade house and republicans are pushing a bill to require health care providers try and save the life of an infant. in the rare case that the baby is born alive during or after an attempted abortion. meanwhile, democrats are stressing it is already illegal to kill a baby that is born alive. >> pelicans are still peddling the lie

president trump says if his nominee for secretary of education, linda mcmahon is successful. >> why the department of education one exist anymore. republican members of congress think they'll be able to turn responsibilities from the department of education over to other agencies or back to the state advocates say abolishing the department of education would hurt vulnerable students. why are you doing it's not about actually improving education. it's not about making america strong. it's actually about taking away fundamental rights. >> the department enforces laws such as protecting students with disabilities, according to 7.5 million students, nearly one every 7 disabled and public school. on what would have been the 52nd anniversary of roe v wade house and senate republicans are. >> pushing a bill to require health care providers to try to save the life of an infant. in the rare case, the baby is born alive during or after an attempted abortion. meanwhile, democrats stress it is already illegal to kill a baby that is born alive. >> republicans are still pedaling. lies about how abort

linda mcmahon who will be at the department of education, kristi noem, department of homeland security. they are walking fast. you are testing me. united nations and she will have her hearing, i believe, next week. the other thing is right before these characters started walking in we have elon musk, of course, a strong character right there at the rally last night and delighted the crowd with his son, x, who is becoming one of america's favorite kids. you had the president of argentina making a lot of changes there as well. geo politics of what the president-elect is going to inherit, karl, are quite strong. general jack keane walked us through one thing that is different from where president trump left office four years ago is how many changes especially the actions and cooperation between china, russia, north korea and iran. >> it is deeply troubling. i think this is the first inaugural where there will be official guests that the president of argentina, prime minister of italy. i'm not aware that was a practice before. we have ambassador but not aware where we have had leaders of f

from linda mcmahon, and howard lutnick, to doug burgum, steven feinberg, jared isaacman, and kelly loefflerionaires on the official cabinet will have a combined net worth of over $13 billion. now that is not including, of course, elon musk, or trump's new billionaire ambassadors. the centi-millionaires, and possible billionaires, depending how you count your wealth, includes scott bessent, dr. oz and chris wright. one thing i guarantee none of those people ever had to buy their own [ bleep ] groceries. [ light laughter ] they are probably the only people in the world who do believe trump invented the word. "you mean those stores that sell all of that loose food? [ light laughter ] i thought those were just poorly lit restaurants." hey, i'm not surprised donald trump is picking billionaires. i'm just surprised that if you are a billionaire, you would say yes to spending the next four years getting yelled at by a fake garbage man. i mean what all in exchange for a tax break that you will never even notice. if i was a billionaire, you know what i would do? nothing. [ light laughter ] i mean, i

education secretary nominee linda mcmahon and her husband were recently sued for failing to act on crediblens of sexual abuse within the world wrestling entertainment organization. and of course the president-elect's initial pick for attorney general, matt gaetz, faces numerous allegations of sex trafficking, a -- sex trafficking a minor and statutory rape. there are civil adjudications of sexual abuse going to the very top of the new administration. the law as it stands today and as we've had it for decades provides for waivers to protect the immigration status of victims of domestic violence who are charged with fighting back against their abuser. well, the proposed bill would retain wavers for victims in the deportability context, it would not allow for wavers or exceptions in the inadmissibility context. i don't know why this asymmetry and discordance were written into this legislation, whether it was deliberate or just accidental, but the upshot is that the entire national movement working to arrest and reduce domestic violence in america is now opposing this bill that claims to be in

linda mcmahon, is going to be our future secretary of education, which we're going to be giving back to the states. let the state run. education. i said to linda, i said, linda, i'm making you the secretary of education. but if you do a great job, you will put yourself out of a job because you're going to be sending it back to the states. and she's fantastic. and her staff, which has been largely hired, is fantastic. and all of the other leaders will come to me and they're going to say, do you remember i used to do this for fun, but it's really not fun. it's stacked because we have to do some of the best stuff, right? but they're going to come and say to me, sir, sir, we're winning too much, sir, we can't take it anymore. we have to stop winning. sir, we can't do it. we're not used to winning in our country, and each one of them is going to say every single one. sir, please, please. you're destroying our country. we're winning too much. our country isn't prepared for this. they're not used to winning, sir. and i'll say no. no, linda and everybody, we're not going to stop winning. the

linda mcmahon. >> going to be secretary of the department of health and human services. those are members of the trump cabinet. kristi noem, the governor of south dakota, nominated to be secretary of the department of homeland security. other members as well. lee zeldin, the former new york congressman, nominated to be administer of the epa. john ratcliffe, nominated to be director of the cia. a lot of people there who are -- kash patel, nominated to be director of the fbi. there is mr. doge himself, vivek ramaswamy, who is going to be on the department of government efficiency. but he is stepping down from that role to run for governor of ohio. we saw tulsi gabbard on the left there, turned republican, nominated to be director of the office of national intelligence. these are members of the president's would- be cabinet. none of them have been confirmed yet. we do expect marco rubio, the senator from florida, to be confirmed overwhelmingly today. there he is on the left, as secretary of state. that is -- if trump gets his druthers and i have no reason to think he won't,

what policy expertise is linda mcmahon have to be the department of education. he ran a huge company. she was the head of the world wrestling federation. that's not javier becerra. that has nothing to do. he became a member of mayor pete. he's a member of congress. he was he was he was a mayor of a city. you know, the idea that you've picked the fifth largest in the state of indiana, where i live, you pick people who are only committed to being loyal to donald trump, which is what's so scary. and people who actually knew that donald trump was a threat to democracy because they said so before, and then they retreated on that when they realized it wasn't political. >> thing is that some of these people might actually very well be loyal to donald trump. it's just that they so happen to work under donald trump. for one of the people that used to work for him. but now don't think that he's qualified to be president. so it's just tough luck if you just ended up in, you know, the the big issue here is that we're morphing. >> in other words, i think the president of the

>> listen, we'll call linda mcmahon. the royal rumble is a very popular series. >> if you know anything about trump, it's not mcmahon. it's obviously about dana white. there you go ufc. thank you so much, everyone. really important conversations and a look ahead ahead. we are going to go back to california to check on that new fire that is raging in northern los angeles. they can't get a break out there. thousands of acres burned, tens of thousands of people evacuated. don't go anywhere. >> kobe. the making of a legend premieres saturday at nine on cnn. >> sounds like you need to. >> vaporize that cold. >> nyquil vapor. >> cool. it's nyquil. >> plus vicks vapors. >> nyquil vapocool the. >> vaporizing, nighttime sniffling, sneezing, coughing. best sleep with the cold medicine. >> gary. use car shopping can't hurt you. >> what if i overpay? >> come out and i'll show you a better way. >> well, show me carfax. >> knowing how a car's accident history impacts price means you don't have to overpay. no fear. just fox. say, show

. >> linda mcmahon has been chosen by president elect trump to be the xtducation secretary.o served in the previous trump administration leading the small business administration. along with her husband vince, she cofounded world wrestling entertainment, known as the wwe,

education secretary nominee linda mcmahon and her husband were recently sued for failing to act on credible allegations of sexual abuse within the world wrestling entertainment organization. and of course the president-elect's initial pick for attorney general, matt gaetz, faces numerous allegations of sex trafficking, a -- sex trafficking a minor and statutory rape. there are civil adjudications of sexual abuse going to the very top of the new administration. the law as it stands today and as we've had it for decades provides for waivers to protect the immigration status of victims of domestic violence who are charged with fighting back against their abuser. well, the proposed bill would retain wavers for victims in the deportability context, it would not allow for wavers or exceptions in the inadmissibility context. i don't know why this asymmetry and discordance were written into this legislation, whether it was deliberate or just accidental, but the upshot is that the entire national movement working to arrest and reduce domestic violence in america is now opposing this bill that claims