marco rubio confirmed he is the next secretary of state and a unanimous vote as vivek ramaswamy steps away from the doge agency. one more for the road joe biden given the whole biden family preemptive pardons minutes before leaving office were following all of this today, futures let's take a look on your screen all of them across the board are higher in markets closed yesterday, got 152 in markets are open after the martin luther king jr. holiday. watching how investors are ready for the new president at the home is vowing to reduce american cost-of-living across-the-board oil prices as you can see pulling back brought in crude arch would have% for both trump planning to refill the spr while possibly holding off on the terrorist that can affect supply and demand, we've got it. european markets as you can see on your screen a mixed bag, the petit is down. ♪ ♪ ♪. cheryl: time for the hot topic of the hour president trump sending dozens of executive orders on his first day playing the economic groundwork for what he calls the golden age of america. fox business edward lawrence live from

vivek ramaswamy. obviously i am not a donald trump fan. if we remember four years ago what happened, january 6 some of the insurrection. that was real. for anyone to not say that, that does not sit well with me. i have no problem with unity. but, it's not helpful to the united states when you have a cultlike mentality. i think there should be bipartisanship. host: the house is gaveling in to close out the 118th congress. live coverage on c-span and c-span two. host: pursuant to the 20th amendment . host: there was the speaker gaveling down the 118th. we expect the house will come back in just a minute or two to gavel in the 119th congress. micah shoulder is reporting speaker mike johnson says we think we are there, feeling confident he will have the votes to be speaker on the first ballot. he adds, it says nothing if he loses the first round. if he loses the first round, we have learned from emily brooks they expected to go right away to the second round. if he loses that round, we will see what happens. stay on c-span. our cameras will be

but but what i will say about this with vivek ramaswamy, you know, i was critical of vivek ramaswamy because i felt as if he ran during the primary as basically a surrogate for donald trump. so i'm not a fan of vivek ramaswamy. i think that there is a need for an effort like doge, but the fact that donald trump is now saying, well, maybe vivek ramaswamy you can be a senator, that means that he has questions. >> i just want to let me just play just to your point, actually, because i think there's been some doge erosion happening for a while now. elon has been walking some of this stuff back. >> how much do you think we can rip out of this wasted $6.5 trillion? harris biden budget? >> well, i think we can do at least 2 trillion. yeah. >> do you think the 2 trillion is is a realistic number now that you're looking more closely at it? yeah. >> well. >> um, i think i think we will we'll try for 2 trillion. um, i think that's like the best case outcome. if we try for 2 trillion, we've got a good shot at getting one. >> right. what's wrong with that? >> it's 50% because it's not going to ha

vivek ramaswamy and others, getting their seats.evin hassett on the right of your screen, serving matters of economics for the president, intel's e-gov are, hoping to become the next rector of national intelligence. graham in new jersey, democrats line. caller: hi, i want to wish everyone mlk day. -- a happy mlk day. i am disappointed the american people desire another four years of trump. i am also disappointed in people not choosing alabama for the college football finals. host: ok. graham there. we have pictures of more of the president's hopeful cabinet. you heard john mcardle say marco rubio expected to vote on his becoming secretary of state expected today. others to follow as well, when the president hopefully will get members of his cabinet appointed by the -- confirmed by the senate. sanya in california, independent line. caller: hi, good morning. i just wanted to remind everyone how we spend our time, what we are watching on the television or what we are spending our money on is just as much of a message sender as any scre

. >> it was supposed to be a co-leadership with vivek ramaswamy, seems like he's out, does that meanhat doge will be fully in the hands of elon musk? >> basically, yeah, it was all along and elon musk idea and vivek ramaswamy needed a job and things didn't work out so he's no longer with doge. >> there's this discussion of course biden in his final oval office address, talked about the threat of oligarchs, in the context of a democracy that he was concerned about. i showed you all that picture of all of these people, in silicon valley, their huge multimillionaires, does that really fuel even further that threat for the oligarchs? >> it doesn't just fill it, it establishes it. i've been thinking about a similar tableau, if we wanted to have something like this, i was thinking what would you need to have, in the 1950s, it would be all of the ceos of the steel companies because in that era, u.s. steel was king and there was a concern about collusion and in fact, there was, you would never have them turn up at a presidential inauguration and you wouldn't have them intermixed with members

and that is why for donald trump specifically having vivek ramaswamy in that u.s.e capacity of such keen interest, ryan nobles, vaughn hillyard and eugene robinson, thank you so much, gentlemen. >> appreciate it. and up next on chris jansing reports for children in los angeles. the fires didn't just burn their homes. they destroyed in some cases, really the only lives they knew. we'll speak with one of the county leaders who is creating a space for kids to get back to some semblance of normalcy. that's next on msnbc. >> what happens when you drink rise mushroom coffee? you start to feel your mood shift. that's a reishi mushroom, a superfood mood booster that reduces stress. stress. >> that's much when migraine strikes... do you question the tradeoffs of treating? ubrelvy is another option. it works fast, and most have migraine pain relief within two hours. you can treat it anytime, anywhere. tell your doctor all medicines you take. don't take... ...with strong cyp3a4 inhibitors. get help right away for allergic reactions like trouble breathing or face, tongue, or t

vivek ramaswamy a founding member of doge and former presidential candidates.ing you are leaving doge after like three days, what happened? >> pursuant elected office very soon, but things are off to great started, president trump has proven. look at the actions first week, the most pro-marriage present we have had in a long time -- pro merit. and i'm confident they will succeed in slashing and burning that federal bureaucracy. >> jesse: people said you did not get along with elon musk? what is that is it incorrect, we had different but complementary approaches. i focused more on the constitutional law, he was more so of the technology approach vermaak nobody better than elon musk to lead to that. we talk about a constitutional revival it's not just done through the federal government, but federalism were states lead the way. i will say more on that very shortly. >> jesse: so elon musk did not fire you? >> know, we had a mutual discussion, divide and conquer, it's on a one-man show top-down or bottom-up, it's all of the above with. >> jesse: when you hear peopl

you have elon musk and vivek ramaswamy now in the mix.iterally dictating maneuvers in the house and the senate. this requires someone in the white house who can manage warring factions and trump's behavior up until this point has not been to manage warring factions but to pit people against each other. that might be interesting from a narrative point of view but from government point of view, seems like he is sets himself up for disappointment. what are your hopes for the senate being a source of potential mediation in all this? >> there is a song in the music man about trouble. and it says t that rhymes with p. and in that instance, that stands for primaries. so, what you are talking about is who in the senate that is a republican is so worried about a primary that they will do things that will get them in trouble in the general? people need to remember there are still states who will elect a republican or a democrat in the senate. pennsylvania is a good example. north carolina not too long ago. ohio who just turned over a seat by a pret

>> vivek ramaswamy is not going in to doge inside of this white house here.nor of ohio, which was a long planned effort. except we were initially told by sources that he intended to stick with doge and work with elon musk to go and do exactly what he said he was going to do during his own presidential campaign, which was this idea of cutting down on the administrative state and going and slashing not only the federal budget, but also going across departments and agencies and restructuring them. of course, the promise to do that was is very difficult when it comes to actually going about that, for example, to get rid of agencies that require congressional authorization under the presidential reorganization act. and there it's not clear that discussions had been had about seeking congressional approval. and of course, when you're cutting down agencies and departments, to michael's point, there's repercussions for that. and there was never a clear outline at all that was provided as to where they intended to cut from the federal budget. number one, elon musk has

in constant communication with vivek ramaswamy and elon musk anwad they aremy initiatives.heir policy initiativ s and legislature takee ha jurisdiction over the workforcee jurisdiction over the federal buildings.e ha we have jurisdiction over the u.s. postal service, which is something to talk about. we have jurisdiction over a lot thinof tech information technolt the tech geniuses are wanting to use to catch proper payments and other types of fraud. we will be busy in the upcominge session working closely with the entire trump administration. >> trey: all right, you and ime thlisten to something together d i will ask you about it on the other side. >> of course, the president has askee.d us and really needs us h e address the debt limit crisis before it hits in june. a lot of moving pieces and a loi of things to negotiate and a lot of opinions on that.blic we will be working long hours to make sure republicans are onboard because remember theargi smallest margin in history fory the first 100 days. >> trey: he put his finger on the chairman, the majority but incredibly narr

time-out. [ laughter ] does vivek ramaswamy think donald trump is team screech?] does vivek ramaswamy think for one second if given a choice between steve urkel and stefan urquelle, donald trump doesn't urquelle it 100 times out of 100? [ light laughter ] also, vivek clearly never saw "boy meets world," or he would know that the most beloved character on that show was topanga, who beat minkus for valedictorian and got into yale but only decided to go to pembroke so she could be with cory, over the advice of mr. feeny, who told her to go to yale. [ laughter ] and was obviously, feeny was fight. i mean, she worked her whole life to get into the school of her dreams, only to prioritize the needs of a boy over her own ambitions? although ultimately it worked out because she did become a successful lawyer on "girl meets world," even though i feel like she probably regrets not going to yale, and oh, [ bleep ], i've lost my mind. i've [ bleep ]. [ laughter ] i went on a "boy meets world" rant -- [ cheers and applause ] -- in the middle of "a closer look" because i have

was it something that vivek ramaswamy and elon musk said.s a debate that needs to happen within the republican party. >> undoubtably is a debate that needs to happen not only within the republican party but within congress. i think elon musk and others they believe we need to continue to attract the best and the brightest into the united states and i agree but how do you do that and is the h-1b program as it is designed now and a minister now the best way to do that. i do believe that it is. again it is a lottery system and undercuts wages. there is a variety of different holes and loopholes i should say in that program that is not serving the interest of american or america workers for that matter. the notion of bringing the best and the brightest, the notion of bringing high-tech folks that want to start new businesses contribute to the american academy is a good notion. the question is how you do it. a visa program that was designed decades ago is not the case of the longer. trey: before i let your expertise off the hook you been discussi

been covering politics for the last ten or 15 years you will notice a lot of the faces, i see vivek ramaswamye all in various positions around the central swearing-in, cabinet members rfk junior in sundar pichai is there, bergman, pete hegseth, pam bondi, walz, there he is in vivek ramaswamy all lined up, let's see how much we've got i'm trying to count them all everybody who's anybody in the political world is there as we speak. >> brian brenberg joining us what you make of what you seen so far. >> this is an exciting day that's the first thing i make of it you look at the folks standing there now your naming some of them. >> you doing a great job i was doing it with you. >> i saw kristi noem, that is trump's 18 i located team of the second half of the game and yet the starting quarterback back on the field your view starting lineup back on the field better than ever before, that's where the enthusiasm around d.c. is palpable on a cold day it is crazy and yet they are there and there pumped up for what's happening right now in the rotunda. >> everyone's waiting to see what's in the executive

billionaire elon musk and megamillionaire vivek ramaswamy defended the thesis, while breitbart news and>> we're going to get hb1 visas out root and step and all the workers you brought in. we want them all -- just like we're deporting 15 million here, we want them deported out and give those jobs to american sids today. and we demand they get reparations. you stole from them. you stole their live from them. >> you want reparations, do you? joining me now is david -- msnbc political analyst. david, we've been doing this a long time, my friend. we have lived to see the day when the same crowd that's been telling particularly young american men that college is trash, that it's woke garbage full of dei and affirmative action, that you should forget about college, are now mad that they aren't getting the jobs requiring a college degree that h1b visa people are taking and getting paid more money to work in silicon valley jobs that working class trump supporters would never get. where do we go? they want them deported along with the farm workers, right? >> you know, it's even bigger than that.

vivek ramaswamy doesn't think america should be the first hires into tech companies.e says they hire foreign born because our american culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long. but the tech pros and donald trump apparently think americans are too dumb and/or lazy to apply for these jobs. trump told the new york post, i have always liked the visas, that is why we have them. report also pointed out that trump restricted access to foreign workers in his first administration and has been critical of the program in the past. among the maga faithful, the loudest voice is steve bannon. >> you can be part of this but you will not sit here and lie to our face and expect to say, oh, because you are worth $500 billion, you people are taking money, take money, i don't care. i could care less, i am a crazy freaking irishman. >> it is not just a visa issue, this is a symptom of raw shock trump politics. he has been able to survive the last four years by focusing on the media and the deep sea. we are about to find out what happens when trump, elon musk, mike

elon musk and vivek ramaswamy are notjust running the support department of covenant efficiency, betteronald trump's frech enthusiasm for the tech sector and crypto. so how are these very different agendas be made into one? in agendas be made into one? i“! automatic echo chamber but actually having different views about what to do, the impact will be and then he will make the decision as is likely his decision. the decision as is likely his decision-— the decision as is likely his decision. ~ ~' ., ., , decision. we know from his first administration - decision. we know from his first administration that - first administration that donald trump likes a white house full of different factions, struggling in louder disagreement. it seems that when it comes to his economic team, he has done that again. which could lead to all sorts of fallings out in the global economy. michelle fleury, bbc news, new york. those are players but what the policies? donald trump has also vowed to issue a slew of executive orders on his first day in office, including a crackdown on immigration. adrian ang, a re

elon musk and vivek ramaswamy aren'tjust running the so—called department of government efficiency, they'reey and reflect donald trump's fresh enthusiasm for the tech sector and crypto. so, how will these very different agendas be made into one? he's notjust getting one echo chamber but actually having different views about what to do, what the impacts will be and then, he's gonna make the decision — as is rightly his decision. we know from his first administration that donald trump likes a white house full of different factions, struggling in loud disagreement. it seems that when it comes to his economic team, he's done that again — which could lead to all sorts of fallings—out in the global economy. michelle fleury, bbc news, new york. so those are the players but what about the policies? donald trump has vowed to issue a slew of executive orders on his first day in office, including a crackdown on immigration. adrian ang, a research fellow and expert in us politics at rsis, explains what we can expect in the coming days. trump will move first on domestic politics, as you mentioned. there

. >> steve: question for you, there is item in politico this morning that talks about how vivek ramaswamyaving the doge operation and the politico article makes it sound like he and elon were not seeing the same vision and he's leaving, vivek is and will run for governor. what is going on? >> karoline: media tries to stir up controversy, we are a unified team. vivek ramaswamy is a brilliant mind and great supporter of trump. he is moving forward to run for office himself. as far as doge, will live in the executive office of the president and it will restore efficiency in our federal government, to slash needless regulation and bureaucracy. elon musk was here yesterday ready to get to, wo. this is a promise president trump has made and kept for the american people. >> ainsley: we are so proud of you, a lot of american public doesn't and they'll watch you eve everyday. you are 27, youngest press secretary ever, congratulations. you were assistant press secretary under kayleigh mcenany when she was there and worked for elise stefanik, what is different about trump going forward versus when y

vivek ramaswamy joined the musk side of the argument by saying that american workers are just not as good as foreign workers. american workers are mediocre. vivek ramaswamy said quote american culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long. imagine if any democrat, anywhere ever said that american workers are mediocre? itso where is trump coming down on all this? it has always been clear he shares the tech bro's contempt for ordinary americans but is he willing to openly sell out his maga base? after elon musk told trump loyalists to f themselves in the face, trump sided with musk. the terrorist attack into new orleans brings into sharp focus what is at stake in the senate confirmation hearing of donald trump's choice for director of the fbi. they are asking questions of the nominee who has publicly said, he wants to eliminate the intelligence unit and the fbi that investigates terrorist plots and has successfully stopped many of those plots before they were carried out. here is what kash patel said he wants to do with that unit of the fbi and with the rest of the

johnson tweeted his commitments going forward, working with doj, elon musk and vivek ramaswamy onwho want to cut $2 trillion o of the budget. we know there's not $2 trillion to cut. lots of us agree, way too much government spending, got to cut. but when you tick through, we saw it two weeks ago talking about the budget. congress doesn't want to make cuts. they can't get reelected. vivek ramaswamy and elon musk don't have to worry about that, they're private citizens not running for anything. how is legislating going to work? >> that's the problem that kevin mccarthy ran into. he gave people the impression they could do deeper spending cuts than practicable, and mike johnson will run into the same problem. you have to get through the senate, house of representatives can say you want to cut all day culong but doesn't make law. expecting $2 trillion in cuts that's impracticable, the bill will become due. the threshold to remove the speaker is nine members. freedom caucus put a letter out with 11 people, saying we have the people to kick you out if we have to. when they have to fund the

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please help me welcome one of the great friends of afp of liberty of this conservative movement vivek ramaswamy. [applause] >> thank you it's an honor to be here i want to recognize the amendment at afpa for putting this on. i chose to be here for a reason. for delivering the speech that we're about to today i think this will be -- quite possibly the most consequential speech about exactly how we will get this job done of shutting down the administrative state but the reason i wanted to do it and wanted to recognize many of the people in the audience today is that, you have been at the bleeding edge of this fight. this is not an individual sport. this is a team sport. there will be no political messiah on the white house to save us if we're going to be saved it is because we save ourselves. and i think that that is the mentality that i respect most about this institute and brook i would like to recognize brook rollins for outstanding leadership let's give her a round of applause as well for leading this great institute. so thank you, brook. i appreciate that. [applause] i want to kick this off

elon musk and vivek ramaswamy aren'tjust running the so—called department of government efficiency, they'redonald trump's fresh enthusiasm for the tech sector and crypto. so, how will these very different agendas be made into one? he's notjust getting one echo chamber but actually having different views about what to do, what the impacts will be and then, he's gonna make the decision — as is rightly his decision. we know from his first administration that donald trump likes a white house full of different factions, struggling in loud disagreement. it seems that when it comes to his economic team, he's done that again — which could lead to all sorts of fallings—out in the global economy. michelle fleury, bbc news, new york. joining me now is terry haines, founder of pangaea policy. good to see you again. so michelle talking through trump's team and what that means. today, obviously, it's not quite today in the us yet — but when things do get under way in washington dc, executive orders signed today, what will they be when it comes to the economy, do you think? filth. they be when it comes to

vance, vivek ramaswamy and me, we did all right. >> let's go here first. >> when you are speaker of the house, it was bipartisan -- >> unanimous vote back and you just refer the approach and the two-party system? >> same way i've done my job here. things have worked pretty well. we just keep people focus on what's important. things can degrade so quickly on things that are not the most important issues. it's hard for us all his heart and political job to just focus on the things that matter stay focused and you have to build relationships so they trust you and know they work with you and it's worked very well. i have relationships, i had democrats from across the street from a republicans and everybody texting me stuff i've encountered in my life. they all know i'm a conservative guy but we all care about the same and i'll do my best. >> i know there's a lot of noise around this and it's all true. all of these things and all of these people say they want to run for governor to be the senator, every single one except that this appointment to the u.s. senate and the governor offered it to

right now doge, which elon musk and vivek ramaswamy are running is operating out of the spacex headquartersgton dc. so if this report is true, and elon musk goes near trump at the white house, what about the staffers and vivek ramaswamy? where do they go? stuart: i'm wondering where does elon musk go? i me, will he sit in an office five days a week? >> i highly doubt if because of the companies he owns a piece of and x, forgot that one. ktok, rumors about that too . i find it hard to believe but i'll tell you, the fact he'll have a touch down spot at the white house, i think that's important because the recipe for success is you surround yourself with people brighter and smarter than you, and that's what leads to great success. i ink trump is doing a great job here. stuart: one thing i've not worked out or looked into are these doge employees. are they getting paid and who's paying them? lauren: they're hiring and about 50 and they're looking to double. i don't know who's paying them and what their salaries are. could be privately funded and vivek and elon themselves. could be us. they have

you do have doge from elon musk and vivek ramaswamy as sort of an effort to appease i think republicansncerned that you're not gawk to see a prioritization of reigning in big government but how empowered is that office going to be? isis that -- just sort of a -- lip service to that goal? you might see the trump administration trim some of the positionss through nutrition tak about that and short of that, i don't think that's a stated goal of the trump administration and something that once we get past the four years and we have these conversations about what does america first ideology look like heading into the future that's going to be one of the questions for trump's successor is can you that old school conservatism with the populism that'sca ascended right now. >> thank you during your important family time. we appreciate it. b do you think trump 2.0 and new focus of the second administration is possible without those four years in the wilderness as you called it and learned lessons without it? >> i don't think it could be possible and he would have won by the skin of his teeth a th

do i think it reveals the racism of a certain class of people like vivek ramaswamy?es. will that impact how congress behaves? i don't think we know yet. until i know what job -- i don't know what security card elon musk has or vivek. i don't know what their technical jobs are at this point. until we see this manifest in policy, it is just yapping from a bunch of basically palace entry republican elite. >> i will be honest, i don't think they will get a swipe card because this is an actual agency of the united states government that was created that you not have any appropriated funds. doj doesn't. for all practical purposes, it is a working group, you know, that's what it is. this point that you just made about this is an elitist conversation among the maga folks, i listened to mike johnson give his speech today when he accepted the speaker's gavel for the 119th congress, and he laid out this american first agenda. he talked about cutting the administrative state. those are cutting jobs. those are not just democrats or people that voted for joe biden or kamala harris

. >> host: the counter argument to that coming from another trump advisor vivek ramaswamy who is sent to potentially be a part of the doge commission who sit on x the reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born and first-generation engineers over native americans isn't because of an innate american iq deficit, a lazy long excavation, exclamation, key part of it comes down to the c word, culture. tough questions demand tough answers and if we are serious about fixing the problems we have to confront the truth. our american culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long, at least since the '90s and likely longer. that doesn't start in college. it starts young, a culture that celebrates the prom queen of the mess olympia champ for the jock over the valedictorian will not produce the best engineers. two very different thoughts on this program on the h-1b visa program. what should americans take from this? >> guest: i don't really agree with either one of those explanations for why it's happening. like i said the top fields for the h-1b visa is software developers.

now, the democrats we're hearing reports they will ramp up their attack against elon musk and vivek ramaswamyt of government efficiency claiming things like unspecified conflicts. joining us now fox news contributor liz peek. liz? didn't voters reject democrats here, particularly the far left because these are the same democrats who demanded the irs audit and track little $600 phone app spending by taxpayers, but doing nothing to stop the government wasting trillions and trillions of taxpayer dollars. >> liz, this doge effort, the effort to cut government waste is incredibly popular and democrats simply don't know what to do about it. their problem is that they assess the value of projects simply by how much money they can spend. they talk about biden being a consequential president not because he's accomplished anything, but because he got a lot of bills passed and spent hundreds of billions of dollars on pet projects. this is a real kind of come-up-ins for democrats because that is their whole montra. it's not about accomplishing anything. it's not about moving the business of the people fo

. >> brian: doge co-founder vivek ramaswamy will no longer head the department leaving elon musk as thehite house with more. what's the back story? >> so he is stepping away, possibly for future endeavors. and i will get to that in just a second. elon musk was spotted here on the white house complex yesterday and noticeably absent was his doge duo brother vivek ramaswamy. now, a trump transition spokesperson says that vivek has stepped away from the department of government efficiency he is possibly going to run for the governor of ohio. on social media he says it was my honor to help support the creation of doge. i'm confident that elon and the team will succeed in streamlining government. i will have more to say soon about my future plans for ohio. last night when president trump signed the executive order creating doge. he was asked about the world's richest person getting in office in the west wing this is order implementing the document department of government efficiency doge. >> peter: is elon musk getting an office? >> no. is he getting an office for about 20 people that we are

elon musk and vivek ramaswamy aren'tjust running the so—called department of government efficiency —silicon valley and reflect donald trump's fresh enthusiasm for the tech sector and crypto. so how will these very different agendas be made into one? it's notjust getting one echo chamber, but actually having different views about what to do, what the impacts will be. and then he's going to make the decision, as is rightly his decision. we know from his first administration that donald trump likes a white house full of different factions struggling in loud disagreement. it seems that when it comes to his economic team, he's done that again — which could lead to all sorts of fallings—out in the global economy. michelle fleury, bbc news, new york. kathleen brooks is research director at investment platform xtb. let start with the stock market. if you look at the numbers, that trump bump... just shy of record highs, markets like what is promising? markets tend to have a bias to any president who is promising to cut taxes and enforce swathes of deregulation on the energy sector, on the fin

there's now an interesting effort by people like elon musk and vivek ramaswamy to combine cultural conservatism and economic nationalism with the radical reform of government. that could be an appealing ideology for many voters who are frustrated by a government where nothing seems to work that well. on the other side, if democrats do not learn some hard lessons from the poor governance in many blue cities and states, they will be left defending cultural elites, woke ideology and bloated, inefficient government. and that might be a formula for permanent minority status. go to cnn.com/vote for a link to my washington post column this week, and let's get started. on new year's day. 14 people were killed and dozens injured in an i.s.i.s. inspired truck attack in new orleans. police killed the attacker, an army veteran from texas. graham allison coauthored a prescient foreign affairs article in june called the terrorism warning lights are blinking red again. he is a professor of government at harvard who served in the pentagon under bill clinton and has advised secretaries of defense under every pr

vivek ramaswamy and elon musk don't have to worry about that. they're private citizens who don't have to run for anything. so how is legislating actually going to work here? >> this is the problem kevin mccarthy ran into. he gave people the impression they were going to be able to do far deeper spending cuts than were practical. and mike johnson is going to run into the same problem kevin mccarthy did. you have to get things through the senate. you can sit there in the house of representatives and say you want to cut, cut, cut all day long. and if people think you're going to cut $2 trillion, which is impractical, at some point the bill is going to come due. freedom caucus puts out a letter shortly after this vote, there's 11 of them signing it. i don't think it's an accident they were showing we have the numbers if we want to to kick you at at some point. and it wouldn't surprise me which march, for example, if they have to fund the government the first opportunity to do something fiscal, this is going to come right back around and we're going

vivek ramaswamy is part of doge to get rid of the waste. rumors yesterday he might stay in ohio and run for governor. anybody's guess on his future. >> dana: as you said maybe we're about 30 seconds away from the motorcade leaving the white house to make its way to the capitol. we won't miss a moment of it. we have our eyes on all the prizes. we see congress members, jim comer, vivek ramaswamy as you mentioned. >> budget committee chairman. >> dana: jody arrington, that's exactly right. >> steny hoyer. >> dana: he said he would run again, karl. when i was a young pup on capitol hill in 1995 he was there. all these members of congress got a seat. not a plus one. a lot of jockeying to get seats for this amazing moment. >> jim clyburn proceeded by brian mast of florida. ken calvert. >> dana: marjorie taylor greene coming in right there. super orderly and we will go to the white house in just a moment but we are joined by larry kudlow. great to have you here with us. thank you for being here. a couple questions before we go to the motorcade com

if that were the case, it is possible that vivek ramaswamy or kamala harris whose parents were here underome kind of temporary arrangement might not become citizens. >> i think it is a little late for that. >> it's a little late for that. but someone in their position. in other words, what do you make of this change? >> well i think first of all, i do not believe the 14th amendment was written by people who had ever thought about this concept. ever. so it is a grotesque overreach. i think it is a misreading of the 14th amendment as a historian. i mean, nobody in that period worried about this because it didn't happen. >> you think it goes against an originalist interpretation? >> there is no mention of this. no sense of extending citizenship to people who are. we live in an era when people can fly in for vacation, have a baby, claim the baby is now american. i think we have to deeply review this concept because, and this relates to the whole issue of illegal immigration. nobody ever envisioned a world of instant worldwide communication and relatively cheap transportation. >> another one o

heading up along with the ramaswamy -- along with vivek ramaswamy cutting federal spending.sence in the future administration has not been welcomed by all. >> 2025 is beginning with a sharp cold snap in the weather triggering alerts for much of the u.k. snow and ice is forecast for much of the country this weekend making the clear up after recent flood damage all the more frustrating. >> most of the water has drained away so today was about starting the clear up. carolyn is a volunteer at this church and cafe in warrenton. she has seen flooding before. >>>> this happened a few years ago and it almost ruined the building. everything was wrecked. the plaster had to be taken off. repainted. it does affect the business. it affects the church, the congregation and it is disheartening when it keeps happening. >> a few doors away, this was the scene yesterday. today the insurers are on site. have you been flooded before? >> once. 2021. >> rosita is thoroughly fed up. you have had enough. >> i have had enough. it is really stressful. >> that is it. time to move. yet again, the furni

when did we elect must and vivek ramaswamy? i don't remember talking about them before. anyway, happy new year. guest: you said you wanted to do the speaker vote in the first round so then they can get to their business. what should be the first thing they do what i washington in the 119th congress? caller: i looked up the icc thing. host: i will leave it there because, as we said, the senate meeting to formally gavel in the 118th does gavel out the 118th conference -- gavel out the 118th congress and begin the new session. we take you live on c-span.

i know elon and vivek ramaswamy are both men. thank you for this idea and beginning their time and energy and gathering other folks to eliminate government waste. like zero one -- two punch they will identify and address the most fragrant abuses of bureaucracy. it will provide ideas to these men in congress will bring the constitutional oversight and legislative authority. we plan to hit the ground running day one of the trump administration and take aim at the left over. mike committee which is the public's committee become the new chairman there. look no further than the groundwork we laid last year. loaded and inflation reduction act. it's a bill passed and authorized billions of dollars of handouts to the democrat aligned groups. the current process between now and january 20 when trump takes over, equated to bars of the titanic. we've reached unprecedented levels of waste, fraud and abuse. writing checks january 20 already has issues, a clear warning in a letter and december. we demanded to know guessing these old cars throw

doge himself, vivek ramaswamy, who is going to be on the department of government efficiency. but he is stepping down from that role to run for governor of ohio. we saw tulsi gabbard on the left there, turned republican, nominated to be director of the office of national intelligence. these are members of the president's would- be cabinet. none of them have been confirmed yet. we do expect marco rubio, the senator from florida, to be confirmed overwhelmingly today. there he is on the left, as secretary of state. that is -- if trump gets his druthers and i have no reason to think he won't, that will be the trump cabinet. we're not aware of any nomination that is in trouble as of yet. michael walls, the florida congressman, who will be the national security adviser. >> you're looking at the incoming trump administration, including and especially the woman in the white coat with the blue scarf, susie wiles. the woman who led the campaign to get donald trump back into the white house and will be the gate keeper, the chief of staff in donald trump's white house. >> and will be the

vivek ramaswamy is a founding member of doge and former presidential candidate.we're hearing you're leaving doge after like three scaramucci's. what happened? >> well, the reality is i'm pursuing elected office. very shortly. we'll have an announcement soon. but, jesse, things are off to a great start, i think. president trump has proven. look at the actions that he took in that first week. the most pro merit president i think we've had in a long time. and as for my vision, grounded in constitutional law and the future of the country, i think it's best pursued through elected office, and i'm confident that they're going to succeed in slashing and burning that federal bureaucracy. >> people are saying you didn't get along with musk. what happened there? >> i think that's incorrect. but what i would say is we had different and complementary approaches. i focused more on a constitutional law, legislative based approach. he focused more on a technology approach, which is the future approach. no better person to lead that technology digital approach than elon musk. bu

. >>> vivek ramaswamy is dropping out of the president's department of government efficiency or doge. sources familiar with the plan say ramaswamy will launch a campaign for ohio governor next week. one of the sources says, quote, pursuing the governor's race and running doge were not compatible. the decision leaves doge in the hands of elon musk now. the advisory commission was made official in a new executive order and will try to reduce the federal budget by $2 trillion. meanwhile, marco rubio has been confirmed as president trump's secretary of state. the republican senator from florida sailed through in a unanimous vote in the senate, after being approved by the foreign relations committee. senate committees also voted to advance four other trump nominees, including pete hegseth for defense secretary and kristi noem for homeland security secretary. nominees require only 51 votes in the senate to be confirmed. but democrats can delay votes by several days if they refuse to fast track them to the floor. hegseth in particular facing fierce opposition from democrats. the senate major

elon musk and vivek ramaswamy aren'tjust running the so—called department of government efficiency.h enthusiasm for the tech sector and crypto. so how will these very different agendas be made into one? it's notjust getting one echo chamber, but actually having different views about what to do, what the impacts will be. and then he's going to make the decision, as is rightly his decision. we know from his first administration that donald trump likes a white house full of different factions struggling in loud disagreement. it seems that when it comes to his economic team, he's done that again — which could lead to all sorts of fallings—out in the global economy. michelle fleury, bbc news, new york. so, what is ahead today? terry haines is founder of pangaea policy and i asked him what executive orders relating to the economy we might see today. i think, sally, there will be lots of executive orders relating to the economy. first and foremost, a variety of tariffs, china and elsewhere. i think the markets believe that scott bessent, the incoming treasury secretary, is likely the perso