we would not have won florida if not for susie wiles. she has a safe pair of hands and a different white house staff and going forward than the contentious in the open fighting that we had, but there were all for good reasons, there were different policies. i'm not so sure-- and when you say steve bannon, president trump has been his own strategist. if you look at the way he managed his coalition, the way he put it together, the sweep how he managed in the transition and how he'll manage it going forward, president trump is a deal guy and he understands how to, i think, juggle opposing views and quite frankly, strong personalities. so, one thing i will note that many of the strongest personalities in president trump's orbit are not going into the white house, cory lewandowski, epstein, bannon, i see some pattern recognition there and i think all of those people are going to be very strong voices on the outside and whatever vertical they're in. i would look for president trump to have a lot of support inside the white house with a much mo

e question is, what will be the reality at susie wiles faces and will s be able to keep a tight grip with all of these personalities at trump is surrounding himself with? we don't have to look further than elon musk. she is saying she wants no stars but musk is literally trying to make himself a player not just in u.s. politics but in so many other nations. is that something that is helpful to donald trump and if not, can she control that? >> elon musk be wary, which one are we looking at? be wary elon musk. >> i agree. the people who are being paid and you can't fire, there are owls those people on their own who want to write books afterwards. she will have a tough time. >> let's admit going into this administration right now feels completely different than '16 and '17. there was a lot of infighting and tribalism and felt like survival a little bit. this is a lot smoother. the same hallmark of the campaign is now transferring to the administration. >> although elon musk is uncontrollable. you cannot control him. >> things are smoother because trump continues to make the party in his

we woke up and susie wiles had done an interview with axios. she says this about the first 1 hundred days. i have every hope the administration will not have the same number of attempts to put sand in the gears. we're to a fresh start. fine-tuning his policy agenda and planning for the first 1 hundred days. hitting the ground running and realizing that you don't have as much time as you think that you do is really important here. >> she realizes that. she was instrumental in the floor vote to make mike johnson house speaker. the screen shot of marjorie taylor greene's cell phone. she was making calls to members of congress to get mike johnson across the finish line and stands out to me donald trump junior said i think we're more ready this time than if we would have had a second term consecutively. what president trump has done over four years. he has had time to sit back about his personnel and be ready to go. >> bill: the whole comment about sand in the gears is very true for january, february, march of 2017 and later you were on his team as

that despite trump's chief of staff, susie wiles telling axios that during the transition, biden's chiefstaff, jeff zients, has been very helpful. he introduced me to the former chief of staff club and even hosted a dinner at his beautiful home. >> no problem with us. >> in a blistering "the washington post" op-ed, columnist matt bye writes in the long run we tend to remember one-term presidents more for their principled stands than for their ultimate failures. that won't be joe biden's legacy after a life time of noble service he will be be remembered as so many in his generation as a man who didn't know when to leave incoming trump team argues biden can damage his legacy even more if he keeps trying to federal rules and regulations between now and the 20th. >> this the bation simply trying to throw a sucker punch on president trump on his way out the door. this is going to be dough kind msnbc report two weeks we will get two biden speeches one about foreign policy and one about his 50 years in washington, d.c. there is no plans for an end of term press conference though. so, if you hav

it was the day after the november election that president-elect trump named susie wiles as his chief of staff. she will be the first woman in that post. talk about the importance of women working in politics that in less visible roles. guest: it is important. thank you for thinking about and pointing out the representation of women in unelected positions. it is something i've been thinking about when we think about congressional staff or consultants. those who inform the politics of our moment whose names we often don't know. when we think about women's political representation we think about power. power can be defined in lots of ways. one way is to think about, how much influence do women have on outcomes in these political spheres? someone like susie wiles, who obviously had a prominent role in the trump campaign, will now have a prominent role in the white house, that is a lot of influence. that is power. arguably more than some women in the u.s. senate. we have to look at all of the areas where women can gain political influence, power, and try to, i would argue, encourage women

first of all, there's reporting in axios today that jeff hosted a dinner at his house for susie wiles that there is some sort of -- >> trump's other chief of staff reince priebus was there. >> let's note that right away. but also, yes, during the transition to the biden administration from the trump administration, our experience was the trump team would not allow what are called landing teams, the groups that go in to the agencies ahead of the inauguration to start doing the planning in between the election and the inauguration to start gathering information, to understand where things stand. the trump team did not allow a lot of those landing teams to come in. and remember, we were in the midst of and coming out of a once in a generation pandemic. so we had significant public health challenges that the trump administration was not -- willfully -- willingly handing ot over to the biden team. the idea that trump would argue that biden is making this difficult, i don't think that carries a lot of water. i got to be honest with you. >> in that interview with susie wiles with axios which

you had susie wiles on the front end two days ago yesterday saying that the chief of staff, the current biden chief of staff, is doing everything very kind. and yet in the middle of all that, you have donald trump trying to gin up this notion to your point about grievance, saying that they're throwing everything at this to make this a very difficult transition. >> everybody's still out to get him. he just won an election. and then he questioned the election again, too. it was too big to rig. he said he won the election. he won the popular vote. he should be celebrating. he should be coming into washington. yes. he has very narrow majorities in the house and the senate. it's going to be difficult to get things done, but this should be someone who is upbeat and happy to come in. but he is still full of grievances because it is his organizing principle. but there are a lot of lies in there. that was a trailer that was an hour long trailer for the next four years, in that he tells a lot of lies. he hedges, he exaggerates and hypes a lot of things, but he also made a ton of news there. you'r

susie wiles did an interview. this is rare. she gave it to axios, talked about a lot of things. what will the hallmark of the west wing be? wiles, the west wing staff is a mix of new and veterans. many young, all prepared to work punishing hours. to my core i believe in teamwork. anyone who cannot be counted on to be collaborative and focused on shared goals is not working in the west wing. more from that. if you've seen it, trey, what is your impression? >> good for her. the first administration was plagued and back biting. people taking credit for his victory. she has a tough job. the margin in the senate is bigger than the margin in the house. the problem in the senate is the the 60 vote threshold which john thune will not get rid of. they really have -- i understand the senator wants to do it in two pieces. they want the border first and then taxes. i just think history tells you, you get one shot, remember, bill and dana, republicans couldn't even repeal obamacare. remember they all ran on it but couldn't do it. first the freedom caucus brought it down and then john mccain

i've got to be honest with you. >> in that interview with susie wiles with axios, which is notable becauseten hear from her on the record or o'on camera, she's trump's incoming e ing chief of staff. david-u know her. she had a comment that stood out to me where she was saying i don't welcome people who want to work solo or be a star. she said my team and i will not tolerate backbiting, second guessing inappropriately or drama. that would be remarkably different than the early days especially of the trump administration round one when there was such infighting among his senior staff. >> yeah. i mean, i think what else is she supposed to say? of course she doesn't want people who are backstabbers and trying to get the limelight and be there for the wrong reasons. they want people who are loyalists. i think that's a good sentiment for her to have going in. but it will be interesting to see if she can execute on it. obviously i will give credit where credit's due. this was a well- run campaign. they won. and everything i've heard about her is she is a true professional. if she's able to mainta

it got so bad this week anticipating the next four years and coming chief of staff susie wiles and ao to cabinet companies. no member of this incoming administration on transition speaks to the united states or president elect himself. all intended nominees should refrain from any public social media posts without prior approval of the incoming white house counsel. my i'm not, i think it's good, healthy and real these guys and these women are winners for suffer from low self-esteem. what is wrong with smart people clashing on consequential complex issues? we are tired of scripted rehearsed political jargon, we are done with that. among the people who agree with me, stephen h smith. not a republican but a fan of debate what he sees a big difference between the way republicans do it the way democrats handled it. >> at least in the trump administration, it will be allowed. it's not an ideology alone. it's not their feelings alone. if the fact that you refuted what they said, part of their party, cancel culture taken. if you are not part of it, it was ostracism and ultimately hate and fe

the second trump term is strictly business, susie wiles, they called her the ice lady, has no tolerancee wanted to have a no drama zone at the white house, she is promising and will not be the same chaotic self-sabotaging like it was the first time. she told staffers i do not welcome people who want to work solo or be a star, my team and i will not tolerate backbiting, second guessing, or drama. these are counterproductive to the mission. trump is nominated a bunch of fox news hosts, they should be fun. young staffers are being told to get ready to work punishing the hours, the kind of hours at prime time staff work, 7:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. this is a stark contrast to the biden white house, they call it 2:00 on a tuesday. the incoming trump administration wants no sand in the gears this time, from the inside or outside. the resistance has been broken, only a few dead ends like george marchand who will announce he was sentenced trump for the so-called hush money case this friday. no jail time, he just wants to get one last whack at the bad boy. the resistance will regroup eventually, d

susie wiles ran a tremendous campaign. tight knit, efficient operation.l bring it to the white house. she is simply spelling it out on running an organization. musk and trump have their own relationship that they are going to have to work out as they go along. how is doge going to interact, inviting musk to talk to world leaders we seen reports on. is that going to continue or change? that is all thing between them. in terms of oligarch and stuff, how many da's in this country received money from george sorros. a lot. >> come on. >> how much money has he spent on democratic politicians over his career? the man is ancient it is probably a ton. now, let's focus on the question. one point he raised was based on the personal relationship of trump and elon musk. paraphrasing here of course. he needs to meet with world leaders. that is the opposite of what is supposed to happen for elected official from the billionaire perspective. i am not a billionaire but i would assume they have a professional view of what should meet with world leaders. well, look. the bes

we would not have won florida if not for susie wiles. she has a safe pair of hands and a different white house staff and going forward than the contentious in the open fighting that we had, but there were all for good reasons, there were different policies. i'm not so sure-- and when you say steve bannon, president trump has been his own strategist. if you look at the way he managed his coalition, the way he put it together, the sweep how he managed in the transition and how he'll manage it going forward, president trump is a deal guy and he understands how to, i think, juggle opposing views and quite frankly, strong personalities. so, one thing i will note that many of the strongest personalities in president trump's orbit are not going into the white house, cory lewandowski, epstein, bannon, i see some pattern recognition there and i think all of those people are going to be very strong voices on the outside and whatever vertical they're in. i would look for president trump to have a lot of support inside the white house with a much mo

susie wiles' interview. >> i love the painting over your right shoulder, i can't stop staring at it andg about all the things it reminds me of. hope from above. >> thank you. i'm going to send you a link to the painter. >> that's very nice. thank you. >>> coming up later in the broadcast, former house speaker kevin mccarthy is going to join us to talk about trump's legislative agenda. we will talk about throwing it all in one bill or more. that's coming up at 8:30 a.m. eastern time. a conversation you don't want to miss. "squawk box" coming right back after this. >>> welcome back. this is "squawk box." let's look at the markets on this monday morning. in the premarket you will see there are some green arrows. dow futures indicated up by close to 140 points after being down on friday. s&p was up by 1.25% on friday and it's indicated up another 40 points this morning. then you have the nasdaq which was a very strong performer on friday, up by 1.75%, it's best performance since probably two months. you are looking at the nasdaq indicated up by over 200 points this morning. here is a list a

the floor of georgia represented marjorie taylor greene on the phone with incoming chief of staff susie wiles. mbers later approved a package of rules that will govern the house and committees for the next two years. the resolution includes an increase in the threold for requesting the removal othe speaker from one to nine republican members,liminating the office of diversity and inclusion, and allowing committees to permit electronic voti. more live coverage of the new 119th congress on members return on c-span. now we take you back to the beginning of today's activities in the u.s. house. >> for the meeting of the 119th congress of the united states, the house will come to order. [gavel pounds] the prayer will be offered by chaplain. >> would you pray with me? gather us together sovereign got from the north and south, from the east and west, from the right in your mercy, consecrate the work you have called us to do in this 119th congress. as we convened to establish and uphold the laws of this nation may we devote our hearts to you and stretch out our hands to receive your instruction. with

another interesting political person on the list is susie wiles, who makes her debut at number 72 onknow, somebody like susie wiles takes on this campaign. i think what she brought to donald trump's campaign is steady leadership. the chaos and disorganization we'd heard in years past, past elections, went away. she's worked for republicans across the idealogical spectrum. i think it is very interesting to see what steadiness -- >> she will be very interesting to watch. i totally agree. fascinated with that. maggie, there's someone unexpected in the number 100 spot. tell us about her. >> so excited to tell you about her. she is caitlin clark. >> yay. >> she broke the ncaa scoring record for men and women earlier this year. she has driven unprecedented attention to women's basketball, women's sports as a whole. we spoke with coach dawn staley earlier this year. i asked dawn, i said, women have been playing at a high level for so many decades. why has it taken until now for women sports to have a breakthrough moment? coach staley told us, sometimes you need a unifier, and that unifier i

there was a great interview with susie wiles in axios today.mocrats who have to work with her and work with the president. understand where there's room for disagreement. let that disagreement be principled and constructive. where it has to be loud, that it be loud. four years ago today, i did not think this was a day we would be seeing. the great thing about politics is all of us know -- having worked in the white house, everything is possible. it warms my heart to say i didn't think i would be saying to greg gutfeld a father for the first time on january 6, 2025. >> there is something in there, trust me. he said i don't care about joe biden anymore. that is the truth. if you watch the movie -- i watched a lot of movies when i was away. if you watch the movie "die hard" you see john mclean meet hans gruber. hans gruber is dead. imagine after the credits you have a scene, a sobering look at how hans gruber's family is dealing with the loss. that is joe biden. nobody needs that scene. it was a big win. no one cares. no one wants to be in the los

tom, this report from susie wiles and where she is basically telling trump's nominees to stay off ofial media ahead of their senate confirmation hearings, given that donald trump is kinda sorta like the sing of social media trolling, where do you think this is coming from? >> if you have a bunch of controversial cabinet nominees, you don't want them in the public eye every day. one of the things i think that has always worked to the advantage of trump and his -- the team around him is that they -- at certain times they go quiet and let people fill in the blanks about what they think trump is saying or what they think issis people his people w his administration would be about. the only thing that can ruin that is when someone actually says something. so i think what they are doing, and i think it's actually smart to be honest, is they don't want pete hegseth or tulsi gabbard to say something that will remind people that they are pete hegseth and tulsi gabbard. they want all of that previous time as public figures to fade away and let them create themselves again as serious nominees f

donald trump, susie wiles, a bunch of folks interjected. mike johnson cannot stand on his own. he is dependent on donald trump. he's dependent on elon musk. he's dependent on all the billionaires that fund all these candidates to get their agenda through. so it's going to be a very difficult few months for mike johnson. we have in democrats a united party. they have a slim majority. more slim than the last congress. and we stopped a lot of terrible things. and so we're feeling energetic. we understand the challenge ahead and the donald trump challenge, but we feel we can stop a lot of bad things. >> leader jeff ris pledged to, quote, find bipartisan common ground wherever and whenever possible. are there any common ground areas you can identify right now where you and republicans, you, and republicans could work together? >> i mean, look, first, i think obviously leader jefferies is right. if there are issues we can work together on, that's great. i'm not optimistic that republicans want to do anything to work together with democrats on. and the republican idea of bipartisanshi

including susie wiles who is pack representative in the -- and kash patel a was a designated liaison between the former trump administration and the national archives. for those reasons, i would be interested in seeing it. think how much we learned from the mueller report with respect to all the witnesses and the documentation back and forth between people. that's what i want to see even if we never get classified information. >> that's a good point. let's go back to the sentencing. walk me through what happens tomorrow at 9:30. >> when we walk in ski, we will see a screen where todd blanche is with his client, donald trump, at mar-a-lago. >> maybe they choose a cool background. >> maybe. rudy giuliani was instructed to get rid of his american flag. that was a joke kristy was making. we will hear from the prosecution and then the defense has an opportunity to speak. he will give trump himself an opportunity to speak. what is crazy is, i have bennett two trials were trump had an opportunity to speak. one is a witness in the other he wanted to make a statement and he got into skirmishe

this team led by susie wiles from a top-down structure is really focused not just on getting people inlace by getting the right people in place. >> tomorrow, trump's nominees begins the confirmation process. there are reports that a paperwork problem is holding up the confirmation hearing for tulsi gabbard. we have reached out to get more on that. trump's pick for the national intelligence seems to have adapted her views. tulsi gabbard says she supports the surveillance program that allows the u.s. to gather foreign intelligence on noncitizens. that is the event that senator shelley more says really help you gain more support prayer. >> she has explained i think a lot of some of the misinformation that has been out there. she is getting ready to testify before a committee. will see how she does. >> there are going to be tough questions. we are told of these nominees are prepared and ready for that. tulsi gabbard does still not have a date for her confirmation hearing. it really has been the center of the political universe. there are so many politicians spotted coming and going like jo

. >> on this idea is interesting because we have no reporting this morning that susie wiles is trying of people who have access to donald trump in the white house in terms of the number of assistance to the president to make fewer people, how could that make a difference in terms of the new trump administration? >> they all have his cell number. that's when he's at his most self-referential is when he's calling members of congress and having these chats and trying to influence policy. we know one day it's a big beautiful bill and the next day it's two bills. the fact of the matter is trump is putting this on biden so when he gets off to a slow start let's not forget it wasn't long ago they said the inauguration wanted to have one of these big bills done and now they are talking april and we know it's going to be a be september before they actually get it done. this is a way for him to pass the buck and say i would've done great except for biden. >> i want to ask about pardons. trump repeatedly promised to pardon january 6 the writers and now a former proud boys founder, leader is aski

including susie wiles who is pac representative in the indictment, including kash patel who at one point in time was the designated liaison between the trump administration and the national archives. >> that's a great point. >> i would be really interested in seeing it because think about how much we learned from the mueller report with respect to all the witnesses and the documentation and the back and forth between people. that's what i really want to see here. >> that's a really good point. now let's go back to -- sorry, i'm keeping a lot of balls in the air today. let's go back to the sentencing. just walk me through what happens tomorrow at 9:30. >> tomorrow at 9:30 when we walk in, we'll see a screen in all likelihood where todd blanche is with his client, donald trump, at mar-a-lago. >> maybe they choose a cool zoom background. >> maybe. >> the american flag. >> yeah. rudy giuliani was instructed by a judge the other day to get rid of his american flag background. what we'll hear from first is hear from the prosecution. then the defense will have an opportunity to speak. and then

in a new interview, president-elect trump's incoming white house chief of staff susie wiles said that her team will not tolerate drama. good luck when your boss is president gossip girl. [ laughter ] even andy cohen thinks he's messy. [ laughter ] in a new interview, former republican congressman matt gaetz said that he has spoken with president-elect trump about possibly running for governor of florida. and trump shared some advice, specifically set your venmo to private. [ laughter ] president biden announced yesterday that his grand daughter, naomi, has given birth to a baby boy, and he couldn't have announced it at a more inappropriate time. >>>> my son ves out here in -- in fact, we just got the notification yesterday -- today, it appears that maybe it's still standing. we're not sure. but the good news is i'm a great grandfather as of today. [ laughter ] >> seth: maybe give people a minute to grieve -- [ laughter ] before chiming in with, "but hey, something cool happened to me." [ laughter ] you're clearly a great grandpa because you say whatever you want at any time with no fi

susie wiles, the incoming chief of staff, says that jeff sessions, the outgoing chief of staff, has been very helpful. trump's incoming middle east envoy offered up a very similar story. >> we're just very collaborative together. >> we're i mean, this is a tense. negotiation, so no one has pride of authorship. >> we are totally outcome oriented. >> he's got a solid team, and i and i appreciate it that they are allowing us to be collaborative. >> but the president elect himself suggests that the transition is a disaster, and he is none too pleased with the current president. >> we are inheriting a difficult situation from the outgoing administration, and they're trying everything they can to make it more difficult. and i've been disappointed to see the biden administration's attempt to block the reforms of the american people, and that they voted for president biden's actions yesterday on offshore drilling, banning offshore drilling will not stand. i will reverse it immediately. this was a biden fiasco that he got. he that should have never happened so what he's talking about there a seri

his chief of staff, susie wiles, however, said the opposite to axios. i am old enough to remember that the last trump administration didn't exactly make it smooth with the incoming biden administration. just to note that as trump was contesting the election results. um, but but what do you make of that, larry? >> i hope people remember the history or are reminded of the history because donald trump cooperated with the incoming administration, the incoming biden administration, in 2020. less than any modern president has with his successor. they didn't provide the the funding that was available for the transition until weeks after they were supposed to. of course, trump himself didn't have biden in to the oval office the way that president obama had had trump into the oval office. and believe me, obama wasn't, i'm sure, very happy to have have trump in. but he did it because it was the right thing to do. and then trump didn't even attend his successor's inauguration. it was it was really, uh, actions that are difficult to forget and ought to be remembere

it was the day after the november election that president-elect trump named susie wiles as his chief she will be the first woman in that post. talk about the importance of women working in politics that in less visible roles. guest: it is important. thank you for thinking about and pointing out the representation of women in unelected positions. it is something i've been thinking about when we think about congressional staff or consultants. those who inform the politics of our moment whose names we often don't know. when we think about women's political representation we think about power. power can be defined in lots of ways. one way is to think about, how much influence do women have on outcomes in these political spheres? someone like susie wiles, who obviously had a prominent role in the trump campaign, will now have a prominent role in the white house, that is a lot of influence. that is power. arguably more than some women in the u.s. senate. we have to look at all of the areas where women can gain political influence, power, and try to, i would argue, encourage women to think

it was the day after the november election that president-elect trump named susie wiles as his chief she will be the first woman in that post. talk about the importance of women working in politics that in less visible roles. guest: it is important. thank you for thinking about and pointing out the representation of women in unelected positions. it is something i've been thinking about when we think about congressional staff or consultants. those who inform the politics of our moment whose names we often don't know. when we think about women's political representation we think about power. power can be defined in lots of ways. one way is to think about, how much influence do women have on outcomes in these political spheres? someone like susie wiles, who obviously had a prominent role in the trump campaign, will now have a prominent role in the white house, that is a lot of influence. that is power. arguably more than some women in the u.s. senate. we have to look at all of the areas where women can gain political influence, power, and try to, i would argue, encourage women to think

you know, everyone said, oh, susie wiles, you know, first woman chief of staff, she's the adult in the room this is the adult that couldn't keep laura loomer, a 911 truther on the plane on 911. this is not an adult. this is a, you know, facilitator. this is an enabler. so there are no grown ups there. this is, you know, not you know, so nobody can pretend to do this. this is just all a shakedown of everybody. and. exactly the middle finger, another one, the pit. hegseth the weekend anchor of fox has been nominated, couldn't even get a weekday and yeah, and he he had a video already that i, i sent to a senator who's interested in certainly defense issues. and it said he said one time on tv, we should just clear d.o.d. out by just asking, you know what are the some something to the effect of what are the last numbers in your social security number? and if it's like even numbers or say it was something to this effect of it's three, five and seven, you're gone like just basically go through and clear out. everybody. so this guy, you know, who's been a fox weekend anchor and who has made al

are photos from the floor of marjorie taylor greene on the phone with woodhouse chief of staff susie wiles while we are in this vote, we will show you speaker johnson's remarks after being reelected. [applause] speaker johnson: thank you. thank you so much. thank you, leader jeffries. all of our treasured colleagues in the house. i am grateful for this nomination. i am for the confidence this chamber has placed in me. it is the great honor of my life to serve this body with all of you. these are difficult days in our home state of louisiana where i come from. no about the terrorist attack in new orleans and it has shaken our state. people are reeling from that attack. it took the lives of 14 innocent people and injured dozens more. i wanted to begin appropriately today. i would ask you all to join me in moment of silence for the victims of this horrific act. thank you. thank you for that. i believe in giving honor where honor is due all of us do. . be here this time. she does make it last time. it happened a little sudden. kelly, would you stand up in the galley? thank you. [applause] we h

another interesting political person is susie wiles, who makes her debut at 72 on the list.ody like susie wiles takes on this campaign, and i think what she brought to donald trump's campaign is steady leadership, the chaos and disorganization that we have heard in years past, past elections went away. she's worked for republicans across the ideological spectrum. i think it's very interesting to see what steadiness -- >> she will be very interesting to watch. i totally agree with you. fascinated with that. maggie, there's someone unexpected in the number 100 spot. tell us about her. >> i'm so excited to tell you about her. she is caitlin clark. she broke the ncaa scoring record for men and women earlier this year, and she has driven unprecedented attention to women's basketball, women's sports as a whole. we spoke with coach dawn staley earlier this year, and i said, women have been playing at a high level for so many decades, why has it taken until now for women's sports to have a breakthrough moment, and coach staley told us, sometimes you need a unifier, and that unifier

>> i wrote in axios on monday that his incoming chief of staff was his campaign co-manager susie wileshim through thick and thin. she has the understanding of letting trump be trump and trying to execute on his vision and hiring people who are loyal to him, loyal to his mission and believe in getting things done for him and not undermining him. that's why, for instance, we haven't seen what we would have seen in the past, which would have been anonymous staff leaks saying, oh, my god, this guy is crazy. there's no way we're going to do that. not hearing that anymore. that's one of the reasons that we have to take the greenland, the canada and panama pieces more seriously is because his staff does. >> marc, i want to thank you for joining us this morning. we will see what happens. in the meantime i'm sure we will talk a lot about it. thanks. >>> coming up, the state of alaska is suing the biden administration over oil drilling leases. details after the break. >>> later, more on the comments by nvidia's jensen huang that are dragging down quantum computing stocks right now. we will be ri

see a much stronger bench in the sense of the ability of trump and the trump transition team and susie wilesstaff to get folks in who are really speaking the message of trump and trump 2.0. in 1.0, you saw the mechanism in washington really working to influence trump. now trump has a very strong position and has a whole team of folks who were there to push that position, to push the agenda. annmarie: beyond the ability to get these various cabinet members confirmed, does it speak to a cohesion within the republican party that will benefit trump as he tries to do things like pass one big beautiful bill and a slim majority? does it help these are getting through? does it speak to that ability? jennifer: absolutely. we have seen in the transition period. mar-a-lago is a very busy place right now. not just with ceos from the tech industry. you see washington basically flying down to mar-a-lago. he has been entertaining members of congress, senators, entire caucuses and factions of the house of representatives. i think going forward, especially within the first six months you will see a very hand