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Crypto trading involves risk of loss. Crypto currency services are provided to U.S. and U.S. territory customers by Payward Interactive Inc. P.W.I. D.P.A. Kraken.com/legal/disclosures. Hello, folks. Welcome to Cudlow. I'm Larry Cudlow. The Senate Judiciary Committee begins its investigation of the failed Trump assassination attempt tomorrow. Senator Ted Cruz on that and much more in just a few minutes. But first up, Fox News, Jeff Paul. Live in Butler, P.A. with a lot of new and interesting stuff. Jeff, what you got cooking there? Well, yeah, Larry, the FBI saying they've conducted roughly 450 interviews as they search for answers as to not only how this happened, but why. They also say crooks, who they describe as a loner, was highly intelligent. It went to great lengths to conceal exactly what he was doing. Now, over the past year or so, investigators say he used various aliases to make purchases for firearm supplies as well as materials to build explosive devices. The FBI detailed crooks' behavior in the days leading up to the shooting. Crooks registered for the rally three days after it was announced and searched how far away Oswald was from JFK that same day. They also say he surveilled the site and practiced at a gun range using the same AR-15 style rifle. But on the day of the shooting, Crooks first visited Butler, Botsamamao, and then went back home. He then returned to the rally site and flew his drone. A short time later, local police identified him as a suspicious person. Now, texts obtained by Senator Chuck Grassley appear to show a picture of Crooks with a local officer telling the group of law enforcement, quote, "If you want to notify Secret Service snipers to look out, I lost sight of him." Local police telling ABC News, there was clearly some communication problems that day. He was looking up and down the building and just wandered around and just seemed out of place. What do you think is transpiring once you send in what you've sent in? I assume that there would be somebody coming out to, you know, speak with this individual or, you know, find out what's going on. I think we all felt that day. How so? Life was lost. Yeah. People died. The FBI also detailed Crooks climbed on the roof not using a ladder, but the HVAC system and piping investigators say he then moved across rooftops concealing the rifle with a collapsible stock before firing off eight shots and then later being shot and killed himself. They also found two explosive devices inside Crooks' car, but it appears they didn't explode due to the receiver being off. Now, no word just yet on when the FBI plans to interview former President Donald Trump. That is partly standard protocol for any victim in a situation like this, but we do know that at 10 a.m. tomorrow, there will be the beginning of a Senate judiciary hearing on this very topic. Larry. Jeff, just quickly if you may and thank you for the report. There's an issue here. You mentioned it right at the end. Explosive devices in the car. I think of them as bombs. Earlier there were reports about homemade bombs at home. What is the bomb's story with this character? Well, it sounds like the FBI saying he had a couple IEDs or explosive devices that he made in his car. He had two there. He had one at home. Now, the one inside his car, well, they say that was ready to go. That had all the supplies and it could have exploded. They don't know what kind of damage it would have caused, but it was ready to go. The receiver on those explosive devices, according to the FBI, that wasn't on. So if he tried to detonate it, it wouldn't have gone off. Now, the explosive device they found at his house, it didn't have all the supplies to blow up. They didn't find a receiver there. So that's the story with the two different things. Again, they don't know what kind of damage it would have caused, but it could have blown up, had that receiver been on, and he clicked it to explode. All right. Terrific. Jeff Paul, thank you ever so much, folks. We're going to come back to this in just a moment. But first up, no matter what her campaign claims, Kamala Harris cannot ban her fracking ban. That's the subject of the riff. Over the weekend, a spokesperson for Kamala Harris attacked Donald Trump over his criticism that Ms. Harris supports a ban on fracking. The spokesperson claims Ms. Harris no longer supports a ban on fracking, or maybe she never supported one. But wait a minute, when she ran for president in 2019, here's what she actually said. There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking. And starting with what we can do on day one around public lands, right? Well, all right. That sounds a lot like no fracking to me. It may even sound like no leasing and no fracking on public lands. So now she's changed her position. But hang on a moment. Not a vice president. You haven't actually publicly said you've changed your position. Spokespersons don't count. You guys say it. Now, whether this is literally true about a fracking ban or just supporting the Biden-Harris administration, which killed the Keystone XL pipeline, and in fact stopped fracking in Anwar, or stopped fracking in the Alaska National Petroleum Reserve, or a greatly scaled back offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, all those policies might as well be a ban on fracking, kind of the same difference, isn't it? I don't mean to be personal, Madam Vice President. This is a policy issue. But whatever you may say, your war against fossil fuels policy is likely to be continued should you become president. Your foreign policy has essentially dropped the oil sanctions on Iran. But you have imposed strict oil sanctions on Alaska, and elsewhere here in the U.S. Now, the U.S. is producing about 13 million barrels of oil per day. That's right now. Roughly where we were at the end of the 2019 pre-pandemic. Now, we're not for your war against fossils, and your multi-trillion-dollar or various Green New Deal spending, U.S. oil production today could be 15 or 16 million barrels per day. And at that rate, world oil prices would be closer to $40 a barrel than around $85. And if that were the case, Iran wouldn't be financing a war. Hamas Hezbollah against Israel, nor would Russia have invaded Ukraine. And if that weren't the case, gasoline prices would be closer to $2 a gallon instead of $350. And if that were the case, then the cumulative rise of inflation during your term would have been closer to 10% instead of $20. And if that were the case, then real wages of a typical work and family would be over 5% higher during your term instead of 4% lower. And if that were the case, then there would be no affordability crisis. So you see, Madam, even though you may not be in favor of a ban on fracking, where such a ban dots every eye and crosses every tee, stops every oil rig, cancels every oil lease, postpones every investment, halts every single gas-powered car, I'd say you come pretty close to that aforementioned fracking ban. And in view of the unpopularity of your inflation, economic and foreign wars over the past nearly four years, don't you wish you had banned that fracking ban in the first place? And that's the riff. All right. Now, great pleasure. Join me now, Texas Senator Ted Cruz. We have not seen you in a while. Senator Cruz, I see a smile on your face. I want to get to your judiciary hearing tomorrow. You're a member of the committee and it's got some serious work to do. But it is sort of odd, you know, if not exactly a ban on fracking, which he did say we're under for president four years ago, but if not exactly a ban on fracking, it's pretty much a ban on fracking, leasing and production and so forth and so on. And it's caused us no end of problems. Has it not? I mean, really, you think they regret this in any way, shape or form? I don't think they do. Listen, in 2020, when she ran for president, Kamala was unequivocal that she would ban fracking, that she wanted to shut down oil and gas drilling on federal lands, on shore, offshore. And by the way, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris together, that's what they've done. They've waged a war on U.S. oil and gas production. They're proud of the over 90 different actions they've taken to make it harder to drill here in the United States, to make it harder to create jobs, actions that have all had the effect of driving up inflation, driving up the price of a tank of gas. And listen, there's a lot of differences between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, but one of the most fundamental ones is Joe Biden has basically been a puppet for the last three and a half years with other people pulling his strings. Kamala is a true believer. Listen, I served in the Senate with Kamala. I know her. She believes this nonsense. And so this is a 100-day head fake, where she's going to pretend, no, no, no, never mind. I didn't mean any of that. Don't count on anything. This is the same campaign that is suddenly claiming that she was not the borders are. Never mind that all of the Trump, she was in charge of our open borders. She was in charge of stopping the invasion on the southern border, except you know what? She viewed her job as increasing the invasion on the southern border because Joe Biden and Kamala Harris want these 11 and a half million people to come into this country. All they're doing now is engaging in campaign misdirection, her radical record. She can't run away from it. Let's go back to the Judiciary Committee, your committee. You're going to enter into the investigation. The House has a bit of a head start and the House has come out, I guess, formally today with their task for seven Republicans. I'm sorry, yes, seven Republicans, six Democrats. So now, with your hearing coming up, it seems like we're getting closer to some interesting issues. One of them is this failed communication between the local police and the Secret Service, and I guess the FBI. I'm not sure where the FBI fits in terms of on the ground, but maybe they were FBI agents on the ground as well. One thing I want to ask you, Miranda Divine wrote a tough column about this in the New York Post. Does the FBI and does the Secret Service have a DEI problem? Diversity, equity, inclusion. Equity is a lot different than equality, as you know. Does it have a DEI problem? Is that why there's no communication? Is that why a lot of the local cops were given up on the FBI or given up on the Secret Service and didn't want to share? Or is there more technical issues at stake here? Look, of course that's a problem, and that's a problem throughout the Biden-Harris administration, which is they put partisan politics. They put DEI above doing their jobs. It's why almost everything they touch has been a disaster. It's why we saw a disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan because they put politics above protecting our servicemen and women. It resulted in 13 servicemen and women being murdered because they were so incompetent. When it comes to the Secret Service, this hearing tomorrow is very important. I and a number of other senators called for this hearing. I'm glad we're going to have it. But we need to get to the bottom of why we saw the most catastrophic security failure of the Secret Service in at least 43 years. At least since the Ronald Reagan attempted assassination, there has not been a security failing of this magnitude. And there are a host of questions. We had a briefing call with all 100 senators and the now resigned head of the Secret Service, where in that hearing, in that briefing call, she dodged every single difficult question. She took no accountability. I hope tomorrow we get to the bottom of why there were so few agents who were assigned, why there was no aerial there protecting it, why there was such terrible coordination with local law enforcement. And Larry, here's what I believe it is. I believe this administration puts partisan politics above doing their jobs and protecting the American people. And I think that is why they did not assign adequate protection to protect Donald Trump because for them, Donald Trump was the enemy and so they were not willing to make those decisions to give the security that needed to be given, that I hope and pray is being given at least now. Well, you know, Mr. Trump himself has praised, and I think rightly so, those Secret Service agents who collapsed on top of him and protected him. And that's a wonderful thing, and they were doing their job. But somehow or other, and I don't know whether it was the Washington level Secret Service or FBI. I'm so skeptical of these agencies in Washington, sir. Just my skepticism almost knows no bounds, throw the CIA into that, too. Or maybe it was the Pittsburgh office of the FBI or the Secret Service. You know, I'm just skeptical of leadership, not the rank and file. And that's why I've asked my speaker, Mike Johnson and others we've had on the show. You've got to get investigators in there, Senator Cruz, who do their own work and do not let the top brass of these agencies don't let them control it, because you'll never get to the bottom of it. Right, and Larry, you're drawing a very important distinction. Listen, the line agents, that detail, they put their body between the gunman and President Trump. They demonstrated incredible heroism, and you and I both know incredible patriots who are Secret Service agents and love this country. My concern and the failure is not on the part of those line agents, but it's on the part of the political leadership. The leadership appointed by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and by the way, I have a sneaking suspicion. One of the real reasons why Biden wanted this head of the Secret Service in there is because she had been on his personal detail before, and they wanted the Secret Service not to let the American people know about how badly his mental condition had deteriorated. You and I and many others have been pointing that out for years, and they had insisted, "Nope, everything's great until suddenly he has to drop out of the race because it is so obvious." And so I think they have put politics above doing their job, and so I hope tomorrow they're willing to answer questions. Sadly, Larry, I expect in the hearing tomorrow for them to play the same sort of dodging, refusing to take accountability and refusing to answer basic questions. How many threats were there against Donald Trump? Why was there not more agents assigned? Why were there not drones? Why were there not helicopters? I expect them to dodge every one of those questions because they don't view themselves as accountable to the American team. Where's Christopher Ray? I mean, you've got the deputy FBI. You're not getting the actual FBI director. I mean, I think he's got a lot of explaining to do, but I'm running out of time, Senator. I just got two lightning round questions for you. Number one, news break in today. Maybe it's not new news. Joe Biden's going to run against the Supreme Court, and I'm going to bet you that Ms. Kamala Harris is going to run against the Supreme Court because they didn't like the immunity question, and they say they're not going to go for court packing, but of course they really do want court packing, just like FDR. And of course, the irony is if you had term limits on the Supreme Court justices, famous liberals like William O. Douglas and Ruth Bader Ginsburg wouldn't have been around to be famous liberals. But you've got a quick one on, just give me a lightning round on war against the Supreme Court. How bad is that? Look, it's terrible. This administration is the most radical administration we've ever seen. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, they've decided they're willing to try to destroy the Supreme Court to undermine its legitimacy, to undermine the rule of law. Why? Because it's the one branch of government they don't control right now, and they're angry that their justice is willing to defend the Constitution, defend the Bill of Rights, defend free speech and religious liberty in the Second Amendment. And so they're willing to burn it to the ground. This is an assault on the protections of all of our constitutional rights, and the irony is this is from the people that bang their chest and say they're all about democracy. These are actions that indicate a contempt for democracy. Last one, sir, I promise. Last one, 30 seconds. J.D. Vance, good man, fabulous story. Up from nothing, Yale Law School, I don't think you went to Yale, you went to Harvard, but you'll concede it's a decent law school, you know, at least a B or B plus law school. Can't get him yet, cannot get him to say that he is in favor of pro-growth tax cuts or extending the Trump tax cuts or the deregulation. It's an odd story. He's good on energy, he's good on a lot of things, okay, but he will not have the growth message that President Trump has so brilliantly portrayed at the whole campaign, including the convention and including recently. Do we have to have an intervention with J.D. Vance? What do we need to do to get him on the growth side, the supply side, Senator Cruz? Well, listen, J.D. Vance is a good man, he's a friend, he's someone who I barn stormed all over the state of Ohio campaigning with him to support him getting elected to the Senate to begin with, but there's an awful lot in the press that are focusing on J.D.'s views on foreign policy or on anything else. Let's be clear. When this election is over, the President is going to be Donald J. Trump, and it's going to be Donald Trump's policies that matter, and you and I both know what Trump's going to do because he did it before. We're going to cut taxes, we're going to repeal job killing regulations, we're going to stand with our friends, we're going to defeat our enemies, and we're going to secure the borders, and we know that because Trump's done it already. Yes, sir, got it. I hear you loud and clear, Senator Ted Cruz with the great state of Texas, thanks for coming back on the show, appreciate it very much. Thanks, Larry. All right, coming up next for former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh. He says the Fed's bloated balance sheet is the real root of inflation, and it ain't over yet. Couldn't be right here on set to talk about it. I'm Kudlow, you know, tax cuts, pro growth. If you cut tax rates, by the way, you'll actually increase tax revenues. Think about that, we'll be right back. I have been the Rockies. The snowy scenes of winter make for a beautiful sight, but at the Bridgestone Winter Driving School. It's also the chance for some action with limited traction. We're one of very, very few purpose built winter driving schools in the whole world. Using a combination of classroom training and time behind the wheel, instructors train students on how to safely navigate the roads when temperatures plunge. I'm putting you on a surface that most people automatically don't want to be driving on, and then I'm taking away a whole bunch of the safety net that we normally have in our regular cars. Okay, ABS is now off. This introductory course started out with disabling the anti-lock brake system. Sorry to pump the brakes the old-fashioned way in order to stop on this icy track. It really is much more challenging without the ABS. Next, we experimented with understeer and oversteer. Oh yeah, I'm feeling it slide. Going around in circles and getting a little sideways. Winter driving is all about physics. Talk to me a little bit about that. 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Fox Business, America's business network. ♪♪ Alright, former Fed governor and man about town, Kevin Warsh. He writes in today's Wall Street Journal Interest Race. Our side show in the Fed drama, Kevin Warsh, former Fed Reserve governor. And now distinguished fellow, I'm just going to, at the Hoover Institution. You're still teaching school out there, aren't you? Still teaching. It's extraordinary. The best line in this whole piece, as I just said to you all said, the high priest of central bank dogma might consider it blasphemy. But monetary policy has something to do with money. Now, we have charts up there to show a good picture of the so-called monetary base or the Fed's balance sheet. Let's put that chart up. There it is. It has just exploded in the last 15, 20 years. And it's come down only a tiny bit. And that's the point you make in this article. It's not this obsession with the Fed funds rate. It's this because the monetary policy is about money. And money is about inflation. That's exactly right, Larry. So going into this meeting this week, you hear all the commentators. All the central bankers talking about, are they going to cut rates this week? Or will it be September or November? But they're hiding the ball. The ball is really about the financial assets. The central bank bought starting in 2008 crisis. But it accelerated during the pandemic. And when it accelerated in 2021 and 2022, sure enough, the explosion of money, the explosion of the printing press, inflation went with it. Over the last three quarters or so, they started to bring down the balance sheet just a little bit and sure enough, inflation fell. What worries me, of course, is that they're going to get out of that business. They've been signaling in the last several months the balance sheet run off is slowing down and it'll stop soon. And as a result, I don't know what their theory of inflation is, but I think a better theory of inflation says they're going to have a problem if they keep at it. Well, that's the thing. And let's just put that chart up on the full screen and get one more time so viewers can get a look at what Kevin Wars is talking about. You can see the explosion from the financial meltdown just before he came on to Federal Reserve. But what, 2006? That was just told me. And the balance sheet was about $800 billion. It's like any bank has a balance sheet or the footings of a bank. This is the footings of the Federal Reserve except there's all underwater. You can see the explosion, two explosions, one after the financial meltdown over mortgages and then the second one over the pandemic. They didn't even race the second one, which they should have since the pandemic's been over for quite some time. Now, your point is it makes you suspect, makes anybody who understands this suspect, that the lower inflation or disinflation may not be permanent. That's exactly right. Money is a dirty word around central bankers. It's a dirty word in the Harvard Economics Department. But good common sense says too much money chasing too few goods is the key to inflation. You and I don't know exactly where the economy is going to be 12 months from now. There's elections, there's changes in policy. But we know if you keep the printing press going that this improvement we're seeing and inflation is going to disappear, the Fed doesn't seem so worried about inflation. That's why they last November promised there'd be all these interest rate cuts this year. American people are still worried and for good reason. A huge factor. The other thing you mentioned in there is Mr. J. Powell, not to be personal, but on a policy basis, has actually encouraged the federal government for federal spending, massive federal spending, which shows no signs of abating. That's right. Those assets we were talking about, those assets are, Larry. They're treasuries that the Secretary of Treasury are issuing. I don't believe over the last decade, especially over the last four years, that Congress would have authorized this massive surge in spending in 2021 and 2022 if they thought it was going to be expensive. What kept the interest rates down because the Fed were buying those assets? It wasn't a willing buyer showing up in the Treasury market. It was a captive audience, the Federal Reserve. Yields are falling this year. Yields are lower than they otherwise would be. Stocks are booming. It doesn't tell you anything's tight. Financial markets are that loose, right? Lower rates and higher share prices. It may not be the only thing, but it means what? Credit conditions are not tight. That's right. They keep saying that the monetary policy is tight. It's restrictive. Look at Wall Street. It's hard to find that at all. The facts are coming back under the market. Since Chairman Powell and his colleagues promised in December that they'd be cutting rates, there's been $12 trillion of U.S. stock market wealth that camouflages a lot of sins. It's certainly a good way to get through the election season, but it's not a good way for long-term prosperity. What you want them to do? What I want them to do is focus on the balance sheet, focus on assets, shrink the balance sheet back down to size, let the private sector grow. Yeah, that's it, could have some tax cuts and deregulation, could have limited government spending too. That wouldn't be such a bad thing. We should try that. A deregulatory tax cut is exactly what this economy needs to sustain itself next year. Yeah, well said. Kevin Worsch, pretty good stuff. Former Fed Governor, man about town, right? Not at all. Still decent school. If those Stanford kids would just listen to you, huh? We want them back in the classroom. That's another segment. Not in the protest lines. It's another segment, but you said it. Coming up here, Kamala Harris is handcuffing Israel. What we need is some Trump-tough foreign policy. We'll talk about that with former director of National Intelligence, John Radcliffe. And remember, folks, you can catch Kudlow on Monday through Friday, 4 p.m. Eastern, right here on Fabulous Fox Business. And if you can't catch us at four for some crazy reason, please. Text your favorite nine-year-old. And she will show you how to DBR the show. And you will never miss a supply-side policy. I'm Kudlow. He's Worsch. We'll be right back. [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] "Mornings with Maria on Fox Business." 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But notice, once you get to EF three, this is where it gets severe to extreme to incredible. I want to give you an example of what an EF three looks like that was on the cusp of an EF four, right? So this is 165 to 166 mile per hour winds, right? If you are in this storm and you are hearing this, you're not going to be able to tell the difference. The EF scale is truly for us to keep historical note of how powerful these systems are, right? And that was back in March. Now we take a look at areas like more Oklahoma, which historically, you look at this as a powerful EF five, where it jumps off the scale for the EF rating. And then you look at all the debris that is flying and why it's so important to stay in tune when there is severe weather that is moving through your region. This was back in more Oklahoma back in 2013. And oftentimes, we hear, "Oh, it'll never happen to me." But about 1,200 tornadoes hit the U.S. each and every year on average. 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Whether you're on Main Street or Wall Street, Fox Business is invested in you. Go to foxbusinesspodcast.com or wherever you download your favorite podcast, America is listening. [MUSIC] There's a lot more that America and Israel can do. I think I don't see a coherent joint strategy in place. The only way to restore quiet in peace in the Middle East. All right, Israeli Minister, former Minister Naftali Bennett. Joining us now to talk about this whole explosion, John Radcliffe, former Director of National Intelligence. John, welcome as always. So, you know, I just sometimes one and one don't make two, but it just seems to me that after Kamala Harris met with Bibi Netanyahu, she issued such a statement that was more of a criticism of Israel than Hamas and bingo within 24 hours or so or whatever, all of a sudden Hezbollah starts raining down rockets on these poor children playing soccer or European football in Israel. I don't know, is that a coincidence in your judgment, John Radcliffe? It's clearly not a coincidence. What it is is it's a clear demonstration how clueless Kamala Harris is about geopolitics generally and the importance of what American leaders or prospective leaders say and what they signal to our allies and to our adversaries. And so when she went out and put a statement after meeting Netanyahu and said, "I will not be silent" and essentially portrayed a false narrative that somehow Israel was attacking innocent Palestinians as opposed to Israel responding to an attack by Hamas Palestinians, she sent a message to Hamas and to its puppet master Iran and to Hezbollah that these kind of actions against Israel would be tolerated by the Biden-Harris administration. Look, she's off to a terrible start in terms of trying to demonstrate that she has the capability to serve as commander-in-chief and make good decisions. The first thing that she did was to blow off Bibi Netanyahu's speech before Congress that she was supposed to convene instead she went to a sorority meeting. And then she comes out with these comments that as you correctly point out, Larry, really led directly to a Hezbollah attack on innocent Israelis, something that is becoming all too common under the Biden-Harris administration and would continue under a Harris administration. And, you know, not to put too fine a point on it, but I don't really care what Hezbollah says. They're using Iranian rockets. We've seen this story before. And the fact is that Jews inhabitants are pro-Israel Arabs, so it's just as much as they're doing after Israel. But the thing is, John, here's what I don't get. I want a policy which we had briefly right after the horrible October 7th massacre. What happened to let Israel finish the job? Let Israel finish off Hamas once and for all. Or whatever happened to the de-homossification policy that some of us talked about then, like the de-notification policy after World War II, or even at a minimum, John Radcliffe. When will the United States government, okay, the Biden-Harris administration, restore the sanctions on Iranian oil, because that's their source of financing for Hamas and Hezbollah, the sanctions, the oil production, which China is buying, of course. Those are just some little ideas how to make this story better so that, you know, baby Netanyahu can say we know good over evil, okay? We win, they lose. I don't hear any of that stuff anymore. Well, you're not going to, Larry. You're not going to hear it from a Biden-Harris administration. You're not going to hear it from a Harris administration. You're only going to hear those things if Donald Trump returns to the White House in January. I mean, if Kamala Harris is elected, we'll have four more years of the same disastrous decisions and policies that have been bolded and enriched around for the last few years. To your point, Larry, about what happened was the Hamas wing of the Democratic Party, the progressives, got loud, and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris wanted to win a presidential election, and they let that dictate policy. They put politics and power over national security. I can't tell you, Larry, how important the Israelis are to us. They are an indispensable intelligence partner to us in the most important volatile region in the Middle East, and the Biden-Harris administration has flipped it on his head, and what's most concerning to me, Larry, is Kamala Harris wants to run the exact same disastrous foreign policy playbook that Joe Biden has been running for the last four years. Case in point, her chief foreign policy advisor is a guy named Philip Gordon. Who's Philip Gordon? Well, he was a State Department official under Barack Obama and was an integral part in drafting the disastrous Iranian nuclear deal that enriched Iran, gave them billions of dollars, and really put them on the path to start all of this in the first place, all of which you know, Larry, first hand, Donald Trump reversed, and the only thing that changes this is Donald Trump and a maximum pressure campaign that left Iran poor or broker and less influential than any time in the last 20 years, but the good news to the American people is we can put our foot back on the throat of the Iranian terrorist regime as soon as Donald Trump gets back in the White House. I reckon so. John Ratcliffe, thank you very much. Appreciate it. I didn't know about Gordon. I forgot all about that, but that's a very important point. Same guy. You're going to have same results, which are not good. Anyway, John, thanks ever so much. Now we're going to switch gears a little bit and bring back Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn, great friend of the show, great friend, period. Senator Blackburn, big crypto night down there in Nashville, Tennessee, which is just about the hottest place in the entire country. Here's some of the things that Donald Trump said about Bitcoin and crypto. Take a listen, please. Bitcoin is not threatening the dollar. The behavior of the current U.S. government is really threatening the dollar. On day one, I will fire Gary Gensler. I will appoint a new SEC chairman who believes America should build the future, not block the future. If we don't embrace crypto and Bitcoin technology, China will, other countries will, they'll dominate, and we cannot let China dominate. Yeah, you know that many good reasons. He's right. That last one by itself cannot let China dominate. They're poking around in crypto too. But we still have some advantages. He mentioned a Bitcoin stockpile. Anyway, you were at this thing, Senator Blackburn. Tell us about it. Yes, indeed. It was quite a convention and a lot of Bitcoiners were there. I was so pleased that the president spoke. Following his remarks, Vivek Ramaswami and I did a fireside chat and talked about how Bitcoin and the opportunity to self-custody, the opportunity to have financial freedom and transactional freedom and be able to use Bitcoin as a store of value. That is important to Americans and we think that the federal government is beginning to have a strategic reserve of Bitcoin. They already have 210,000 Bitcoin. Most of that has come through asset forfeitures. And we think that the ability to begin to build that reserve use those funds to pay down the debt at a point in the future. We think that that is a wise choice. The interesting point, paying down the debt. On this point about the stockpile. He mentioned the gold stockpile in Fort Knox. By the way, that is like the strategic petroleum reserve, which has been ruined by the Biden's. But the point is that's not the Federal Reserve's domain. That's actually the executive branch's domain, or it's got to have congressional appropriations. So you can get that done. I guess what I'm going on this is better to stop central bank digital currencies, which the Treasury and the Fed always want because they want to control everything, right? I mean, Trump's not a, he doesn't want a weaker dollar. He thinks they'll miss, this competition will make it a stronger dollar. Absolutely it will. And I'm glad you mentioned the central bank digital currency. That is something that I am very much opposed to. And I know that you remember Larry when China wanted to load the digital yuan onto everybody's phone when they went to the Beijing Olympics. And of course we blocked our athletes and warned others not to do this because when you have a central bank digital currency, that leads to social credits. That gives the government the right to turn your currency on and off and control what you can spend your money on. We never want to go there. And Bitcoin is the opposite of that. You can say it is a digital gold. You can talk about the freedom that for someone to self custody and to maintain that transactional freedom, it's the exact opposite. And the other thing is I'm not being personal here because I know Gary Gensler a long time. But the reality is Gary Gensler at the SEC has been just as opposed to the development of crypto as the treasury and the Fed have. It's no better. And also he's piled on rule after rule which has done a lot of damage to business. So it wouldn't be bad in the normal course of affairs, shall we say, to replace him. Well, I think that it was a huge applause line. And the president got a standing ovation when he said let's get Gary Gensler out of the way because the way the SEC has gone after some of these companies. And we want to see innovation in this sector. And when you have Gary Gensler and the SEC and some of this administration blocking innovators at every turn, then it is frustrating. But you know, Larry, not only when it comes to Bitcoin and to crypto assets, you're seeing this across the board. They don't want to innovate when it comes to clean coal technologies for energy or they don't want to expand into small modular reactors for nuclear. And it goes on and on and on with every industry. What they want is power. They want control. They want to make the decisions. And thank goodness we have gotten a good decision on Chevron. We've had the court kind of go after the FCC for one of their funds. And that's a good thing because we need to get the federal government out of the way out of your pocketbook off your back and free up free markets so that people can innovate and solve the problems that we all face every day. Yes, ma'am. As one wag put it, it's time for change. Someone said that. It's time for a change. It's time for a drop. We appreciate it. See you soon. Thanks very much. Coming up, folks. Kamala Harris can't escape her record period. End of sentence would be very brief. We've got Liz Peake coming up and Caroline Downey when Kudlow returns. ♪♪ Before the market forecast, get your weather forecast. Britta Merwin and Craig Herrera have live coverage every week day morning at five with box weather on Fox Business. ♪♪ ♪♪ Few World War II images endure like Rosie the Riveter. In the iconic picture of the muscular bandana, we celebrate that in you, there is nothing we can't do. Six million women pressed into service. They were housewives, they were mothers, turned war heroes. They weren't in the military. They welded in shipyards, assembled B-17s, and built bombs, while American men fought overseas. Here, 1800 women are employed, and they have to be mechanics. War aviation production gets the feminine touch. These are the invisible warriors here on the home front. On the same day President Biden greeted the leader of America's World War II adversary Japan at the White House, lawmakers bestowed their highest civilian honor on 24 surviving Rosie's, the Congressional Gold Medal. 98-year-old May Cryer of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is one of the oldest Rosies still living. Up until 1941, it was a man's world. They didn't know how capable us who haven't where did they? As we might say in Brooklyn, the Rosies got it going on. Cryer left the Capitol crowd with sage advice. My last thought is, remember these four little words, we can do it. And in the case of the Rosies, not only can they do it, but they did it. Early in we'll hear about Moscow, which hear about Rosie. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ I think here in Arizona, the most important thing is to find the perfect sunlight, and ours just happened to be our front yard. Nicole Hood is very proud of her front yard garden. When she says wouldn't be as lush and bountiful without farm yard. So for about three seasons, I tried to plant on my own with no success, and then a friend told me about farm yard, and Rebecca and Troy came over and just kind of gave me some of the fundamentals on how to plant, how to water, and suddenly everyone in my neighborhood thought I had a green thumb, and I'm going to completely take credit for it. We are a design, build, and maintain Edible Garden Company. So we build custom raised beds for our clients. We make our own compost. We do irrigation systems. Rebecca Kidwell, co-owner of Farmyard LLC. So she and her husband, who runs a company with her, give their clients as little or as much assistance as they want or need. Their main interest is to show people how to grow their own food. So many people come from back east or in the Midwest, where they're used to dropping a seed into the soil and it immediately taking. And so out here, so many people are frustrated with growing because they think that they can do the same in our desert soils. That's not the case. You can grow fruits and vegetables 12 months out of the year in Arizona, according to Kidwell. She's preparing for spring and summer by planting melons and pumpkins and corn that she says thrive in triple digit weather. There's something to getting your hands in the soil, grounding, getting dirty, you know, that's kind of fun to do at the end of the day. And getting to share, I mean, having a garden in the front yard, we have met so many neighbors. We've kind of become a little stop on people's walks. I would tell anyone that the opportunity to grow your own food and allow your children to be part of the process is so wonderful. Talk about getting your kids to eat their vegetables. Hood says her children are just as excited as she is to harvest the garden and sit down together as a family for a healthy meal they help to grow. Anita Roman, Fox 10 News. All right, join me now. Liz Peek, syndicated columnist, Fox News contributor, and Caroline Downey, staff writer and national review. Ladies, thank you very much. Liz Peek, Bernie Sanders with lipstick. Brutal. Really brutal. Talked a little bit about it on the radio. And it's all this other business tied into it. She's not really against a ban on fracking. Yes, she is. Yeah, no, I mean, they're trying to completely redo Kamala Harris' history. And she is a progressive San Francisco Democrat. That's who she is. And she is always aligned with the Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren. By the way, those are the people who've come out most energetically in support of her. They love her policies. Larry, what she's advocating is indeed Bernie Sanders light. It's not even light. Bernie Sanders intends. And the country should be very worried about that. I think that is what the Trump team needs to talk about, that her policies banning fracking, off-shore drilling beings, a no-no, and obviously higher taxes on everything, et cetera. That's where they have to go because people don't like. She's out of the mainstream on almost every major issue. Well, speaking of her top supporters, Senator Elizabeth Warren told one of the Sunday talk shows that with certainty, a president Harris would go for amnesty and citizenship for the 10 or 11 million illegals. How's that playing at National Review of Caroline? Well, if there's any other question that this revisionist narrative that she wasn't the borders are, keeps going, I mean, that's evidence that she's kind of an anarchist candidate, which I think Bernie Sanders was. She abandoned the border, you know, she's also an authoritarian candidate. She supported the bail fund to, you know, get those riders in 2020 off the hook. But actually, I researched this. She, in some ways, is to the left of Bernie Sanders, Larry, because Bernie Sanders resisted getting rid of the filibuster. She wanted to get rid of the filibuster so she could pass the Green New Deal. She laughed at Biden in 2020 at a debate when he said, "Oh, you know, the Constitution is an obstacle to instituting a gun ban via executive order." She has no regard for our institutions or our Constitution in a way that I think actually surpasses Bernie Sanders. Zero heads, Tyler Durden, you read him? He's very good. I'm sure that's a pen name. Abolish ICE, compared ICE to the KKK, ban fracking, that's too easy, defund the police, healthcare to illegals, ban private health insurance. I mean, it's quite a track record. It is, and her track record for the last three and a half years is absolutely zero. I mean, what has she done? It is amazing to me that the media, who has just been so substantially embarrassed by covering up Joe Biden's mental deficiencies now, is completely on board with literally erasing her history. For example, she now is being touted in some quarters as being a law and order candidate. And yet, when she was in California, she actually supported Proposition 47, which, like Alvin Bragg, basically decriminalized a whole lot of things and made the state more lawless, so she really has no core. She wants to ban the fracking ban, but she can't ban that ban, but she's right out there with it. That's confusing. Really too hard. Babylon, anyway. Liz Peake and Caroline Downing, I'll be right back with my last... 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A Google spokesperson telling Fox Business, "There was no manual action taken on these predictions. Our systems have protections against auto-complete predictions associated with political violence, which we're working as intended prior to the horrific event occurring. We're working on improvements to ensure our systems are more up to date." That's Business. I'm C.J. Poppa. With sweeping canyon views, sitting atop a ridge in the foothills east of Chico, California, it's easy to see why they called this town "Paradise." "Come on, let's go, let's go!" But on November 8th, 2018, Paradise became an inferno. "I remember looking in my rearview mirror back up at the town of Paradise and it looked like a bomb had gone off." The campfire destroyed 95% of the buildings in Paradise and killed 85 people. At the time, it was the deadliest wildfire in modern U.S. history. "Chard trees and empty lots still dot the town of Paradise proof of how the campfire forever changed this place, but everywhere you look, signs of rebuilding." "So everybody thought it was really important to take this old wooden sign, rebuild it, show everybody that the city is still there, that the town is still alive." The fastest-growing city in California, two years in a row, about 3,000 single-family homes have been rebuilt in Paradise since the fire, along with 500 multi-family units. New homes in Paradise are now required to include a five-foot non-combustible zone all around them and are inspected yearly to ensure that firefighters would be able to defend the property. In addition, a siren warning system is being installed in Paradise and evacuation routes are being widened. But some feel left behind in the recovery, and there are those still living in trailers in Paradise five years after the fire. "It used to be great. Paradise just went to hell on the handbags since the fire." Though people are returning, and the town seen an influx of younger families. "When they come to Paradise, as my parents did decades ago, they see that this is a good place to raise a family." It's not the same town as it was before the fire, but it's also not completely different. "I think it's that community that is rebuilding Paradise and has never let that sparkle die." A town rising from the ashes. "There is a sense of hope." Paradise is not lost. Max Gordon, Fox Weather. Hello to our friends watching in Costa Rica on CableTica. Thank you for choosing Fox. Keep it right here. When news breaks. And we begin with this Fox News alert. America turns to Fox News Channel. We are feeling the impact all across the country. Stream it now on the Fox News International app. It's the place for top political coverage. "It's a very big day here at the White House." With must-see insight and analysis, you won't get anywhere else. "We will never be the media mob." And stay on top of the US markets with Fox Business. Watch your favorite shows live or get them on demand. Download the Fox News International app now from the Apple or Play Stores, also available on Amazon Fire. So it's policy. It's never personal. But the fact is, Vib Kamala cannot ban her fracking ban. Or any of her other policies. That's all. They're out there. And let the games begin. And we'll- Listen to the all-new Bret Baer podcast featuring Common Ground. In-depth talks with lawmakers from opposite sides of the aisle, along with all your Bret Baer favorites. Like his all-star panel and much more. Available now at foxnewspodcast.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
