host: matt barnum. guest: yeah, there's a lot to unpack. one thing i would note is i believe president trump is right that the u.s. as a very high spending country in terms of education. also a very wealthy country but we are not ranked quite as low as he is saying. we are typically in the middle of the pack which is nothing to brag about. so i'm not aware of the 40 out of 40. his appointment of linda mcmahon was interesting, she was a cofounder of wwe, world wrestling entertainment and a donor and supporter of trump. her background in education is limited but she trained to become a teacher and served on the connecticut state board of education. he has obviously told her that he wants her to work to dismantle the department that she will likely run if she is confirmed. host: talking about the education department. here are some statistics for you. u.s. pre-k education sysm has more than 49 million students, more than 3 million full-time equivalent teachers in plic elementary and secondary schools. publ

host: matt barnum., there's a lot to unpack. one thing i would note is i believe president trump is right that the u.s. as a very high spending country in terms of education. also a very wealthy country but we are not ranked quite as low as he is saying. we are typically in the middle of the pack which is nothing to brag about. so i'm not aware of the 40 out of 40. his appointment of linda mcmahon was interesting, she was a cofounder of wwe, world wrestling entertainment and a donor and supporter of trump. her background in education is limited but she trained to become a teacher and served on the connecticut state board of education. he has obviously told her that he wants her to work to dismantle the department that she will likely run if she is confirmed. host: talking about the education department. here are some statistics for you. u.s. pre-k ecation system has more than 49 million students, more than 3 million full-time equivalent teachers in public elementary and secondary schools. public school

host: matt barnum, thank you sir. guest: thanks for having me. host: the house is about to gavel in this morning we will bring you up to capitol hill live gavel-to-gavel coverage here on c-span. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2025] [captioning made possible by th, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c., february 6, 2025. i hereby appoint the honorable mary e. miller to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, mike johnson, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of ja