thune: all right, here's to vermont. i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. thune: i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today it stand adjourned until 10:30 a.m. on wednesday, february 5. that following the prayer and pledge, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be deemed expired, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, morning business be closed, and the senate proceed to executive session and resume executive calendar number 11, and that at 11:30 a.m. all time be expired on the turner nomination. finally, that if any nominations are confirmed during wednesday's session the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table and the president be immediately notified of the senate's action. the presiding officer: without o

senator thune: thank you, mr. chairman. i certainly cannot fill three minutes with words of wisdom, but i can certainly fill them with words. let me just say, congratulations, mr. let nick. welcome. we are excited to have you nominated for this important position. your powerful and compelling life story truly is an example of the american success story in someone who has been able to live and pursue and experience the american dream in the midst of a lot of adversity along the way. thank you for being here to share your skill and experience in a job that requires a lot of that. i expect you will touch on this today. one of the issues we work a lot on his spectrum. obviously, we need more spectrum, licensed and unlicensed. you will oversee the national tell -- national telecommunications administration, and i look forward to working with you to ensure that the federal government is using spectrum efficiently in a way that addresses the needs we have for more commercial use in both license and unlicensed technologies. i expec

thune: senator thune. sen. thune:i think we have covered already the issue of spectrum but we look forward to working with you on that. that is a critically important issue for our economy and leadership in the world. i want to come back quickly to the broadband equity access and deployment program. i didn't vote for the legislation that created this program, but it provided over 42 billion dollars to expand access to rural areas. as you know the program has yet to connect a single household. in the biden administration included a number of requirements not envisioned by the congress so the program, including climate change mandates, rate regulation, onerous labor requirements, and other concerning items. she's why they have not signed anybody up. there is not a single telecom in south dakota that serves a lot of underserved areas that could use the program, because of all of these mandates and conditions they put on it. will you commit to working with states to remove these requirements so that funds can go to

thune: senator thune. sen. thune:i think we have covered already the issue of spectrum but we look forward to working with you on that. that is a critically important issue for our economy and leadership in the world. i want to come back quickly to the broadband equity access and deployment program. i didn't vote for the legislation that created this program, but it provided over 42 billion dollars to expand access to rural areas. as you know the program has yet to connect a single household. in the biden administration included a number of requirements not envisioned by the congress so the program, including climate change mandates, rate regulation, onerous labor requirements, and other concerning items. she's why they have not signed anybody up. there is not a single telecom in south dakota that serves a lot of underserved areas that could use the program, because of all of these mandates and conditions they put on it. will you commit to working with states to remove these requirements so that funds can go to

what does john thune thune do? allow him to move forward with that? will he block that? will it be a point of tension? will trump simply drop it? we know trump doesn't like to drop things, but he may have to if he doesn't have the votes. all right. this is going to be a consequential few days coming up and coming up for us. midterm elections are usually painful for the party in power. so what do the republican leader in charge of keeping the house in gop control tell me about next year? my new reporting is next. >> in the lead with jake tapper, weekdays at four on cnn. >> okay, everyone, our. >> mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition. >> for strength and. >> energy. >> ensure with 27 vitamins and minerals, nutrients for immune health, and ensure complete with. 30g of protein. >> if i had to start college again from scratch, i probably wouldn't have made it. university of phoenix made the process of transferring my credits seamless and simple. life's too short to repeat the work you've already done. >> what's up? >> you seem kind of sluggish today. >> things a

are this is why senator thune is the leader. welcome, thank you, export to the world and we've made huge bipartisan progressrl on that front. not everything has been done. we all know that and we want to continue america's lead and competitive edge. one way we've done thatt and senator campwell asked you about this is about groundbreaking investments in chips and semi conductors despite being the land of 10,000 likes i've actually never called about fish in the commerce department. but i have talked about these issues and so i just want to follow up on her question and just secretary raymundo has done admirable work. >> it's vital to bring semi conducting manufacturing to the united states of america. the chips act was an excellent camp down payment to begin that process. we need to study it, but we need to make sure that you get the benefit of the bargain and domestic manufacturing of semi conductors happens in america. >> got it. but are you going to keep operating this because the senator mentioned there are funds that have t

thune: mr. president, last week the senate processed two members of president trump's energy team. we confirmed lee zeldin to be we confirmed lee zeldin to be ... burgum was elected to be secretary of the interior and this week we will vote on chris wright to be secretary of e energy. i talked about how implementing an all-of-the-above strategy. i spoke about the our abundance of resources and the need to leverage those resources. one of those is america's ability to innovate, the knowledge and capabilities we have to expand the realm of possibility. some of that work is being done in my state at the sanford underground lead facility. others are being done at universities also in partnership with the federal government. it is a big part of the work of the energy government and it is what chris wright has spent his life doing. mr. wright calls himself, and i quote, a science geek, turned energy nerd, turned lifelong energy entrepreneur. end quote. if confirmed, mr. wright will be notable among se

so we'll see what thune has to say when he comes back to the senate this afternoon. you can be sure we'll be asking him about that. but other republicans have fallen in line. the speaker of the house, mike johnson, has gushed about this and said that the revenue coming into the government could potentially help pay for their big agenda that they want to push through congress. but there are so many republicans in the mitch mcconnell camp, many of them who are quiet because they don't want to speak out against donald trump. they've been free traders for most of their career. trump is completely opposite on that key position. but there are some concerns. we've heard from susan collins, a key swing vote raising concerns. maine, of course, relies heavily on canada, particularly with issues of home heating oil. chuck grassley is concerned about how farmers will be hurt in iowa by this trade war. so the concerns aren't over yet, even with this one month pause. >> yeah. i mean, you talked about how about just the products and the goods that come from ruby red states that ele

there's no doubt in the short term senator thune will support this. all republicans have to support this. the berger. >> will not say much about it. >> that's true. the bigger question is going forward, how does this impact the president's legislative agenda if he's going to be a successful president, if his presidency is going to be successful, he will need to get a budget through all his programs, through how does it affect all those narrow majority, those narrow votes that he has to get a lot of been done over the the first couple of weeks? that is making some republicans kind of exhausted by this. >> i do want to take a quick step back and just talk about the trump actions from this past week, because there's been a lot that's been going on. he's, you know, called for the removal of fbi workers in the trump related investigation. he went as far as saying signing an executive order calling for 30,000 migrants to be sent to guantanamo bay, going after diversity initiatives throughout the government in just this dramatic overhaul of the federal gover

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thune: mr. president, i ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: the clerk: ms. alsobrooks. ms. baldwin. mr. banks. mr. barrasso. mr. bennet. mrs. blackburn. mr. blumenthal. ms. blunt rochester. mr. booker. mr. boozman. mrs. britt. mr. budd. ms. cantwell. mrs. capito. mr. cassidy. ms. collins. mr. coons. mr. cornyn. ms. cortez masto. mr. cotton. mr. cramer. mr. crapo. mr. cruz. mr. curtis. the clerk: mr. daines. thank you, i had the opportunity to meet with almost all of you and i greatly appreciate that pretty i'm grateful to president trump when it is committee for your consideration to be the any seventh attorney general of the united states. i would not be here without my family. in big bear with me, for just a moment, a lot of made a very long trip and around the mall down so i don't forget anyone predict my beautiful mother, retired kindergarten teacher would not be here without my month rest of the week ago it was 12 years since we l

they were coming tuesday afternoon and leave thursday morning and now senator thune is working mondayough friday the all complected, people themselves don't work very much in the upset with the president is asking governor employees to work in the administration the white house has signaled that may be a part of the reform of the federal workforce to sell off some of these pieces of expensive real estate that is not being used completely, do you think that is a good idea. >> absolutely you look at the statistics. roughly 12% occupancy rate and federal buildings in washington, d.c., that includes maintenance crews and security, virtually nobody is at work, we have to re-examine and right sides of federal government. we cannot afford the size and scale of the bureaucracy that they currently have but i applaud president trump for doing what he's doing most private businesses do all the time but of course my colleagues represent the idea that you can come to washington, d.c. and not get very much done that's what they did for four years. cheryl: certainly there is a lot to discuss with th

we want to thank everybody and we want to thank senator thune for moving it along. and if you can give me his commission, we will sign it. thank you very much. and if you'd like to ask a new question of the new secretary. it's a pretty great title, right? >> yes. pres. trump: cabinet member. >> as you heard president trump say, we have to turn the ship around. if interior were a public company, stock would be in the tank. revenue has been declining, the deregulation order which president trump just signed extremely important because we have to shorten the time it takes to build things in america. and not only do we have to produce more energy, we have to produce more critical minerals in this country and we are talking across the whole country, including alaska especially, a big opportunity. interior, if it were a company, has the largest balance sheet in the world. 500 million acres of public land. 700 million acres of subsurface. over two billion of offshore acres. these are all assets that belong to the american people. we all talk about the debt america has, 36

thune. aye. mr. cassidy. aye. mr. lankford. aye. mr. daines. aye. mr. barrasso, aye. mr. johnson, aye. mr. tillis, aye. ms. blackburn, aye mr. wyden, no. ms. cantwell, no. mr. bennet, no. mr. warner, no. mr. whitehouse, no. ms. hassan, no. ms. cortez masto, no. ms. warren, no. mr. sanders, no. ms. smith, no. mr. lujan, no. mr. warnock, no. mr. chairman? the chairman votes aye. the final tally is 14 ayes, 13 nays. chair crapo: with the click please restate the vo--with the clerk restate the vote? >> 14 ayes, 13 nays. chair crapo: the vote is reported favorably. since i asked my republican colleagues to hold off at the outset, i will go to my republican colleague first. senator tillis. sen. tillis: i voted aye today and i wanted to briefly explain why. i believe in my 65 years -- i will be 65 in august -- that mr. kennedy will be one of the first people coming before who is not a trained health care expert. he views this through the lens of an attorney. he's brought many lawsuits on food safety, vaccine safety, a number of other things. mr. chair, i think it was senator war

according to senate majority leader john thune embodies promised to get to the department back to its core mission. despite democratic opposition, rfk junior is moving forward to leave the health and human services department. he is singularly on with no votes from democrats. kennedy advanced out of committee vote was 14, 13 idaho republican senator mike crapo says kennedy will bring needed change to americans health care. he has spent his career fighting to end america's chronic illness epidemic. democrats like oregon's ron wyden say his views on vaccines are dangerous peddling these conspiracy theories the nation's chief health officer. it's going to be deadly director of national intelligence pick tulsi gabbard also got the green light in committee. both she and kennedy next face full senate votes. other nominees expected to face scrutiny include education secretary pick and former wwe ceo linda mcmahon, maryland democratic senator chris van hollen said he doesn't think she's qualified. i'm trying to figure out what her background has in education and you need to search far and wid

on the other hand, within the senate, when they chose his successor, they chose john thune. john thune is very much in the camp of somebody like mitch mcconnell when it comes to the senate. you wrote the title of your book, lost his party. did you mean. well, that there was a rightward drift on his party and a populist drift from his party. people who are in the senate now, even people who he tried to help support, you know, have voted against him time and again. he and president trump have no love lost for one another. and he doesn't deny that this is president party. now, who was or what was he more loyal to? the institution or the party? that's a terrific question. and in some it depends on the issue because. there are issues where you could say he was beholden to his party. shaping the courts was probably would probably be one of those. are issues where you would say he was beholden to the institution and aid for ukraine might be an example of that. michael tackett the book is the price of power how mcconnell mastered the senate, changed america and lost party. thank you

a senate majority leader john thune filed cloture on john ratcliffe or john ratcliffe was just confirmedoversy of the cia director. the democrats have said we support a peaceful transition of power we just oppose the transition altogether. so, what are they doing? they're using guerrilla tactics. this is systemic to block almost every one of trumps nominees. except some of the more liberal ones are some they are friendly with like rubio to put them through and say see, we are bipartisan but the majority of them, that's not what is happening. they're not disallowing it up and down votes for the committee have your hearings, you make your decisions because the they are using the powers, the rules of the senate to try in the scuttle from day one the trump presidency. to try to sabotage it. to try to kneecap his ability to manage the government right out-of-the-box. it's crucial first 100 days he be able to do so. soon found cloture on john ratcliffe's nominee nomination for cia director. for homeland security secretary, of course for pete hegseth can you imagine pete hegseth as secretary of

>> what you have seen from senate republicans and senate majority thune in the past two weeks is thatsident trump's nominees. i do not believe that that we're going to face any issue there. i do believe that they're going to get confirmed, so i'm not worried about that. griff: brad, we're tight on time because there was so much breaking news today, but if you had to pick one or more than one, do you see trouble for any of these the -- >> yeah. i think tulsi gabbard's the one many trouble, the difference being she doesn't have a social media following or personality the way the other two do. rfk jr. has an incredible from file, so does kash patel. he doesn't -- griff: but he was a democrat congresswoman. >> exactly. she doesn't have the kind of base support that the other two have. so i think she's in the weaker position, and i think her answers on ed snowden were terrible and disqualifying for a lot of republicans. are. griff: great insight, as always. thanks for joining us today. all right. meanwhile, multiple top officials at the fbi have been orders to retire, resign -- orders to r

senate majority leader john thune said on the floor the u.s. senate will vote later today on pam bondi's nomination to be the attorney general. also a short time ago robert f. kennedy, jr. moved one step closer to becoming health and human services secretary. the senate finance committee last hour voted along party lines to advance his nomination out of committee and onto the full senate for a vote. and we expect the senate intelligence committee to vote today on tulsi gabbard's nomination for director of one potential hold-out there moderate republican senator susan collins. now she is backing tulsi gabbard. >> i will vote for her. i believe she is committed to strengthening our national security. and i questioned to her extensively about her views on edward snowden and i am now satisfied that she will not seek in any way to have him pardoned. >> harris: you will remember the edward snowden case behind one of the biggest classified document leaks in u.s. history. now senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is on capitol hill with more.

of time to disapprove them necessarily so you want to avoid traffic jams and you want to talk to thune's office if you're in the senate and talk to the parliamentarian and the committees and jurisdictions all should be working on this already. but that goes to some differences between the senate and the house, what are the differences between the house and senate procedure here, tom, you're the expert on house procedure. >> thank you so much for having me on this important topic. i was served in the house par men tarrian's office for 26 years including at the outset of the review act. my tenure started in 1995. hat te mentioned, thousands and thousands of regulations have been subject to congressional review and disapproval. yet only 20 of those regulations have been disapproved, using the act. i would like to think that one of the factors is the procedures associated with the congressional review act, and i'm glad we have this forum to kind of demystify that procedure. it really is a tale of two procedures. the day counts that steve referenced associated with the look back period and th

i do think senator thune deserves some credit for actually forcing the senate to work on weekends ande of these nominations through. yes, it's disappointing the democrats are behaving like this, but we knew they were going to obstruct at every single opportunity that's correct get. so far the president has a 100 batting average on these nomination ifs. some of them the margins are closer, some better, but i feel very confident that we're going to get the president's cabinet confirmed very quickly, frankly, much more quickly than happened in the first administration because the president's really pushing on this. i think we have some better allies in the senate than maybe the presidented had eight years ago. so, yeah, it's not always perfect, but i think the president's confirmation hearings are going much better than they were eight years ago. maria: do you expect to be the deciding vote on tulsi gabbard, on kash patel, on bobby kennedy jr.? >> do i expect to, no, but i think there's a chance, right? you always are to be ready for it. that that's, obviously -- of course, part of the j

senator thune is there. john, you are with us as well and of course you can help me as we sort of peer in here waiting for senator cassidy. senator from louisiana. not sure how he is going to vote. this is a critical vote for rfk, jr. he gets out of committee he can go to the floor and try to fight for it there. if you don't get out of committee, then i guess you revert to plan f. >> john: you see the chairman talking with the ranking member as we wait for this to get underway. there are a few republican senators with collins leading the charge there who were unsure about rfk's stance on vaccine, shifting stance on abortion. susan collins has been satisfied by some of what he was talking about, i believe, joni ernst as well. if it comes to a full vote in the senate they would seem to be on board with it. but as you pointed out the big question is whether or not it gets out of committee. if he doesn't, he doesn't go to a full vote. >> dana: maybe you heard more than i have. there is a possibility that he coul

. >> senate majority leader john thune says congress will work with the white house to find ways to spend less spend more effectively more efficiently. president trump says elon musk can't do anything without his approval. >> the trump administration says musk is a special government employee, meaning he's not subject to the same ethics rules as others in washington. i'm today some lot back to you. >> today, 10% tariffs on imports went into effect on goods from china. that could drive up the cost a range of consumer goods like cell phones, computers, furniture and clothing. now china is threatening its own retaliatory tariffs that could take effect on monday. >> still ahead, we'll continue our team coverage of the storm. we'll see how long this rain is going to stick around the bay area and get a look at the snow forecast office also after the break, there's a new top firefighter in san francisco. we're going to learn about the new chief. we're taking a look at our storm tracker today. we can see with the heavy rain is coming down right now. that's the yellow and orange going over san fra

think about people like senate majority leader john thune from south dakota.s, other crops and beef to other countries. they will be hit. their incomes will decrease. the question is what will they do about it, if anything, on pushing back on donald trump. >> and we're waiting on more details. we'll stand by for that. selina, what more are you learning about trump's unprecedented move encouraging millions of federal workers to quit their jobs by offering buyouts? how can this all play out? >> guys, this is unprecedented but president trump sees it as him fulfilling his campaign vow to slash the size of the federal government. earlier this week his administration offered roughly 2 million federal workers the option to resign and continue getting paid for several months. but if even a fraction of the workforce takes the trump administration up on this offer, it could send shock waves through the economy and it could lead to disruptions of critical federal services. in the wake of that tragic plane collision there are concerns about how it could impact the faa. a

senate majority leader john thune says congress will work with the white house to find ways to spend less to spend more effectively more efficiently. president trump says elon musk can't do anything without his approval. the trump administration says musk is a special government employee, meaning he's not subject to the same ethics rules as others in washington. i'm today some lot back to you. >> and elon musk is making major moves to reshape the federal government. and president trump is standing behind his billionaire friend. the white house confirms must is a special government employee but says nothing is done without the president's approval. democrats, though, are frustrated and unelected leader has so much say and they're fighting against his actions. washington, d.c., correspondent hannah brandt digs into musts, controversial role. >> the world's richest man is making waves as his power over government seems to grow. >> we don't have a 4th branch of government called elon musk. the white house says musk is a special government employee giving him official authority through th

friends in the senate and i think, by the way, the senate republican leader from south dakota, senator thuneknows about agriculture. they need to put a stop to this. this isn't just going to happen at the white house. >> yeah. governor james blanchard, former ambassador to canada, thank you so much for your time, sir. appreciate it. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> well, still ahead this hour, does elon musk know your social security number under his role in the trump administration? the spacex ceo has just been given new access to the treasury department's payment system. our reporting next. >> on the boeing 747 has crashed in the lockerbie area. >> trying to find out the why of it became everything. >> nothing is what it seems in the lockerbie story. >> lockerbie, the bombing of pan am flight 103, february 16th on. >> necessary action. missing punches, unnecessary. >> check reversals. >> unnecessary time sheet corrections. >> unnecessary unanswered sick. >> time. >> get paycom. >> and make. >> the unnecessary. >> unnecessary. >> liberty. >> liberty mutual is all she talks about. since

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but phil, the senate majority leader, john thune, wants to move on this nomination by early next week, which means he'll get the job unless four republicans break ranks and stop this nomination on the senate floor. phil. >> yeah, a huge step forward. we'll wait about 36 minutes to hear if cassidy outlines the serious commitments he posted on x that he received. manu raju great reporting as always, my friend. thanks so much. now to an in-depth look at the federal government under president trump, rapidly changing almost every day right before our eyes or oftentimes behind the scenes, we hear about it later. it's only been two weeks at the center of it all. the billionaire special government employee elon musk. now cnn is learning more about his extensive expansive reach and those who are helping him complete his mission. a group of inexperienced college age engineers. now, here's a look at what musk and his allies have done over the past several days. they have gained full access to the treasury's payment systems, threaten to shut down usaid, offered all federal employees a buyout like

we expect a vote, dana, early next week, the senate majority leader, john thune, plans to bring this up early next week. that means he needs to keep republicans in line. we expect all democrats to vote against rfk jr., meaning he can only lose three republican votes at most on the senate floor. what will lisa murkowski do? what will susan collins do to perennial swing votes? what will mitch mcconnell do? a childhood survivor of polio? someone who supports vaccines as well? but are there four republicans who could vote against him right now? it doesn't seem that way. but still, several republicans keeping their cards close to their vest. as we head into this critical vote next week. dana. >> and we cannot overstate how much what we just heard from senator cassidy will give those those three republicans, if they are looking for it, political cover to vote for, for rfk jr., because they can say, i mean, you can see the statements being written now. i had my doubts. but doctor cassidy says that he's going to be kind of in charge of this and make sure that things don't go awry. and so the

thune: mr. president, later today the senate will vote on the nomination of pam bondi to serve as attorney general. ms. bondi is an experienced prosecutor who was a tenacious lawyer tough on crime. in her 18 years as a state prosecutor in florida's hillsboro county, she worked with law enforcement, visited crime scenes and spent countless hours in the courtroom. those who know her have spoken of her toughness and skill as a prosecutor. they've also spoken of her character, of her willingness to work with anyone to solve a problem and of her deep commitment to the victims of crimes and their families. in 20 # 1, pam bondi became florida's first attorney general. at that time so-called pill mills were a major problem. on the campaign trail ms. bondi would hear heartbreaking stories of addiction and loss and families would give her photos of loved ones lost to the scourge of drugs. as attorney general she filled her office with those photos and got to work. she worked with the florida legislature t

senator thune and i joined forces to pass a very important bill that took on the international shippers to take on the rates they were charging businesses and farmers and manufacturers and it immediately had an impact. i will get to that in a minute. i do want to raise with you, comm. maffei, do you know of any instances where the united states has been singled out or treated unfairly under the neutrality treaty in the operation of the canal? comm. maffei: i do not. i would add one of the reasons why the u.s. is disproportionately affected by raises and fees and other kinds of fees at the canal is because the united states proportionally utilizes the canal. sen. klobuchar: that is something that would affect the total number of fees and we know it is a critical trade corridor and want to continue to use that corridor and be treated in a fair way. but i do think one of the things that hasn't been brought out as we look at the periods of congestion or reduced capacity of the canal, which we know have occurred, like we saw with last year's drought, can delayed shipments, increase costs pot

thune and mr. mcconnell and others.eal personal trespasses, people like like mr. hegseth, he initially picked mr. gaetz, both of them credibly accused of criminal acts, picking inexperienced people, mr. patel and others. what what would that look like in your view, if again, if a if a sort of check on those kinds of people being in control of the military and the department of justice and the, you know, internal police, as you write in your piece, if that were happening somewhere else. >> yeah, absolutely. >> because i. >> think that. >> to. >> me is one of the things that has. most stunned me. i mean, over these past two weeks and of course, over the last nine years is the way that congress has just. failed to stand up for itself as. >> an. >> independent and co-equal branch of government. that was it. particularly over the last couple of years, we've seen so much. >> activity by the. >> supreme court actually saying, you know, that there are limits on executive power, that actually. congress needs to have. >> a bigger

when you look at them republicans that represent top agriculture producing state such as senator john thunethe majority leader who has said he would only support tariff that they were done in a targeted way. another midwest republican senator asked scott bessent how he's going to protect american farmers when it comes iteris. he said he was looking to some sort of catch-up provision that would help bring beijing negotiating table when it comes to purchase agreements that they made under the phase one trade deal which has since lapsed. so the questions remaining particularly if these nations can come together when it comes to expanding or addressing these to buy president trump. annmarie: when it comes to canada we do know that justin trudeau announced and promised retaliatory tariffs but in a more gradual response. potentially of the government looking for an offramp to negotiate right now? >> that is what it really sounds like. $30 billion of goods right away will be taxed and then they are looking at consultation bring on the rest of the $70 billion or more of goods. i think that having a

of a handful of republican senators that we have known over the years that we've met with barrasso, thunendsey graham, dave mccormick, susan collins. i mean, we they know this. they absolutely know this. everyone 100. >> every last one of them knows this is dangerous. a purge at the fbi is dangerous. if somebody stepped over the line, then then yes, deal with those people accordingly. but a wholesale purge there, a wholesale purge at usaid. as john lamar just said this morning, telling every us aid worker to stay at home, there are ramifications, hard power, soft power, investigative power. our enemies are loving this. >> still ahead, our next guest says democrats have become the party of permissiveness, and that is ballot box poison. former ambassador and white house chief of staff under president obama. rahm emanuel, joins us next to explain. also ahead. >> side actionscript. >> that was beyonce breaking yet another record last night at the grammy awards. we'll talk about the top prize she took home and the night's other big moments. morning joe will be right back. >> i was. >> drowning

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