again, you can't be pro-worker and be for russell vought. he has spent years, years pushing for trillions in cuts to america's social safety net, something that would cause immediate, severe harm to tens of millions of american citizens. we all know mr. vought's history very well. we know his awful and radical record from the first trump admini administration. even after leaving government, mr. vought was the go-to authority for the most radical elements of the house gop, advising them on budget that punished america's families, seniors, kids, law enforcement and others with draconian, draconian budget cuts. his budget cuts weren't just snipping at the edges. they cut to the keep. tomorrow, when vought testifies before the committee, americans will be reintroduced to his outl outlandishly extreme agenda. if project 2025 caused your stomach to turn during the election, mr. vought would be a nightmare scenario. if you're among america's works class or from low-income families or middle-class families working marred to make -- hard to make ends

you were on with russell vought, my suggestion is that it default. you guys keep playing around, putting people in hostage situations and you know the outcome. number one. you can't trust these guys in the republican situation because you have kushner who came away with a $2 billion. also we are not questioning the validity of some of these congresspeople. george santos was arrested, and somebody paid his bail, he says let it default. >> guest: no one wants that. the argument which is going to let that happen to have implications. we are here to say what is default in what is not? and it is not the position that i support to suggest we are going to not pay what has been a hallmark of our country and our economy to have treasuries that always paid in full. .. and i find it very social security check in june joe biden revenue line a lot. but holly balances where 30 you talking pa budget was here -- putting somebody in jail on the land. housing is a process of so of along the office and. department of health and human services will prevent the cost and

and russell vought, director of office of budget. he will personally ask mr.ohn ratcliffe questions and he knows what they are going to ask about marco rubio, too. watch. >> i heard john's hearing, he's been director of national intelligence, we agree cia is vital for our country, we have to get back to its roots and focused on core mission, not things like climate change or whether an african country will pass gay rights legislation. i'm confident john will get it done and advance interest of our own citizen and our own economy, not those of other countries. we wish every country well, we have to put our own citizens first. re >> ainsley: arabia shrine circus plans to target china. top priority is united states and he's a hawk on foreign policy. >> brian: kristi noem's confirmation hearing is postponed because of paperwork is issue. doug collins next week because of paperwosh -- paperwork issues. >> ainsley: you don't want to be first one, i rather be at the end. >> brian: or easy ones like doug burgum go first. they will ask him burglar -- >> ainsley: what i

the doge brothers and russell vought and scott bessent have to do budget and tax cutting. >> yes, theyld have done it long ago, that is what omb is set up to do give you tools to find out where the waste abuse and fraufraud is, with elon musk and vivek ramaswamy they will find a lot of areas to cut. that wonderful. i was first chief economist at the omb, you were 10 years later. we shared that position, this is to -- that is really doable, we don't confuse is bringing down inflation is great, that will bring down inflationary premium on interest rates that would be wonderful. ed by ebiden a has done a really bad job, and expected real return on capital will rise once we get the economy growing, we want higher returns to capitol and higher activity and growth, it will raise real rate of return but a higher real rate of return mines there are more goods and services available. that means lower inflation, that means lower inflation premium, we need to get inflation under control, i would look at powell and fed, we do not, that is one of 7 positions of the political power we do not have co

. >> brian: pam bondi, sean ratcliffe, credit wright, russell vought.pointing out bondi two days of hearings. you think they will go for her and try to look at her florida record? where is she vulnerable in their eyes? >> i think she could face some of the tougher questioning of the group today. first of all with marco rubio long time senator, if anybody is going to get kind of a love fest it could be him. so it would be interesting to see if democrats are going to really go after him very much. as far as pam bondi is concerned, obviously a lot of republicans look at her and say boy, we're really glad we don't have matt gaetz. we're pretty happy about this. i think you might see democrats go after bondi on the 2020 election issue in the sense that she has supported a number of president trump's claims about the 2020 election and democrats love to re-litigate. >> brian: i know. >> not popular with voters but they like to do it. >> brian: i think ratcliffe will sail through. sailed through director of national intelligence and now cia. they all agree chin

something like the schedule f that's being proposed by russell vought for -- >> host: you've raise a couple interesting points. what to make sure i guess can respond. go ahead and tragic the cato institute spent the cato institute for our entire existence. we've never been the charles koch foundation or institute. charles koch was one of our founders so obviously there is a connection there, he's a member, he was a member of our board is a member of our board but that's not an accurate description of our history. in terms of the issues of dependency on employer, they are not endangered. they can change jobs. about half of all the workers who are starting a new job, and implement in the united states were people who transferred from another h-1b employer. so you can transfer. it is more difficult and that is an issue that i completely agree with. that's why we need to speed up the process for people to get green cards. people don't mind that they are thankful for their employer who sponsored them. they don't want to be stuck with him forever and have their career put on hold indefinit

. >> the night before president bush came russell vought, i was having a heart attack at one point because my shoulder was in a lot of pain. my office was like a big meeting room with one decision after another. this was about 1030, 11:00 at night. i went for a walk. i remember saying, god, i can't have a heart attack now. just not time. it's not going to happen now. if you want to give me a heart attack, it's going to happen later. and i saw the river. it gave me a tremendous sense of stability. there are a lot of things i don't know how to do, but i know how to run emergencies because i've done so many of them. and i said to myself, this is what i know how to do. i know how to do this. >> did you have anything in some way that, you know, some sense of religious faith that god put me here for this moment? >> i don't know god's will and i don't know god's plan, but i did feel, um, i did feel that in that sense, i was i was in the place that i guess i had to be. >> this part changed my life. >> superman. crazy. just that simple little thing over the horse. that is tough because i can feel h

secretary of transportation, chris write secretary of energy and russell vought director of office of management and budget. so this management and budget, yes. this is all going on right now. we're all over them as they happen and here is what has gone on for rubio, one of the six trump nominees facing a senate confirmation hearing today. let's take a look. >> we're waiting patiently for that. okay. he spoke about ukraine and i can tell you what he said. what vladimir putin has done is not acceptable. this war has to end. i think it should be the official policy of the united states that we want to see it end. now i want to bring in brent sadler to the conversation along with jonathan and kerri. what he is saying is it will take bold diplomacy and that his hope is that it could begin with some kind of a cease-fire. what is your take? >> happy new year, and good to be back on your show. i think also in his comments the senator's comments said you have to deal in reality. only so much you can change on the battlefield given the relative power disposition and sizes of these two countrie

does she separate herself from donald trump and another one to watch to russell vought who is who will be the head of a very powerful budget committee in the white house that could budget office in the white house, the budget office essentially helps determine how to deal with regulations, pushes forward the policy agenda on spending cuts and the like. he has pushed very conservative policies, and democrats will be targeting him. but at the moment, it's uncertain whether any of these will stumble. any of these nominations will lead to any opposition from republicans, which is why the trump team is very confident that these nominees will be confirmed. maybe not on day one, but soon thereafter unless something changes at these hearings this week, jim. >> and manu, i mean, one of trump's very controversial cabinet picks, rfk jr.. what do we know about his confirmation hearing? >> it has not been scheduled yet, jim, but he has been trying to assuage republicans concerns and democratic concerns about his views about vaccines. of course, he has falsely said in the past, linking childhood aut

russell vought voight. he's trump's nominee. he served in that government office in 2020 for trump.is also one of the architects now of project 2025, which trump said he didn't know anything about. he didn't know the people who wrote it. what does this tell you this nomination tell you about the next four years? chuck? >> well, i think you heard a lot about project 2025, and it's the old okey doke. if anybody who has been around for 10s knows, he's like, i don't know nothing about that old boy or nothing about this project, but guess what? we're going to hire him to pretty much run the entire government. this is one of the most powerful positions in america because they oversee so much of the budget, so much of the infrastructure of our government. and i'm not here to defend every aspect of everything that the government does. i'm as big a critic as anybody else, especially when it comes to tax time. but this is the old okey doke. if he knew who this fellow was, he knows what project 2025 is. i think the american people are going to get a rude awakening when they go seeing what this

russell vought me. >> john avlon russell, oh, yes, i will.i know it was real being asked to speak. >> we will all miss him. but as has been said, and probably will be said over and over again, his legacy will live on forever. for something had to be done. we got through it i love. >> all of the. i love it. it's the greatest power of love for. you. can't love. and honor the power. >> that day of his funeral was so beautiful. >> everybody sang. we got up and sang. stevie was singing alicia keys. everybody. freddie jackson, everybody was there. and we made it a celebration. >> and the greatest. >> power is. to love. i'm talking about love. >> everybody has something that they're supposed to do in this life. my uncle had a job to do while he was here, and he did it. he fulfilled his obligation to this earth. you can't think of that man without thinking about love. thank you for coming out and celebrating this awesome occasion with us. the store will be here for many, many moons for many, many people to come back. and when they see his name, they'

russell vote appeared in 2023 where he talked about the implications of raising the debt limit on federal spending. >> "washington journal" continues. >> host: we continue our conversation of the debt limit and several spending with russ voughtonform white house budget director during trump administration currently the president of the center for renewing democracy here first for folks are not familiar with the center what's the mission? when and why did you start it? >> guest: the center for renewing america is we try to keep

again, you can't be pro-worker and be for russell vought. he has spent years, years pushing for trillions in cuts to america's social safety net, something that would cause immediate, severe harm to tens of millions of american citizens. we all know mr. vought's history very well. we know his awful and radical record from the first trump admini administration. even after leaving government, mr. vought was the go-to authority for the most radical elements of the house gop, advising them on budget that punished america's families, seniors, kids, law enforcement and others with draconian, draconian budget cuts. his budget cuts weren't just snipping at the edges. they cut to the keep. tomorrow, when vought testifies before the committee, americans will be reintroduced to his outl outlandishly extreme agenda. if project 2025 caused your stomach to turn during the election, mr. vought would be a nightmare scenario. if you're among america's works class or from low-income families or middle-class families working marred to make -- hard to make ends