ric grenell, thank you very much for being here. >> thanks for having me, maria. e on this, ric? we just saw those pictures, it's absolutely extraordinary. now we get this from our colleagues at fox 5 in washington, an internal e-mail obtained by fox 5 in washington reveals members to have national guard might be in dc through the fall of 2021. the national security council is ask to investigate capitol police on planning post march 12th support and meet for agencies to discuss this on wednesday 17th, this week, ric, we know that this is costing half a billion dollars to keep all of this fortification in place till mid-march, the price tag all the way until the fall would be extraordinary. what kind of intel would warrant such a move? >> well, first of all, let's be clear that many dc politicians, nancy pelosi and all her friends love this. this is like living behind a gated community. they want to be away from the people anyway. so in many ways they are loving the exclusivity on what's happening in capitol hill. i want thank a second to thank senator ron johnson a

it would be a very different electorate in the state of california, a republican could win, and ric grenellsecond the notion, but whether or not -- you are lucky because we are out of time, ric. you have been saved, literally, by the music. but next time, we want an answer. i'm going to bring matt back and you back from all right? all right, more "hannity" after this. ♪ ♪ >> at aspen dental where new starts happen, every day. get exceptional care at every step, unparalleled safety at every visit, and flexible payment options for every budget. now, during the everyday smiles event new patients get a full exam & set of x-rays with no obligation. no insurance? no worries, it's free. plus, now all patients can get 20% off their treatment plan. find every reason to smile. every day at aspen dental. call 1-800-aspendental or book today at aspendental.com ♪ ♪ speed to slain officer is lying in honor in the capitol rotunda as officers lost his life defending the capitol building. hehe is the fifth who was not a military figure to receive this honor. president biden at the capitol now about to pay h

joining me now back with us is the one and only ric grenell.e is the former acting director of national intelligence. now when ric speaks people sit up and listen. ric, do you believe judge merrick garland when he says he will protect the justice department probe into both trump russia abuses, special counsel probe? also hunter biden? because chuck grassley was not convinced. >> i have got to say senator grassley is so great on these issues. when i was acting dni he was aggressive with me, pushing me hard, we need more information and transparency is what is called for. so this is a senator who holds republicans and democrats to account. he was very tough on us and very fair at the same time. i have to go i share senator grassley's confusion and worry that what the initial answers from merrick garland were when asked, he couldn't say that this durham investigation would absolutely go on unless there were some sort of a specific merit issue that they were dealing with. the only reason to get rid of somebody is because of the substance isn't righ

you were also number 2 in intelligence office under ric grenell and you along ric grenell, john ratcliffesue around china and the threat it poses. i want to get your take on what president biden said in hall this week that the fact that one million uighurs are locked up in concentration camps, he said, well, this is just a culture norm. it's a chinese culture norm. kash: this administration's take on biggest threats of america which is china. they are in genocide in china against the uighurs, that's factually not in dispute and for the leader of the free world to say genocide is the norm. can you believe if president trump would have said the genocide of uighurs is cultural norm? it allows for this outrageous conduct and more importantly the death and defamation of a minority population in china who are encamped, in fenced enclosures and cannot leave and are undergoing reeducation therapy. this is a serious threat to the world. maria: and not only that but i'm glad that you mentioned the left media allowing this propaganda to take place. look at these headlines from the global times. xi j

let's watch former acting dni ric grenell.ious pattern of how the biden administration, the biden picks, the nominees have really been downplaying china and the crisis that we're in with china and overplaying the russian threat. russia is a problem. china is a crisis. the whole idea of having an america first policy is to stand for western values. it is to stand for capitalism. it is to stand for the rule of law. we can't cut that in half. we can't decide we'll just have consensus with the chinese when they have a genocide going on. what, we will have half a genocide? elizabeth: that is in reference to president biden saying to the cnn town hall on tuesday that chinese president xi xinping he gets it when biden criticizes china for human rights abuses. biden said, quote i will not speak out against that. there are cultural norms in different countries this is about hong kong, taiwan, what china is doing to the uyghurs. your response to that? >> that is perfect example. on one hand the administration is very proud they continue

. >> bret: you know, democrats .2 trump nominees like ric grenell who is a prolific partisan tweeter who did not have a problem getting through the vote. if by critics of the hold up say republicans did not even address some of president trump's tweets that dealt specifically with people. >> i a lot of my members chose not to comment on the presence daily tweeting, i was among them. we concluded it was not a constructive use of our time. >> bret: you don't think that there's a difference there as far as holding one side accountable or not? >> well, i think when it comes to being confirmed, your record is before the senate. the senates and the personal business, unlike the house. and so when members come up for confirmation, their whole record is before us. in this day and age, tweeting as part of your record. >> bret: we are just 12 days, senator, since your blistering speech on the senate floor about former president trump. here's a piece of that. >> he did not do his job. he didn't take steps so federal law could be be faithfully executed. and order restored. no. instead, according

let's get started right now we begin with former acting director national intelligence ric grenell he is a straight shooter, when he talks people sit up and take notice and listen. it is good to see you, what is your reaction when you heard president biden downplayed an excuse it seemed like he was excusing china human rights abuses at last night townhall. >> i hope you don't mind but i'm going to say one second were sending prayers to rush limbaugh's family it's been a rough and somber day for many people, he is an icon and i hope we can constantly say that. in reference to the cnn question in the china question. i think this was one little mess up on cnn we wouldn't be talking about this. but this is now a real serious pattern of how the biden a administration, the biden picks the nominee have really been downplaying china in the crisis that were in with china and overplaying the russian threat, russia is a problem, china is a crisis and when you look at the cia nominee, bill burns, he had a great career as an outsider for a little while but the last six years he's been running an n

ric grenell, thanks very much. the former u.s. ambassador to germany and former director of national intelligence. by the way, it's not a total of 17. some are retiring, like pat toomey in pennsylvania. we told you we would hear from greg abbott in texas. a lot of power has been returned to most texans right now but let to a cascading series of issues including water that isn't safe and indeed foot shortages. the governor right now. >> the first responders to keep texans safe. i want to say things to the truckers, the formers, the ranches, the grocery store workers and refinery works that are ensuring texans have the food and the supplies that they need right now. because of their tireless efforts, we continue to make tremendous strides to overcome the challenges over the past week. we're working nonstop with local and federal partners, my staff and i have been in communication with local leaders and emergency officials throughout the state and will continue to work closely with them. we're also working with the biden administrati

elizabeth: ric grenell, great to see you. thanks for joining us. come back soon, okay? you're great on the show. >> thanks. elizabeth: coming up former louisiana governor bobby jindal. he will join us with the update on texas now battling the winter version of hurricane harvey. dozens now dead. millions still without power. the debate, the biden administration and climate change activists say the time is now to overhaul the power grid for green energy. officials are pushing back hard. the grid is not ready. it is buckling. it would be a dangerous move. the story next. >> yet the last nuclear power plant that was built here is could man chee peak outside of fort worth. in 1991 it came on line. construction started in 74. the coal-fired plants have been reduced by a third of capacity. we're not investing in new gas-fired generation plants and yet there has been an explosion in the construction of wind energy farms all throughout west texas and that is an intentional public policy decision from the highest levels of state government. the governor, the texas legislature, th

decided that above all other americans, the best pick for ambassador to germany would be that guy, ric grenelltalk when the nomination was announced that grenell's past behavior online might disqualify him from getting confirmed in the senate because it was so mean and sexist and petty and gross. turned out to be no problem, though, really, ended up being smooth sailing. mr. grenell and his archive of mean tweets were confirmed in the senate with bipartisan support, with votes to spare, not a big deal, apparently. right now, the current president, president biden, is dealing with a confirmation speed bump for one of his nominees, though. her name is neera tanden. she is biden's nominee to run the office of management and budget. and her nomination drew immediate complaints from republicans in the senate who complained that her past tweets about them were mean. they said her tweets about republican lawmakers were too combative. they said her old tweets about them long before she was a nominee would make it impossible for her to work with them. it seemed she would receive few if any votes to the

there is buzz that ric grenell might be interested in newsom's job.dged the question, though, on sunday morning futures. listen. >> i think what we have to do is concentrate first on the signature that we're gathering. i really just want to focus on long-term solutions in california, that's going to take five, six years for somebody to really reform this place. >> reporter: speaking of recalls, former new york governor george pa tacky says the state should look at recalling andrew cuomo amid the nursing home scandal. unlike california, new york has no legal proceeding for ousting an elected official midterm. coming up, we will speak to the senior advisor behind the recall of newsom. ashley, todd. >> thanks so much. todd: new york governor andrew cuomo top aide admits state laws go too easy on nursing home as the coverup scandal intensifies. despite widespread covid-19 deaths, not a single new york nursing home has lost its license. a new york assemblyman joins us next hour to discuss. >> the new cdc director doubles down that it's safe for schools to

let me go to ric grenell. ryan brought up the issue of doxxing. officials and staff and they are going to be held accountable? are you, have you ever been a donald trump supporter? really? stuart stevens, i believe. >> they've been vindictive. they've been nasty. but look, i want to answer ryan's question of why steve schmidt didn't respond. it's the age-old question in washington, d.c., because it's about money. this is an organization that collected $87 million to unseat donald trump, and other republicans. they are claiming to be former republicans. they are disgruntled because they didn't get in on all the consulting fees from the beginning. make no mistake, if donald trump would have hired any of them, they wouldn't have done the lincoln project. this is the old story of washington: money, money, money. they all got millions of dollars, and i think the big story right now is why aren't the donors to the lincoln project abandoning them? there was a story today saying that some of them are thinking of possibly not funding them anymore. are you

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tammy bruce's with us, congress is burgess owens, a number-- ric grenell is with us as well. it's friday, february 19, "varney & co." begins right now. ♪♪ david: the game, a little late in the queue, but that's all right. nor snow in new york city although is tapering off a little bit as storms continue to all of the nation all over the place. it's been a tough winter, folks, a tough year and a tough winter, but good times are to come. we have someone coming up in a moment, and doctor from johns hopkins suggesting we could have heard immunity as early as april. let's get to it with house lawmakers drilling ceos of robinhood and writing on the gamestop trading frenzy. what did we learn during these five hours? susan: not much, five hours, a lot of technical glitches and a lot of feedback that made it hard to follow but the biggest take away from the five hours was just how close robinhood was pushed to the brain. they didn't have the money to cover the trades and was very close to having to liquidate 13 million accounts on a platform, catastrophic as you heard from vlad tenev

elizabeth: welcome back former acting director of national intelligence ric grenell had a lot to saysident biden foreign policy. watch this. >> if this was just one little mess up on cnn, we would not be talking about this, this is now a real serious pattern of how the biden the administration, the biden picks the nominees have really been downplaying china in the crisis that were in with china and overplaying the russian threat, russia is a problem, china is a crisis. elizabeth: joining me now former assistant attorney general tom dupree, tom it's great to have you back on, the biden of administration wants to take on china but wants to take on climate change at the same time in joe biden is ready to deal with china in order to get a deal on climate change. how is that going to impact their national security issues. >> i think that's a very narrow road, the fact is it's very difficult to take the hardline that we need to take with china at the same time were pursuing ambitious goals that president biden is talked about in the area of climate change. i think ultimately they put the p

here with a reaction, former acting director of national intelligence ric grenell along with former lieutenanttsy mccoy. >> i always think that -- i went to pick up on your comment because i think it's really important to say covid has been a disaster for so many leaders, and i think it's okay to say we were trying our best, but what's happened with governor cuomo is a cover-up. he hasn't been transparent, and so i think what the public now wants to know is what's the real truth? you said one thing, then you set another, and we've had this area where we didn't know what was going on. so he can clear this up. he can just become transparent. he couldn't give us the memos he's talking about. he can have his staff brief. if we are not trying to play monday morning quarterback but what we are here for is transparency and to stop a cover-up because that's what's happening. >> sean: to the governor tell the truth today? >> absolutely not, one lie after another and as on the phone and communicated via email with his health department since last march when the scandal began, it was clearly a cover-up.

this should be widely condemned said the former acting director ric grenell. tone deaf said another sweet. i guess this is the decency we were all promised chimed in a record. another urged psaki to issue an apology. john kerry was all roasted on twitter, this time by newt gingrich over his use of a private jet while advancing climate change policies. former secretary of state called it the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle. gingrich respond suggesting kerry's decision was yet another symbol of the contempt for mere citizens. one rule for them, a different rule for us. meanwhile, rules of fair play were the theme of sharp questioning today on capitol hill of the biden administration's education secretary nominee. >> do you think it's fair to have boys running in a girls track meet? >> it's a legal responsibility to provide opportunities for students to participate in opportunities and this includes students who are transgender. >> reporter: the white house was questioned about whether mr. biden had already broken a

there's buzz that former acting director of national intelligence, ric grenell, might be interested in morning futures. listen. >> i think what we have to do is concentrate first on the signatures that we're gathering. i want to focus on long-term solutions in california. that's going to take five, six years for somebody to really reform this place. >> reporter: california's republican party donated $125,000 to the recall effort over the weekend. speaking of recalls, former new york governor george ptaki says the state should look at recalling governor andrew cuomo over the nursing home scandal. cuomo's top aide admitted her boss underreported the number of nursing home deaths by half. new york has no legal proceeding for ows of continuing an elected -- ousting an elected official midterm. ashley: earlier this hour we spoke to assemblyman mike lawler, who is calling for governor cuomo to be held accountable in the nursing home scandal. take a listen. >> we've seen an administration that secretly behind closed doors admitted that they did in fact cover up the you true number of deaths a

former director of national intelligence ric grenell on the potentialc intel threat that would justifytate until at least mid march in washington.

. >> opposing her past tweets and being too partisan, but these same people voted for ric grenell, who is probably more toxic on twitter, -- >> sexism? >> double standards? that depends on whom you ask. you made that argument when kristin nielsen, betsy devos, and ben carson were all nominated and later confirmed for the trump cabinet, each based withering criticism on the hill. critics say allegations of racism is something that democrats have used against republicans repeatedly, and in many cases, effectively. though it may not work this time around. >> i have never sued. i have taken on the federal government, but i have never sued any affiliation of nuns. >> but as california attorney general, he sued the federal government to reimpose a federal mandate under obamacare to force insurance providers to provide contraceptives, affecting groups like the little sisters of the poor. meanwhile, a brewing civil war within the g.o.p. >> do you believe president trump should be -- former president trump should be speaking at cpac this weekend? >> yes you should. >> congresswoman cheney? >> i

something that we'll get into with our former top ambassador to germany and intelligence official ric grenellstrategy the president is

will ric grenell throw his name in? i'll can him.s. is it enough to keep the restaurant business alive in the garden state? ed renzi sounds off on that in a moment. ♪ ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ stuart: okay. the market's losing a little bit of steam, still some green but not as much as earlier. the story of the morning is gamestop. robinhood removed all trading restrictions. the stock went to 83. now it's down -- well, not down, it's the at $70 a share with a 31% gain. so there's plenty of action but not like last week. >>> now this, new jersey raising indoor dining capacity to 35%. lifting the 10 p.m. curfew. ed renzi joins us right now. all right, ed, that doesn't seem like much to me. i don't think that's enough to keep the restaurants in new jersey afloat. what say you? >> it's not. it's ridiculous because it's a one-answer solution to a very broad problem. a 300-seat restaurant's different than a 10-seat restaurant. those restaurants are designed to have maximum occupancy and scaled that way. they have 35% occupancy but 100% of their costs. t

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the former acting director of national intelligence ric grenell was on the stage in cpac.ornia, they're frustrated with the fact that wealthy people are jumping the vaccine line, that out of 50 states there's one state that still doesn't have churches open, gyms open or eating inside and that's california. >> and if there's a recall election, will you run? >> first of all, we have to concentrate on the recall. we're not there yet. >> so no -- thanks so much. [laughter] >> you're a professional at reading through the media. is there an announcement set today followed by a smile? what do you think? >> yeah, pete, he's running. no he question about it. ric, i've met him. a very articulate guy, great teeth, they don't get discussed enough. people talk about oh, how a republican can never win in california. i remember a guy named arnold schwarzenegger, he won and won re-election within the last 10 years. the congressional races in 2020, four republicans flipped seats including two in orange county. when your leading politicians in california are pelosi and schiff and swalwell a

as you mentioned ric grenell on the ground. and mike pompeo scheduled to speak. how are they being received? >> well, this is a very pro trump crowd. no doubt about that. and when you go through the convention center all you see, maga hats and signs. you're not seeing people wearing t-shirts for other candidates they would support in 2024. the person who received the loudest applause and warm welcomeds that surprised me was texas senator ted cruz, he save a massive speech and a crowd with him. and an energetic crowd with his message. an indication of what kind of support he'll have going down the road in the next few months if not the next few years. there was talk about what happened and the trip to cancun last week, but this crowd in the ballroom was excited for him. there are conservatives, former members of congress, and people constantly on the news programs, but molly, for the most part most of the excitement certainly for president trump. >> yeah, it's fascinating to get just a glimmer, a little glimmer of what we may see here in the years to come and mark

ainsley: ric grenell, former acting dni, he warned against this nomination. >> he's a politician thatrmation, keeps the information away from the people and is having a hay day and let me just say, in sacramento, we have one party rule. we have a media that is afraid of the one-party rule because the democrats always win and they don't want to get on the wrong side. he has been unlearned in california with no checks and we really have a problem and senators need to understand, look at the california model right now. do you want the country to be turned into the california model? i can tell you from living here in this great state, no. ainsley: group of them from california that were on the list of nominees for these cabinet positions, kamala harris, super, super progressive, very progressive, very liberal, not a moderate, in fact, sued president trump i think more than 100 times i saw on fox news yesterday. so, you know, this is -- exactly. more of the progressive party really seeping in to washington. brian: yeah, it's a little scary, he's a lockdown artist and that's all we need in

opponent gushing to republicans running is it that many there's probably going to be a third as ric grenells that would really change california like tax cuts, a review of your renewable energy policies. open the estate up, d union guys, do something about the teachers union either heard any republican talking those terms, we gotta work with this bunch and work with that bunch, have you forgotten ronald reagan was a californian who said cut taxes and raise revenues. come on tom. >> don't look at me, what the next governor needs to do is to have rational energy policies, it is to have and change water policies which hold the state back dearly and make a job friendly environment, you know where it goes words welcome its welcome in texas and not that will come in california and if 70 wants to get elected in the state i'm 100% agreeable with you that they have to put jobs first and you can't put jobs first with tax increases. stuart: i think were in an agreement you need one candidate and you need to cut taxes and you need to be like ronald reagan. tom i think we reach the promised land of agre

ric grenell on the potential intel threat that would justify half a billion dollar price tag and the