my grandfather represented the rand family. [wolf rand] "we've hired a maritime lawyer in virginia. if he doesn't help us get off the ship, i don't know what's going to become of us."

this is what rand paul said.l see to the very end, thousands of pages long, created by a few people, basically in secret, i see no value to this process, we're ruining the country." larry kudlow do you agree? larry: well, yeah, look. rand paul, on our show is even tougher than that a couple of nights ago. he said the senate republicans have given up the power of the purse and then republican party has emsaculated itself, think about that word, david asman. david: he was tough, yes. larry: and by the way, there's a lot of truth to it, because look, even with this so-called omnibus spending bill, which is a betrayal of the voters who elected a republican house and won't let kevin mccarthy and his new team develop their own budget, so that's another key point, but look, this bill be 36 % above the pre-covid 2019 budget baseline, and what they're doing is democrats are jamming through a lot of covid welfare assistance programs with no work requirements to get them permanently into the baseline as mandatory spending,

robert rand had been working the menendez story hard.phy o jose menendez, but he couldn't complete it without talking to two people jose's sons, lyle and erik the brothers had blown him off for several weeks. but finally, on october 20th 1989, exactly two months after the murders, rand got his shot >> i showed up at the menendez mansion at 3:00 in the afternoon. and -- a young woman in he twenties answered the door and she said, "oh erik and lyle ar out playing tennis th -- they'll be back at som point. >> the woman invited rand in t tour the house >> and immediately in front of me is the room the room where jose and kitt menendez were killed and -- i ha -- i had a chill u my spine i felt creeped out >> he waited they arrived, eventually >> erik and lyle came bouncing in the house wearing tenni whites and looking tan and they were laughing and joking and i'm as -- >> as if nothing had happened >> -- as if nothing ha happened and i'm kind of torn up inside i'm just thinking to myself, " wouldn't be anywhere near this house if my parents h

what do you make of this, this report from the rand corporation? how possible all these describe scenarios? well, i guess they could be possible. it doesn't seem that they, that the rand corporation tried to look at russian objectives and then, you know, link them to russian actions. it really is an american centric type of study that they put together and it feeds, i think, what, what probably americans in the pentagon are talking about. but i would, it doesn't look to be very well informed here. i mean this up until now there's been those little talk in any of the scenario. another mention of negotiations, diplomacy. it's all just sort of military actions. but i mean, i would like to see a talk perhaps is how i mean, how, how good is this rhymed report? i mean, sure. is it credible? is it something that we should be taking seriously? well, i think, i think certainly that it should be read by everyone. i mean, if they published it it's, it's available to look at we should, everyone should look at it and try to understand it. i think it reveals a l

thank god for senator rand paul. really appreciated him as much as i should have until covid and we realized what a principled man he is we're lucky to have him in the senate. what this comes to is we work hard for our money. the people at home watching work hard for their money. then the government just steals it, takes its from us and lights it on fire and keeps asking for more for things that people watching right now see on their screen. you know, millions of dollars for a hampster fight club, over a million to get hampsters, to see them get drunk and that doesn't even cover the hundreds of billions of dollars in interest payments we're paying on all of this debt so it's a really sad reflection of where we are as a country and what little our government actually thinks of us. todd: to that point, if you were one of the millions of americans just trying to afford basic necessities, thanks to biden inflation, and you see these numbers on your screen, money so that parrots can mate, what are you supposed to think? >

right now, yesterday the rand put forward its worst trading day as for government bonds sold over by the most since 2015 and i can tell you the country right now is on tenter hooks we're all waiting to see the president decides to do following that report that found that he may have violated the constitution relating to a transaction that took place at his farm at around two years ago in which 580,000 u.s. dollars were exchanged for cows, it's alleged the president's version of the events that a sudanese person came to the northwest south africa and came to the farm to buy cows but of course there's not much knowledge on this sudanese businessman and a clear track record of the money entering the country other investigations going on related to this ransaction by revenue services as well as our reserve bax. despite the president's best attempts to try and clear his name and convince the independent panel that released the report the president unfortunately wasn't able to do so successfully. found quite a number of holes in the president's version of evens. as it's here in south afric

the rand corp.'s subsequent findings there are no coincidence.y have now pulled him out again, uh, we discussed him more than once. yes, yes, it appeared in 2019 and it was no coincidence that, as we see, they paid attention to it, then it seemed to many, but i remember fantasies. by the way, as in the studios in russia, here are some american experts. we were told. yes, it's all, it's not serious. you will think it. these are some developments. there it is not clear these are theoretical calculations. well, we saw then, as soon as. in belarus but there was a separate section devoted to where it is necessary to shake up the situation, dispersing the forces of russia, uh, belarus, central asia , kazakhstan, and so on. we saw how it started to burn. there, it means on the borders of the russian federation, that is, not only that, well, let's remember. we kind of forgot about that too. why am i ordering this report? after all, the main one is written there in black and white, which means the customer is the army of the united states of america, not

this is from rand paul's annual report of what's in this thing, $118,000 for a study thanos from marvel can snap fingers, $200,000 for expresso machine for the dod. $31 million for covid relief fund spent on luxury cars. i will start off with you, what do you make of this bill and a lot of stuff that doesn't seem like it belongs in there? >> look, no legislation is perfect but there's a lot in this bill that's really important, we are talking about funding for health care for veterans. we are talking about funding more cops on the street, talking funding a variety that are really important. it's important to know that one fifth of earmarks in the omnibus was requested by republicans that at the end of the day voted against the bill and i guaranty they will say no and take the doe and rand paul will show up to a ribbon cutting and it's never going to be perfect legislation but it's extremely important legislation that makes investments that we need and huge legislative win for the biden administration. >> this happens every single year. we have discussion of how important the budget is,

reminded of this every year on festivus when senator rand paul releases a report on how the governmentour hard earned tax money throughout the year. this year washington, d.c. outdid themselves spending over $482 billion on wasteful projects like dropping $3 million to inject hamsters with steroids and watching them fight. another 2 million injecting puppies with cocaine not very nice. another cool million turned mice into alcoholics. but, at least the mice weren't racist because the government spent half a million dollars teaching them about racial aggression. but, to make you feel a little better. we did spend $210 million on education. not in crumbling school systems like st. louis or philadelphia, that, of course, would make too much sense. that education money actually went to the country of jordan. and while we're talking about the middle east, our department of defense also spent another $28 million on new camouflage uniforms. the only problem with that is it is visible tan camo. believe it or not, none of these take home the award for ridiculous government project of the year.

senator rand paul detailed numerous examples of wasteful spending. according to paul, the nih spent 2.3 million injecting puppies with cocaine. there's evil to that, isn't there? the senator says that over $30 million of covid relief funds were used to buy luxury cars. paul said ask yourself in the leadership of both parties is all that much different on spending or endless wars from blo bloated bureaucracy. just like i've been saying again, it's washington versus the rest of us where the interests of hard-working americans take a back seat to the special interests of the swamp. now here for reaction. former republican senator scott brown along with the founder of the committee to unleash prosperity, steve moore and executive director of the heritage foundation, jessica anderson. thank you all for joining me tonight. i think that rand might be a little coy in asking the question if there's any difference, steve moore, between the parties. there's a uni party, there's an interest in the mentality and the cultural sentiment of washington. would you agr

rand paul's speech castigated republicans and democrats for the bill. it was excellent. they spend money like a drunken sailor. these guys are worse. a drunken sailor spends his own money. they are spending your money that they steal from your pockets. host: nick, i will go to rose in north carolina. how old are you? caller: born in 1961. i'm disgusted with the omnibus. the quid pro quo did matter. we never should have put nih biowarfare labs in putin's backyard. there was a fundraiser for adam schiff in 2013. pasternak is an arms dealer. i'm looking at his picture in syria right now on my laptop. dnc operative alexandria -- related to the fake steel dossier. the world economic forum, hunter biden's laptop, they are all tied together. we refuse to put the puzzle together so here are things i want you to look up online. first of all, look up uge tube.com, hunter biden connected to ukraine biolab. there's a wonderful video. look up grand-jury.net, planned genocide by democrats, rhino's the nih, the cdc, the who, in the world economic forum. host: cynthia says i'm grateful

top secret safe at rand. and i copied them at the same time. and as a friend of mine who went to prison, and was a model for me, really, randy keeler. told me at the time he was one of the very few people i told i was going to do this. and he said, "there's enough known about vietnam." "now in 69 we have that." "you should put out these nuclear papers." "they're the ones that matter." "to try to reduce the chance of their actually being carried out a nuclear war." and i said, "well, that's true." "they are more important." "but vietnam is where the bombs are falling right now, and i have to do what i can to shorten that." and you released this trove of documents which actually gave a long history to us involvement in vietnam over four administrations. in doing so, you must have known that there would be massive legal consequences for you. well, i assumed without knowing anything of the legal history or the law at that time, or the constitution, which i didn't think applied to me, i worked for the president. and as nixon said, "when the presiden

from vietnam, i came back and said to the rand corporation, which i was working on, i was a consultantor defence. "stay away from this." "there will be no..." "there will be nothing to gain from being associated with this war." when i went into the pentagon, i was asked in as a full employee in 1964, i was asked to work on vietnam only exclusively for my boss, the assistant secretary of defense. but it was very clear then in the 64, the place was falling apart. the government, our puppet government, was falling like dominoes, you might say, in saigon every other day. this was not a war that we were going to win. but i was there as a cold warrior thinking that now that we have, in 65 while i was in the pentagon, committed troops and previous to that bombing, we're in it. so, i was trying to make something of it, and i certainly wanted to beat communists for once. i didn't think we'd win, but perhaps we could get something out of this that would be less than humiliation. but having seen what was happening in vietnam, having decided the war, as you just said to me, was a loser. i'm just i

rand paul is steaming mad.p of what he had to say yesterday. >> the american people don't want this. they are sick and tired of it. they are paying for it through the nose with inflation. adding a trillion dollars to the deficit will simply fuel the fires that are consuming our wages and consuming our retirement plans. it is a terrible system. someone needs to stands up. we're standing up and we're going to say no. >> thank you, rand for bringing the prop. >> bill: ron johnson from wisconsin after that and rand paul took a picture of the 4,000 pages. at the bottom of that picture you can see danger, caution, danger, omnibus warning ahead. >> this is the best picture. i love the fact he used it as a prop. it's true. they dumped 4,000 pages on the members monday night. i'm told that the reason that it was held up in terms of the text, the text inside was held up because there was pushback about how to explain away billions more to the f.b.i. so here we are in the middle of a conversation of collusion between the

take a listen to what kentucky senator rand paul had to say yesterday. >> what do you tell your patient who says i have been vaccinated three times and now i have had covid, did it help me to have gotten covid? of course, it did. having gotten the disease naturally is like a vaccine but an even better vaccine. >> a reminder for insenator, more than 17,000 people have died from covid in your state. but this is nothing new from rand paul who was one of the first republicans to give oxygen to conspiracy theories about dr. anthony fauci, even going after him in covid hearings and fund-raising off it. those conspiracies were so ramp nlt the doctor and his family have received death threats. their priority isn't keeping their constituents safe but rather investigating the man who has dedicated his entire career to finding cures and treatments for deadly diseases. elon musk is even getting in on it, tweeting, my pronouns are prosecute fauci, throwing in a gratuitous swipe at trans folks because of course. while rolling back twitter's covid information policy and replatforming thousands of user

in fact, jim jordan and i have already meant with rand paul. we've had several conversations. so he had a lot of big plans for potential senate majority. he doesn't have that, unfortunately. elections is have consequences, but he is sharing information with us. so we are in close communication with rand paul, and we'll continue to be throughout this whole information. -- investigation. kennedy: do you think joe manchin is going to switch parties? >> i hope so. i mean, if he wants to have my life if west virginia, he needs to get on the republican party bandwagon. kennedy: interesting. and where -- if you actually uncover the origin of covid-19, what happens then? >> well, we want to hold people accountable for a cover-up -- kennedy: what does that mean who? well, i mean, if dr. fauci lied and we have evidence that dr. fauci lied, then i think that he needs to be referred. criminally. because this is something that never should have happened. this is what happens when you have a political party that a doesn't provide any i'm of oversight. -- any type of oversight. dr. fauci was

i'm not happy with the decision at all. >> ainsley: rand, what's your reaction?ionately care about our education and our kid's education my kids are 9 and 7. this graduate report has told us three things. hiring of the super and hiring of the interim. obstruction. and nationwide search for second who has to be outside of loudoun county. hour children have to be safe in school. so those three things have to be the top things in mind as we move forward. >> ainsley: you have one in private school. you have one in loudoun county school. look at your cute family. showing a picture. beautiful. you know, as a mom of a daughter, i could not imagine this is something i haven't had to worry about. dropping her off at school and snosnowing knowing she could goo the bathroom by herself and be insulinsult assaulted in there d take that student to another school and it happens again. you shouldn't have to worry about that as a parent. >> you should not have tore about that. i will tell you that myself, along with some other parents in loudoun county are terrified about sending

was staying with this story, and william courtney is an a junk senior fellow with the rand corporation who served as what health senior director for russia. ukraine and you ration affairs and is a former us ambassador to georgia. he joins us now from washington. d. c. thank you very much for being on al jazeera. can you just give us, 1st of all, when the idea of what goes into a prisoner's swap like this, just, how difficult would it have been to get over the line? it normally is not quite so difficult, but because relations are very strained out with moscow. both sides have been concerned about what might be the reaction to giving up a certain prisoner the united states. victor boot the scene as a harden criminal international pro. busy but he served most of his sentence already a little bit easier to, to give up. if he were at the beginning of a sentence, then that might be politically difficult for the white house to do that because of part line opposition. in the period we had a number of trades in which pardon spies were traded for human rights advocates in the soviet union. so it

william courtney as an agent senior fellow at rand corporation. as a former diplomat, he served as white house senior director for russia, ukraine, and eurasian affairs. he joined us from washington, d. c. thanks for being with us on al jazeera to night. william this arms package from the u. s. that include a patriot air defense missile system. do we know when it will arrive and how long before these weapons are operational and can actually make a difference on the ground? it will take several months to arrive. there has to be training for a number of ukrainians that will probably take place or facility germany. so i would love to spring some time as possible. time for deployment. and william, this visit by president zalinski to the u. s. and the fact that he's going to be addressing a joint, a joint session of congress. how's russia going to be viewing all this? are they seeing this is a provocation? the russians probably have several views or she will. some russians will see that the criminal has been saying all along this war is really between

i think that rand might be being a little coy in asking the question if there's any real difference. steve moore, between the parties. i mean, there is a unit party. there is an interest in the mentality and the cultural sentiment of washington. would you agree that, in fact, i sense that this argument between conservatives and republicans is really just part of the theater, that there's one interest and that is growing. government, which requires, of course, a growing contempt for the american people. great to be with you, tammy. merry christmas. i just want to correct you on one thing you said when you said there is not money for border border enforcement. actually , there is money for border enforcement. hundreds of millions of dollars. it's just not to protect our border. this stuff. so it's almost it's almost laughable to waste in this budget. and my my friends, that heritage of just literally scores and scores of pages of these programs. i think this is a total political disaster for the republicans, tammy, because they're in on this. i've been on this show many times blaming,

people did try to get out in their automobiles, but they couldn't get down the street so now they asked rand bigger problem forfirst now they asked rand in, causing a bigger problem for first responders and those emergency services are crippled right now. so, western new york, buffalo, is at a standstill, nobody can really move around. i was readin: nobody can really move around. i was reading about — nobody can really move around. i was reading about the _ nobody can really move around. i was reading about the famous _ nobody can really move around. i was reading about the famous blizzard of 1977 in buffalo, and i was also reading earlier that people who were there then are saying this is worse? yes, some of the generational western new yorkers who hire spoken to who lived through the 1977 storm, they were young kids at the time, they were young kids at the time, they say this is the worst they have seen since then, i wasn't alive for that but i have covered four major storms in my career, this is the worst one i have seen. i covered november 201a, and the one which was just a month ago, wh

still ahead as congress passes a massive $1.7 trillion senate bill, senator rand paul highlighting theasteful spending they've done this year including 3 million for watching hamsters fight and $118,000 for citing the fictional character with treasury secretary. monica crowley reacts to the list we just can't make up next. griff: first, another surprise for the 12 days of carley. the moms of "fox & friends" came together to share their best advice just for you, carley. take a look. >> hello, carley. you've gotten a lot of advice from me already being a new mom, and i'm always a phone call away here for you. you know what, you're going to be the greatest mom ever so don't worry about it. having said that, make sure you ask for help when you need it because that's something i didn't do enough of. take some time for yourself as well. i'm always here for you and i love you and i can't wait to meet him. >> hey, carley. you are the most beautiful pregnant mama i've ever seen and i'm so happy for you. my advice for you is to enjoy the time you have off. really just take care of yourself, love

anyway, coming up, senator rand paul will respond. also tonight, senator john kennedy, he will review aoc's new climate movie that is predictably flopping. i mean, flopping badly at the box office and later, a woke social justice keyboard warrior had a very tough time on capitol hill when confronted with her own violent rhetoric. we're going to play this tape. it's very entertaining, but first, the evidence is undeniable. the biden administration now has failed the american people. once again, the border is wide open. and any attempts at diplomacy with mexico or other countries in central america, south america, they have all failed. that means fentanyl opioids smuggled across the border keeps happening. and by the way, now the number one killer of young americans in our country. now, this body cam video purportedly shows a police officer overdosing after accidentally inhaling fentanyl during a traffic stop. now, meanwhile, dangerous mexican cartels are now more powerful than ever, more wealthy than ever before. they have human traffi

it's got a rand up now of some other world news headlines. russia has released footage of its defense minister said again, showing who reportedly inspecting the troops involved in its invasion of ukraine. it's not clear when or where it was filmed. the announcement comes a day after the kremlin said president vladimir putin met with commanders to discuss proposals for the next steps in the war. chin is, is electro board says there was just under 9 percent voter turnout and saturdays parliamentary election. the ballot was also boycotted by the opposition. 9000000 people were eligible to vote. however, the new parliament will have no authority following a power grab by the countries president proves new president di napoli, while there has renewed coals for parliament to approve early elections amid deadly protests. on friday, low makers voted down the proposal and congress early elections are a key demand of anti government protestors on rest, began after president pedro castillo, was ousted and arrested for trying to dissolve congress. dozens of demonstrators happy killed in clashes w

used instead animal head carpet, usually hung over the fireplace, the head of a buffalo costs 10,000 randthat is, 1,500 dollars. it can be exported from the country only with processed animal skin it cannot be exported. everything else please. love for animals in africa has been and remains many-sided. some people grow them all their lives. someone hunts them, someone cooks them, but in the end , the whole animal world benefits from such activities. after all, part of the income from the brutal business goes to nature protection and the fight against poachers, and part it is in the literal sense of the word lion's . and people knew the beneficial properties of pleasant smells even in ancient times, incense in ancient temples was burned for the gods, though mere mortals sniffed them, one of the most common aromatic substances was incense. this rare resin in the old days was sold for its weight in gold, and it was to her that the prosperity of ancient arabia was due, looks like incense. i must say quite prosaically modestly they set it on fire with the help of special coal. and i must say t

the anonymous threat, "you want to vote mitch mcconnell and rand paul, you will deal with what comes with that. i want you all to look at your dead kids and no it was because how you voted. i will do it all at a football game. i will do it whenever. you can't stop me." and threatened donald trump, three schools in the era have issued warnings to the community and the fbi has stepped in looking to identify that culprit. my goodness. >> todd: unbelievable listen to this residence el paso, texas, with my friends are just appearing in their driveways. one woman who lives near el paso border highway said, "this guy came up to me and say if he could stay in my garage a few minutes. so it startled me. that would startle anyone. she and the migrant had a little blood on him and they spoke to u.s. border patrol, u.s. sector warms the criminal smuggling migrants who would not be eligible for asylum. >> carley: a new texas task force chasing down illegal god always has the problem keeps getting worse. >> todd: kevin corke live in washington with the latest, kevin. >> carley and todd, the lone s

. >> jesse: senator rand paul joins us now. you love it when someone asks you what have you done wrong in your life and you pause for about 40 seconds and scratch your chin? >> let me count the ways. likely, likely there is no public figure or public health figure that has made a greater error in judgment than dr. fauci. the error in judgment was to fund gain of function research in a totalitarian country. fund research that allowed them to create super advises that in all likelihood accidentally leaked into the public and caused 7 trillion people to die. -- 7 million people die. this ranks up there with military. accidental goes to judgment. talk about errors. you think he might apologize to the world for funding research that allowed super viruses to be created in a lab, a lab that was not properly outfitted for safety. that people were already reporting was dangerous, to support that type of research and then to look the other way and say nothing to see here, and to cover it up for the last two years, he has been covering hi

and other reason for the, at these caches is, ah, that of rand balaban forces because unsafe are damaging. the fence fed, it has installed on the 2600 long or kept 2200 kilometer long border. so by for by boston, it's a matter of national security. i've gone balaban feared that with their don't want this fence on the border and they do not recognize the border, also known as the durant light. so why doesn't the of gun dolly barn all wire with other afghan government also recognized the direct line? so a dual line was to my kicked it in 1893 by a british colonial rules to clearly show the limit from where british in the us started at that time of land of guns. said that on this border or dis frank, the it has divided the bush stone population and also it has deprived of kindness kind of access to the early b and c and made it a landlord country and also of band i live unfair that this borders border allows a borders border would allow free movement of its people free movement off yoko tribesmen to getting on business earth, and they all to have relatives in or in both parts of august borde

and of course, that'll be rand 2 of the party, but tell us what is planned there in argentina? that the party is not gonna stop most people. yes, i already told me if argentina wins, i'm not going to go to work on monday. i'm not going to go to work on tuesday. i have to celebrate. so the party will be non stop here. i imagined that there were millions the millions tonight, celebrating year in the streets. people have set up, you know, barbecues already. boy and i talked to group who had the jelly on the, on the street and the barbecue on the street, and they're going to avenue all night as well. and once the team is back, there will be long celebrations as well. and actually there was some speculation that there will be a holiday tomorrow because of argentina winning, but it hasn't been confirmed. they're going to make their own holiday out of it. i think it's going to be a massive. all right, nicole, thank you so much for last dw correspondent, co wrist and woodside us enjoy the party that's gonna round up of some other world news headlines now in iraq. the so called islamic

it is already outside your heart christmas christ christmas christmas to give to all people one's rands warmth to all corners to forgive because outside it is already christmas in our hearts and again in our hearts christmas in 2016 we were engaged in what we considered the most necessary , that is, the return of veterans from the war to peaceful life and looking at the number of those who returned to the war with that percentage i believe that we have achieved our goal since the 16th year, we created several of our social enterprises, this and made coffee, this is also a carpentry workshop where children's toys and various decorations were made, and the most interesting it is our new year-christmas series where there were shops and various figurines to decorate your homes . unfortunately, we have not been doing this since february, if you take it to the workshop, so there is great hope that the 23rd year will bring us victory and we will start creating such days again in one of the christmas and new year holidays, you always think about what you should do, how you should do it, and you

i think rand paul and my colleague make some good points here.k at what our appropriations are, how much we appropriate to foreign governments. i know ukraine's issues and we want to support them. it is an important issue. we have a lot of internal issues here in the u.s. for people of color, people who are poor and disenfranchised and poverty itself. i hope both sides take a deeper and closer look at that because i think my colleagues on the other side are correct to some extent. both sides need to do a better job at it. >> molly: a quick other topic. florida democrats crossing the aisle. a new report calling them desantis democrats. it is based on inflation, covid lockdowns. your thoughts on potential democrats supporting this possible candidate for the presidency, mark and scott quickly. mark, you first. >> a great example. they aren't leaving the democrat party. the democrat party is leaving them. florida is a blueprint. if you focus on inflation, education, making sure parents have the right to raise their children you win. that's what is be

and the feds can keep raising interest rates, but a tiger chasing its tail, it is all over with but rand great job, trying to give kevin mccarthy a shot at slowing the process down of slowing down the spending but i'm afraid it is over now. neil: then will go through? >> as soon as we are done with this interview i expect the gavel to be dropped and we will go back and i'm sure they have the votes to get it through the senate, santa claus is still coming but i would be willing to stay here through christmas to balance a federal budget. neil: just to be clear mitch mcconnell has 10 republican votes to make this happen. >> i'm sure he does. 15, 20 voted for cloture on it already, they have the votes. 8 to say this but it is over with. it will be official in a few minutes. we have done what we can to slow this down, inflation will continue, another trillion dollars being borrowed from our grandchildren. i get where mitch mcconnell is coming from on this, we disagree on the process. we agree on the same goal. it was all over with when we didn't go through 12 buckets of money one at a time. t

rand paul think it's a matter of lack of spying. get your reaction. >> the obvious will be 3000 pages. will get a two hours before they want to pass it, no one will read it but hidden the 3000 pages we're going to waive pay go so steve morris right it will take 41 votes. the other thing 41 votes. the big spending it completely and totally advocated the power of the purse republicans are emasculated, they have no power and they're unwilling to gain that power back. >> isn't the reason for that, the lack of spying in the republican party and the lack of leadership in the solid leadership. >> absolutely i think rand paul is completely correct and no one's ever accuse me of having a lack of spying. what i want to say this is not about personality it's not about pointing fingers it's about a reality we have not won elections in success cycles. on looking at republicans grassroots person who came up from the ranks from the rnc for my political work. i see if we don't change leadership now and provide a vision and a plan for dealing with t

people who say all this spending is way too much, we are heading toward $1.7 trillion and senator randentucky could slow things down. here is what he said today. >> the democrats and big government republicans will be offering you a christmas tree. a christmas tree in washington is a bill that has something on it for everyone. you won't know what it is until you get it, you won't be able to read it until it's done, but it will happen because the only thing that invariably happens in washington is they wl get together to spend money. lisa: i've often call this a rainbow, a huge bill appears out of nowhere. we do expect an omnibus to appear as a rainbow, but will it have enough time, especially centers like rand paul try to slow it down. judy: we know tha these are not the only major issues out there hanging in the balance. what else is at stake right now? lisa: let me hit a couple of them. first the electoral count act. but we are talking about there is the old, antiquated law, which really came into prominence on january 6. as you recall, there was a theory that vice president pence co

senator rand paul weighs in in moment. first, we're joined by john paul mcisaac, the computer repair main at the beginning of this story that had the laptop and turned it over to the fbi. john, good to have you with us today. thanks for being here. i'm sure it has been a busy few days for you, sir. just take our viewers back to your original revelation that this laptop that had been brought in for repair had all of this on it. >> well, when i was hired by hunter to do a data recovery from list happen top, initially i saw a lot of the homemade personal and embarrassing material that has been reported on. i saw some documents. back then, when he dropped it off and i did the recovery, his father wasn't running for president. it wasn't until about two weeks later that he announced his candidacy and i started to fear for my safety because i was sitting on a time bomb. i didn't know how big it was after repeated attempts to opportunitier to come in and collect it failed to do so. i sitting on criminality. i didn't know how much.

anyway coming up senator rand paul will respond and also tonight's john kennedy will review aoc's newmate movie. that is predictably flopping. i mean flopping badly in the box office. and then later awoke social justice keyboard warrior had a very tough time on capitol hill when confronted with her own violent rhetoric and ready to play this tape in his play very entertaining. the first evidence is undeniable the biden administration has not failed due to the people once again. in the border is wide open. any attempts at diplomacy with mexico or other countries, in central america or south america they have all failed. that means that now, open fields, they keep muddling across the border and it keeps happening. and now the number one killer of young americans in our country, and this body can video it reportedly shows a police officer overdosing after accidentally inhaling that now during a traffic stop. meanwhile, dangerous mexican cartels are more powerful than ever and more wealthy than ever before, they have human trafficking, sex trafficking, child sex trafficking across the bor

rand paul and acidity takes over government affairs committee in the senate, that's a real point of his. energy and commerce in the house oversight and a house as well they of all really said this has been something we want to discuss. i think democrats feel rejected the idea of doing it. i don't think is that high priority for them, particularly over the last congress. >> host: we will have you chat with aav few callers. jeff in new york independent good morning. >> caller: good morning. i would like to propose that one of the problems that we don't politicize infighting public health --ic [inaudible] one of the problems we just talked about. and we don't have enough money to actually implement efforts adequately for the next pandemic. or for that matter for public health which is sorely underfunded. what needs to be done is some public health -- [inaudible] so people participate in inviting -- [inaudible] and they become -- and available. i have received no response except polite comments. thank you. >> host: on that question, the politicizing of public health funding. how much is the

but will we have enough time if senators like rand paul slow it down?ave the image in my head of a rainbow. but we know these are not the only issues hanging in the balance. what else is at stake right now? lisa: let me hit a couple of them. first, the electoral count act. the antiquated law that came into prominence on january 6. as you recall, there was a theory that vice president pence could himself block the certification of the presidential vote. that led directly to the insurrection, because of that loophole or some say confusion in the law. there is a move to clear it up and close any kind otheory that the certifition can be stopped as part of that function. another big item, funding for ukraine in its 10th month. the war needs more funding from the united states, says ukraine, and there is $37 billion ukraine is waiting for that is tied up in all of this. judy: and finally thanks to the election results, we are days away from republicans taking over control of the house. where does the battle for their leadership stand? lisa: it's messy. i thin

there is a wealthy man from philadelphia who has given $10 million to rand paul. it is getting totally out of control. interestingly i never, i look at the results of a lot of elections and the money does not win. we are in a battle that does not make any sense. i always say, right now about -- most of the money exchanging is historically spent on tv advertising. of the remaining 40%, probably 80% do not believe them and 90% hate them. i do not not -- i do not understand how it is a good strategy to spend money on it. when you are in a competitive district, you worry about 1000 votes change even in a state like pennsylvania or georgia. you are spending this money chasing a very small number of people who are persuadable and who have made up their minds already. it seems to be so insane to me. host: as you are packing up your office is this emotional? rep yarmuth: incredibly emotional. i said to people because i try to combat the emotion, but it's like mi ready to leave? no. -- am i ready to leave? no. i know i do not want to be here two or four years from now so y

you got visibly angry during some of those hearings senator rand paul was going after you. >> there will be a responsibility for those who funded the lab, including yourself. >> i totally - >> this committee -- >> allow the witness to - >> i totally resent the lie that you are propagating, senator. >> reporter: do you have any regrets about the way that you handled that >> i think 99.9% of the time i have been my usual self, which is very calm and measured the only time i really got upset was when senator paul totally inappropriately on national tv that was following that hearing accused me of being responsible for the deaths of 5 million people now, with all due respect, i am not going to take that from anybody, including a senator. >> reporter: the politics of this did it slow down the response in a measurable way in terms of the number of people who could have been saved >> i think so. it just is unconscionable that you have a life-saving intervention in the form of a vaccine that you know is safe and highly effective in protecting you from advanced disease and you have people and gro

senator rand paul and i and about 20 the other congressmen sued over the airplane mask mandate.her group's file matured before ours, and they got an injunction, and that's why you don't have to wear maxes on airplanes right now. but we filed an amicus brief, and would you believe it? joe biden is still fighting to implement masks on airplanes. the people have moved on, but he's fighting us in count to keep that mandate -- in court to keep that mandate, and it's just not constitutional. the other lawsuit is against nancy pelosi on her mask mandate in the house. she actually reduced our salaries for refusing to wear the mask. we think that's a violation of the 27th amendment, and we're ready to go to the supreme court to prove it. tom: i love it. now, before you go go let me -- i do follow you on twitter. tell me why i should drink raw milk. >> oh, it's great for your digestive system. i can't go into all the details here, but it is healthy for you, and it tastes like freedom, frankly. it takes like liquid ice cream. it's so great. people who haven't tried raw milk haven't tried m

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kentucky republican senator rand paul calls the spending reckless. there hasn't been enough time for single person to have read this entire bill. speaker of the house, nancy pelosi says she hopes to see the bill moved quickly to the democrat controlled house. we want people to be able to go home. and speaker pelosi says the goal is to have this package through the house. >> by tomorrow morning for now in washington, raquel martin, back to you. >> ira killed. that's the goal. is there any conceivable chance the house doesn't pass this bill? >> well, speaker pelosi seems fairly confident she has enough votes to get this package through. but in the event that there is some sort hiccup or delay, we know the senate also passed a short-term spending bill that would keep the government open through december 30th. so again, the house can also take that up to try and never any crisis on december. 24th. >> all right. raquel martin reporting live for us tonight in washington. thanks to a cup. >> happening now, holiday travels ramping up. here's a live look now