schwartzman calls it the worst mistake of his life and now full circle.a remarkable journey they've take and again, every board to have a succession plan and at 72, he's going nowhere fast. liz: give me your homework and i would have done it. larry fink is the second oldest ceo. >> absolutely. jamie is in his late 60s and brian boost in energy handout is 64 -- brian monahan is 64, 70s. he's the oldest but i'm telling you, he liz: 27 is the nur 42. >> one guy said he acts 27. liz: he loves his job. he's skiing and doing all kinds of things. charlie, thank you. cryptoexchange coin base reporting owner earnings in moments after the bell and coin base up 8.5% and bitcoin not traded over $10 0* thousand mark sings february 4. what's going on here? # the camp of people investing in crypto and tests their nerves like a caffeine overdose and david is ceo of sound planning group. start with the crypto faithful, david. what do you tell them to buy if they're really drivers here? >> the real believers is bitcoin and i'm trading winnings like in the mag 7 and allocat

schwartzman -- >> no, big banks. liz: richard a fairbank of capital one and mario gabelli. 63 now. liz: okay. [laughter] let's get to tiktok. >> eat the hat, eat, eat the hat. liz we get it. >> i'm eating the -- you see, you got me going now. i can't stop. tiktok is, like, literally the story that never ends. you know, i think on "the claman countdown" i broke the story in 2020 the that trump was forcing tiktok to essentially be sold. he wanted them off u.s. apps. it never happened. it was at the end of his administration. trump won. and microsoft was in there, you know, essentially doing the due diligence, doing real deal work. they were trying to do a deal. that's 2020. and so now we're in 2025, and we're back to square one. again, this is a difficult deal, liz. it's not going to be cheap. remember, the chinese own it, that's why there's so much controversy. people think the chinese are stealing the data that that's on , that is scrubbing the data the that's on on the finish that people, essentially is users give as they use the algorithm. if there's lots of spy craft stu

it's not just bust, it's rouge -- buffet, roger pen ski, steve schwartzman, bob iger all atop ceo older than larry fink. charlie, put barbecue sauce on your hat. larry: hello, folks, welcome to kudlow. i'm larry kudlow. president trump lays out his plan for reciprocal tariffs and get this, stock markets loved it. senator kevin cross-claimer and david malpass and ej antoni break it all down for us in just a moment or two. finally the battle goes on over one big beautiful bill, newt gingrich waiting in the wings to talk about it. first up up hillary vaughn livet the white house. what's your interpretation of the white house? reporter: it's what president trump said in his mind it signals end of what he considered a fool and i shall stupid u.s. trade -- foolish and stupid u.s. trade policy to this points in the paint. he's also most excited about and thinking back to everything he signed in his first term to everything so far in the first three weeks of his second term, this is what he's most proud of. and most excited about. he says it's time for american businesses and workers to win and

one of my favorite conversations ever we did with jason schwartzman. do give it a listen.an absolute delight. moving on, everybody. elon musk answered questions at the oval office on tuesday to defend his government takeover after several judges intervened to slow him down. oh, and donald trump was there too. for more on this -- [ laughter ] it's time for "a closer look." [ cheers and applause ] ♪ we've talked about this a lot, and we'll keep talking about it. donald trump said during the campaign that his top priority was bringing down grocery prices. he said it was the mean reason he got elected, and he said prices would start coming down as soon as he took office. >> i won on groceries. it's a very simple word, groceries. and i won an election based on that. we're going to bring those prices way down. on day one, we will end inflation and make america affordable again. when i win, i will immediately bring prices down starting on day one. >> seth: okay, but he didn't specify day one of what. [ laughter ] "i will immediately bring prices down starting on day one of the 20