that really mean for the fed? what is the fed really going to do? there is a chance the fed may not do what the market wants the fed to do. that will create volatility. that could move rates higher. that is a concern overall for the market and that is some of volatility we're seeing here today. liz: phillip, volatility it is up. we have the vix up a couple percentage points here. we don't often see that. good to see you. thank you so much. we appreciate it. >> thank you. liz: all right, march did go out like a lion but april coming in like afraid did i cat, at least with the dow down 230 points. nasdaq only index in the green today. [closing bell rings] tomorrow we get the jolts report. that could affect the markets. go daddy founder entrepreneur, bob parsons will be here. we'll see you tomorrow. ♪. david: hello, everyone, welcome to a special edition of "kudlow," i'm david asman in for

larry kudlow. breaking hours ago a massive airstrike targeting iran's embassy complex in syria, reportedly eliminating one of tehran's senior military commanders. several iranian diplomats were killed in addition to the general. they're vowing a harsh military response to the attack we'll talk about it with wyoming senator john barrasso in just a moment. but first to the center of the action, trey yingst is live in tel aviv with the very latest on all of this. trey. >> reporter: hey, david, good afternoon. we're learning more about this rare day time strike in damascus, syria, that reportedly killed a top iranian general. he is responsible for the irgc activities across the middle east specifically in syria and lebanon this individual was responsible for coordinating the weapons shipments from iran to these locations that could threaten not just american forces but of course israeli troops operating in the northern part of this

country. all of this in response to escalating tension across the middle east and we do know that the foreign minister of syria is responding to the strike earlier today. take a listen. >> translator: we strongly condemn this criminal act carried out by the zionist enemy which led to the death of innocent civilians passing by on the street. we emphasize our position beside our brothers in iranian embassy and islamic republic of iran. we assure syria and islamic republic don't forget their enemies. >> reporter: the location here is critical in the story. the strike target ad building next to iran's embassy in the capital of syria. the question if and when iran will respond to this strike earlier today that reportedly killed seven members of the irgc. david. david: incredible. trey yingst for the report. for more let's bring in wyoming

senator john barrasso. he is a member of the foreign relations committee. this is clearly a targeted attack. they got him and bottom his deputy. they lost a whole cohort of bad actors there. and we know in order to do such a targeted hit you have to have the best intel imaginable. it shows once again what the heck are we doing trying to micromanage their war when nobody knows better about what's going on in the middle east than the israeli intel does, right? >> well i think that's absolutely right but what we see here is today iran is the world's number one state sponsor of terrorism. you see it with the houthis, with hamas, with hezbollah and they continue to fund and train and arm all of those so when we have a weakened joe biden in the white house what we're seeing increased activity around the world of bad actors and the world is a much more dangerous place. after what we saw in

october 7th with the attacks on israel by hamas, i talked to prime minister netanyahu just a week or so ago, i'm going to continue to stand with the people of israel as they try to do everything they need to do to eliminate hamas. larry: i'm going to ask you a question, you may not be able to answer, you may not know the answer but i would like your opinion on it. do you think that the israelis told biden officials before the attack happened? >> i don't know the answer to that. what we do know there is a very strained relationship right now between the president and the prime minister and i expect that to continue as the prime minister does what he needs to do to protect the people of israel from future attacks from hamas. larry: david: we have to remember not too long ago our iranian envoy lost his job, he mishandled, intel information that may have passed into iranian hands for all we know. we don't know for sure.

he is the teaching in yale university, training the next contingent of foreign service officers which is a problem itself. that must have sent shivers through the intel agencies of israel the fact that this guy might have been mishandling information that could have helped israel's enemies. >> that sent shivers on the republican side of aisle because of this administration cozying up to hamas when they shouldn't be doing that at all as a result of president's concern about his own re-election efforts in this country and outcry of people on the far left-wing of democratic party who are continuing to be anti-israel and anti-semitic. david: let me move on to some domestic issues here because we got you for a good bite of time.

biden fossil, their mandates are impossible to reach goals. sometimes it is good to make goals beyond your reach but in this case it is putting a a lot of people out. they put this on food friday it would be buried by the weekend. the epa put standards on the truckers would essentially do deep damaging with the trucking industry. in fact they claim out with a statement. i will read it to you. ata, the american truckers association, opposes this rule in the current form because the post-2030 targets remain entirely unachievable given the current state of zero emission technology. do you think that these new standards are unachievable? >> yeah. once again joe biden's actions are it having the throat of the american economy and at the same time playing right into the hands of china. i thought it was bad enough when they put all these mandates, trying to get all of us to buy electric cars. well good friday as you mentioned they have come out

with mandates on electric trucks as we, even less achievable, more expensive. it's delusional this is the effort to eliminate gas-powered usuals and trucks in america. people don't want to buy these vehicles. they can't afford these vehicles and certainly here in wyoming where we drive under severe weather conditions and great distances they're not at all practical here. the cost this will put, david on consumers who have to buy the products that are more expensive to ship. david: that's right. >> all of those things are going to hurt consumers and where do the batteries come from? china. once again playing right into the hands of china. david: it it not just the big trucking companies. people say oh, they can eat the cost, big corporations 60%, they want by 2032, that is only eight years from now, they want 60% of urban delivery trucks, many belong to mom-and-pop companies, not the big corporations, 60% of

those trucks they want to be electric in just eight years. i mean i'm sorry, that seems like an impossible goal. i mean it is crazy to have a goal that can't be reached. it just shows how detached they are from reality? >> and detached under, this is, this is economic suicide in the name of climate science. to show you how detached they are to your point, so the epa made this announcement about how much carbon will be avoided going into the atmosphere and it is going to take 30 years to avoid a certain amount of carbon. well it is the same exact amount china and india put into the atmosphere added to the carbon footprint last year alone. they will penalize the trucking industry, penalize the drivers, penalize consumers to accomplish in 30 years what china and india are adding in climate to the atmosphere in one year alone. this is wrong-headed. this administration. david: they're also penalizing

our electrical grids. there is this statistic came out. by 2030, ev trucks, just ev trucks alone, if they reach their mandates will consume 11% of california east electricity. that is to say, over 10% of our electricity will be devoted just to these truck evs. that doesn't leave us enough for the other stuff like our heating in winter, et cetera. >> when you do the math on think any of this, one truck charging station would use amount of electricity as a city. david: wow. >> you don't have the electricity. we don't have the power to do it. they're shouting down coal-fired power plants, natural gas fired power plants, they're shutting those down and there are enough wind turbines or solar panels in the world to make up for the energy that this administration is shutting down undermining our energy security. the biden administration told

the epa, focus on climate and prioritize that over energy that is available, affordable or reliable. david: relatively clean by the way. the natural gas has cleaned the air over the past 10 years remarkably. you mentioned china. this is something i didn't really know much about but the department of energy under the tutelage of jennifer granholm, the secretary there, has cooperation deals with the chinese government on a.i. research? really? i mean a.i. -- the chinese have been stealing our technology and our ideas and all of our innovations for years and yet we want to give them kind of a leg up in their research on a.i.? what is that about? >> yeah, the biden administration is much too cozy with the people of china and thus the chinese communist party. we are doing world class research. we need to do that on energy with artificial intelligence but, china's trying to steal it. it seems to me the secretary of

energy is making it easier for them to do it. china's always wanted to steal our trade secrets. that is nothing new. we don't need to make them easy for them to do it. the head of the fbi has come out, saying what china is trying to do can undermine our economic security, our national security, it is just wrong. we need to stop this arrangement that the administration has and the inspector general, the department of energy even came to the senate and said that she doesn't have the resources that she needs to do the oversight that is necessary, to watch all of this activity that is happening with the department of energy, the inspector general needs to be able to have full oversight. david: after the pandemic, the lab problem this is another a.i. labs, we should have learned our lesson by now. one final thing, they're giving me a wrap but we're not producing as much oil as we used to. the administration was bragging a couple months ago, yes it is going up. domestic oil production was

going up but get this, these are the latest numbers that have come out, in december we produced 13.3 million aerials a day. in january we're producing 800,000 barrels a day less, 12.5 million. what is happening there? we're going in the wrong direction? >> this administration from day one has been on a war, declared war against american energy. they want iran to produce more energy. okay when they sell that oil. for saudi arabia, for russia at a point but they're against american energy. it is a war on american energy. production that is a result of this administration's religion of climate and it is bad for our economy. we can protect our environment without hurting our economy. joe biden still hasn't learned that lesson. david: i remember when jennifer granholm, our energy secretary was asked how much oil is consumed by america in a day or a week or a month, she had no answer.

they have these goals that are unrelated to how much energy we really need and if we're producing less oil, that much less oil, if that trend continues down, that's very bothersome and concerning for all americans. >> these are good jobs for american workers. we do it better than any place else in the world. we in wyoming are america's breadbasket for. most beautiful place in the world. come see us. you see what respect we have for our environment and workers. david: nobody that cares about the environment nor more than the people that live in the environment like jackson hole. happy easter to you. >> thank you, david. david: coming up why the liberal push for basic income across blue cities will end up backfiring. we have monica crowley and jason trennert when "kudlow" continues. ♪.

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david: remember when hard work actually paid off? not anymore. illinois democrats wants guaranteed basic income regardless of immigration status. our own kelly saberi in chicago with deails on this. hi, kelly. >> reporter: david, the plan would send payments of $1000 a month to certain people.

it is very vague right now. would go to those that provide care for a child or a different specified dependent or one recently gave birth or adopted a child or someone enrolled in educational or vocational program. opponents say the bill has not addressed the immense cost to fund a plan like this. there is concern what will the money be spent on. the text of the bill calls the payments quote, unconditional. we reached out to the senator from chicago for clarification but have not heard back yet. >> i estimate the cost to illinois taxpayers could be greater than $10 billion per year. and these funds could be far better utilized invested in our crumbling infrastructure, improving education and supporting public safety which benefits all of the residents of the state of illinois. >> reporter: proponents say these payments would not incentivize unemployment. >> they don't reduce employment.

what they do is they give families, again agency, dignity, choice, the ability to take care of themselves. >> reporter: there are over 30 different variations of a guaranteed basic income program around the nation. the biggest ones include here in cook county which includes the city of chicago, spending $42 million on 500-dollar per month payments. in los angeles and some cities in new york, those cities all together have paid out $80 million. in texas republican state senator paul bettencourt asked the state's attorney general to declare a harris county guaranteed income program as unconstitutional. this comes as other states around the country could begin banning this as well. because if this is successful, it will set the tone for these other programs. at least six other states already banned, placed restrictions or are in the process of preemptivelily banning guaranteed income

programs, david? david: where are they getting the money? they never ask the question. they can't print it. they're not the federal government yet. i appreciate it, kelly saberi. for more on this, let's ask monica crowley former assistant treasury secretary of public affairs and host of the monica crowley podcast and jason trennert, ceo at strategas securities. monica i will go to you on this universal guaranteed income. the states and localities can't print money but the federal government can. you know the people in the biden administration want to apply this nationwide. if there is second biden term, what we see this type of thing roll out? >> absolutely. you're already starting to see movement in that direction. they would love to do it on a nationwide level. these deep blue states, blue areas are guarantying income. that is essentially communism,

equal baseline, equal share of poverty and misery, equal baseline where everybody is relatively economic equal. understand where these people are coming from. this is marxism. that is where they're trying to move all of these areas. to your point about the states they cannot print money so all of these states are imploding. illinois, washington state, california, new york, imploding and on top of that. david: big time. >> you have tsunami of illegal immigration which is draining mass resources in these states. of course they are going to come to the federal government to want bailouts that means you and me. david: california just announced their deficit has been creeping up. first it was supposed to be a surplus. then it was i think three billion. now it is $68 billion, their deficit, because they can't pay for all of this stuff. jason, the other thing that is coming from california of course is this minimum wage increase which is happening overnight for fast-food restaurants. of course a lot of these mcdonald's and burger kings and everything else are

franchises owned by moms and pops who get maybe a 3% profit margin you know. suddenly with a 3% profit margin you have to increase your wages 25%. it went from $15 an hour to $20 an hour. that is going to break them. >> of course. you think about margaret thatcher, socialism is great, but sooner or later you run out of other peoples money. david: right. >> this is where we are now in the country. i think there is actually a war on work. work is seen by a lot of people on the left and a lot of people in popular culture now as almost an inconvenience. that something that provides you with something of value, something that gives you personal worth. here this is an attack, trust me, this is an attack on jobs because these businessmen and women are not going to be able to afford to hire the numbers of people that they want in the past. >> they're just in this bubble, they're in this bubble against reality. by the way sticking for you just a second, you came out with a

great -- larry came out with core cpi, you want just food and energy and other things that really affect people, food, energy, housing clothes utilities, you put together the common man cpi, found it outpaced wages by 7% during the biden administration. >> that's right. david: not 2% core rate. 7%. that is why people are hurting. >> the bureau of labor statistics publishes the core cpi which exclude food and energy but for most people eating and staying warm is pretty core. we have index of things people have to buy every day and every month. what you're finding the cumulative impact of inflation why people are so grumpy. people an say on the other side, real wages are starting to increase, they're still behind. 7% behind where they were three years ago. david: wow. >> their standard of living has deteriorated in the last three years. david: let's be a little more up

beat. rather than thinking after biden second term, think after trump second term. >> yes. david: if there trump wins election, one name, we were kibitzing, one thing i thought, jamie dimon. because he is democrat. saying that trump wants to exclude anybody but a trump-like person. he is an independent thinker. any chance a democrat like jamie dimon, one of the few moderate democrats left in the world would be the treasury secretary? >> look i don't know where president trump is thinking. i know he is i thissing in a lot of different directions for a lot of different cabinet posts. david: you worked there. you -- >> secretary mnuchin was very effective treasury secretary. david: yes he was. >> not only do you need to know the world of finance and president trump is looking at a number of figures including john paulson, investor scott besant, some others, outside the box, robert lighthizer, his trade representative, jamie dimon is on the list. jamie dimon is a long-time

democrat. david: i may differ from certainly the lighthizer mode with regard to trade policy. >> i would tell you that the core element of being treasury secretary is dealing with china, trade policy, sanctions, on all kinds of enemies around the world. so you need somebody who is on the same page with regard to china and i'm not sure jamie dimon would be particularly -- david: not as far as blackstone. chase is -- you. >> really need somebody who is very similar in the thinking and an aggressive approach to china as president trump is. david: they're giving me a wrap but you're going to the trump event this weekend, right? >> yes i am. david: do you think he will make 32 million which is what he wants? >> let's hope so. the lord only knows the country needs a different direction, there -- david: you weren't always, you're not a never-trumper but you were not always just trump guy? >> i've always been pretty positive on the president particularlies as it relates to his economic policies. i think now especially what has gone on over the last several

weeks, not just economically but also culturally in this country we need a change. i feel very strongly about that. >> we need a fix. we need a fix. that will take a lot of dealing with somebody that knows how to fix things, somebody that built a few buildings in life. >> that is donald j. trump. david: folks, thank you very much. jason, wonderful to see you. coming up, remember this, many of those illegal migrants were reportedly released right back in the united states on easter sunday. whatever happened to catch and deport? we'll ask former chad wolf. mark simone and joins me on set to talk about all that when "kudlow" continues ♪

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david: an el paso judge laid a big easter egg yesterday releasing more than 70 migrants who were rounded up after that riot we all saw at the el paso

border involving the texas national guard. joining me, chad world, former dhs secretary and executive director of afpi. chad, with judges like this you have don't need mayorkas. apparently you were telling me in the commercial break, there are a lot of judges have done this come from liberal oriented cities that are releasing migrants as quickly as mayorkas is? >> this is obviously a disappointing ruling. what we see here the state of texas trying to impose some consequences some deterrents in the system as they see thousands of folks streaming across that bothered. when they take the step to arrest these individuals to get them before a court the last thing you want to see the judge is dismissing them because the district attorney there evidently was not ready to start those detention hearings of some sort. so it is a disappointing ruling. i wish, a, the district attorney had been able to present the case better but that the judge indicating, kind of really the

seriousness of the situation, would not just release these folks on their own recognizance which is what he did. david: now you know the bureaucracy at dhs pretty well. aren't there people there, after all it was created after 9/11 t was supposed to focus on our national security. now it seems to be doing anything but that, do you think that the bureaucrats that have been there for years are upset about this? do you think there is any pushback from the people at dhs to what mayorkas is doing, or am i too naive believing there are good people in that bureaucracy? >> i think that is right. particularly as it relates to border patrol and law enforcement officers. these guys take an oath. they get trained to protect, particularly along that border, keep bad people and dangerous things out of this country. when they're sent there, simply to process more and more migrant, they see the flow coming across, right? the chief of the border patrol say he is recently concerned about the national security

threats and the got-aways they're seeing because of this uncontrolled flow coming across that border. so i think there is a lot of folks at dhs beyond or just below the political leadership there are very concerned about the direction that the department, now the country has seen for the last three years. they would like a change. they would like a shift. i just don't think you will see this if you have the president and secretary mayorkas directing the policy. >> of course the president and mayorkas say if we had the bill that didn't get through the senate, if we had that bill, we would have more border agents, they would keep people out. they actually say that do you have any doubt in your mind think would be used for processing rather than for law enforcement work? >> well, it is a great point, right? they're trying to con vicinities the american people they need more and more authority yet they're not using the authority they have. when they do, as you indicate they use it to process more and more individuals in. they also talk about you know the bill would allow them to hire more border patrol agents.

it is about 18-month cycle by the time they get authorization you get people on the line as they go through background checks and training, everything else. it will not have immediate impact on the crisis. what would have an immediate impact actually using that authority they had, authorities that president trump's administration used to secure that border. they had the same authorities. no new laws have been passed. they can utilize some of those same policies that worked, same programs that worked but they choose not to do that. instead they want to blimp it on congress. congress didn't create this crisis in 2021. the biden administration did. they have the ability to solve it today if they wanted to. david: of course related to national security they have the spiking of migrant crime not only individual bad actors are coming across, whole team of bad actors let out of venezuela. president trump was first person mentioned that. turned out he was right.

people poo-pooed him. i am told by people like paul more row, that follow these things domestically, gang wars, i can call them various tribes of bad actors from venezuela, from el salvador, from colombia, who are fighting for territory. so we've created this whole new group of organized criminals, organized crime families that are fighting with each other now? >> well i think that's right. it shouldn't be a surprise. obviously we dealt with ms-13 gang members here in the united states coming from el salvador mainly but other parts as well but when you have this influx you've seen over the last three years where you're looking at seven, nine, maybe up to 11 million individuals coming across that border, obviously there is going to be some bad individuals and criminals in there, particularly from countries like venezuela, nicaragua and others. that is what we're seeing today. there is always crime associated with that and it is being elevated. as these numbers increase, the

number of crimes, the elevated nature of some of these crimes are starting to catch the american people and they're saying enough is enough. i want to see a change. when will we get some order and security back to that border? they're waiting on president biden and secretary mayorkas to announce some new initiatives to say, hey, here is how we're addressing that. unfortunately we don't see that. something new it has the opposite effect. david: chad wolf, thank you for your service, chad. maybe we'll see you back in the next administration, we'll see. thank you for being here. switching gears, the biden administration is spending to the worsening squatter epidemic in america. our own peter doocey at the white house where he had a chance to ask people about it. >> reporter: david. >> this this is the first time. about stories. squatters taking over properties in some cases even suing the homeowners.

>> homeowners are showing up in places that they own where locks have been changed, some squatter moved in and the moment owner has no rights. does president biden think that is right? >> so my understanding that this is obviously a local issue. we are certainly tracking that issue. the rights of property owners and renters must be protected. again everybody wants the same thing. they want to feel safe in their communities. that's what they want. we certainly are tracking these stories. >> reporter: most recent "fox news poll" has donald trump with a 15-point advantage over biden if who would be best to handle the economy f this squatting issue persists or gets worse that number could change. it could get worse for folks here. david. david: quickly on the easter day brouha concerning transgender day and then now with the easter egg hunt, having everything to be scrubbed off that has any relationship with religion, how

is the white house responding to that? somebody apparently, kind of dropped the ball on those easter day issues, right? >> reporter: well, a print reporter got close enough to president biden while the tv folks were being kept back at the easter egg hunt and asked him about this. the quote, speaker johnson called it out, question to the president, speaker johnson called out that easter turned was transgender day. said he was thoroughly uninformed. uninformed how. president biden said i didn't do that. he did that. it happens every march 31st. every march 31st is transgender visibility today. it is just easter is not always march 31st. they kind of double booked easter sunday here but, just as a coincidence of the calendar it seems. david. david: somebody should have kept their eyes open about that coincidence. peter good stuff, appreciate it. let's bring in mark simone, wor

radio show host, and jon levine, politics reporter at "the new york post." gentlemen, good to see you both. mark, what the hell were they thinking? i don't think either they weren't thinking about it at all, they didn't realize that march 31st was easter sunday, which means somebody should be fired because that was a pretty big misjudgment, or, they don't care at all about it. i'm trying to be nice to them but i can't see any winning explanation for this? >> funniest thing today is april fool's day. i don't hear anybody mention it anymore. we're living in a april fool's year. three years of april fool's. squatters have more rights to your house than you do. homeland security is now a smuggling operation. and this, this is a, a religious holiday for easter. why would you wipe off religious symbol. it is a religious holiday. that is what we did. david: john, we had caitlyn jenner on transgender.

do we have the sound bite of caitlyn. on fox news. her reaction to the easter sunday brouha. >> here joe biden is supposed to be a devout christian, a devout catholic and to be honest with you what he did really is flipped the middle finger at all people of religion, even the d.c. a bishop on this weekend on face the nation called him a cafeteria catholic. larry: it's, it's really resonating. might not be important than the over all economy and raising hackles among the american people. >> i feel the president was in a tough situation, as peter said this holiday happens every march 31st. president bide put out statements in 2023 and 2022 on transgender day of visibility. david: by the way, this letter, the proclamation came out day before on saturday. they had 24 hours they could have decided maybe we shouldn't

put out a proclamation. >> if you reschedule transgender day, transact activists throw him under the bus. david: 1% of population is more important than 60 or 70%? >> i'm not saving the right decision. he has unwieldy coalition. hamas democrats over the support of israel. he was probably afraid to upset the wing of party. it wasn't worth it. the biggest issue he doesn't appear to put out the statement. clearly happened without his knowledge. david: even if he had 100% cognitive ability he painted himself into this political corner that he has done so much to kate irto the far left, mark. he can't get out of it. he ends up spending a more sometime with minority of his party, let alone with the minority of the nation than he does concerning his election re-election chances? >> this administration is one big dylan mulvaney. they will learn the lesson from bud light.

joe biden couldn't care about any of this. transgender, he never mentioned it in 47 years of politics. it is just cheap pandering. you're right. it touched a real nerve with people. david: i don't think people will forget it. it is one of those incidents that happen that stick with you throughout the campaign. you better bet trump will make hay with some of it, some advertising. quickly on the squatters, mark mentioned the squatter issue, pat doocy had a chance to ask kgp about it, it gets into the whole issue of property rights, does this administration care -- what are swearer rights at all? what is the purpose of having property rights is what this nation was built on. >> right. david: that is why people come here, because they want property rights. if they are putting squatter rights above property rights of the american people, they're taking away the american dream. >> i think kgp is correct it is a local issue for states and cities to work through. new york is not doing it

correctly. it has been amply covered in the new york post with many articles. somebody goes on vacation, they come home, random person in the house, locks are changed, if you do anything, you get arrested. as you point out our nation was built on property rights. the government turns away from property rights, it will end badly. david: we have to wrap it very quickly. the thing is, there are people like aoc and bernie sanders a national issue, what is local be national, they're doing their best to have government take over, even the horrible public housing they want to expand that in a new way. >> more of pro-criminal, they love the criminal, shoplifting is legal now, let the criminals out of jail. the squatter which is a criminal, quart squatter is criminal. you don't have any rights. david: gent men, thank you very much. israel struck a massive lethal blow to iran's terror network. why won't president biden let

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david: israel appears to have taken out one of iran's top terror puppet masters in a

surprise airstrike in syria but the biden administration keeps telling them what to do, how to do it in the war against hamas. we have elbridge colby, author of strategy of denial, american defense in a age of great power an conflict. thanks for being here. mohammed zea-di, was he kind of like sole -- soleimani was it fair to put him in that league? >> i think so. there were several people. he was a senior guy in the quds force. a very significant figure in iran's sort of elite military, particularly appears ones that were involved in aggressive activities around the region. david: now i asked senator, i asked our senator at the beginning of the show whether or not he thought the israelis had told the united states about the attack before it happened. senator barrasso couldn't confirm or deny it of course, but what do you think? after everything that they have been through with us over, since

october 7, do you think they would trust us enough with that kind of sensitive information? >> i would be pretty surprised. i think that the trust levels between the united states and israel are at pretty historic lows and it is quite concerning. there is already evidence that the iranians are retaliating. this is a worrying situation. david: what happens next? will we see a new front in the north with hezbollah? >> i think, look, i think the reality is that the war in the middle east is likely to go on and that's a key issue going on between israel and the united states. israel's desire, i think justified desire to finish the job against hamas. i don't want to underestimate what that entails. my understanding this is not just about netanyahu. across the israeli political spectrum they believe they need to go into rafah, to finish off hamas, whatever that means. you will never get every last hamas fighter. they can't leave ham has in a situation where they're still

standing strong or at least the perception. hezbollah has been active in the north. they have, israelis evacuated significant areas along the northern border. so i think the war is likely to go on in gaza but it may well expand. i think the key thing for us we should support our friend and coastal lie israel. obviously we want to fight the war in humane as way as possible but we have to recognize it is sadly a very dirty business and it wasn't started by israel. we need to be clear in our own heads, we have lot of forces in iraq and syria frankly hanging out there. that doesn't make any sense. there is indications may have been a suicide boeming attack i believe in syria, may have been in iraq. i think we need to look at rationalizing our position. this is something that president trump and people around him have talked about for sometime. i don't understand why we're just leaving our forces out there to be attacked. david: well, i don't understand

why we trust iranians as much as we do. instead of going after them. donald trump hit soleimani. it was in iraq. that is where our troops are primarily based in the middle east right now. but the point is, i'm just wondering why the united states would not assist israel in an attack like this, getting out a really bad person who is definitely killing israelis. probably endangering and killing americans as well. [i would say you have got to be prepared because 2027, will be in the next presidential term. and admiral, the head of the indopacific command recently

said the chinese are on track. nobody knows what will happen, but the only prudent course for us to be prepared. if we're not, we get enmeshed in a big middle east war we're in a world of hurt beyond where we already are and which is pretty darn bad. larry: if there is more than one conflict could we do it? >> no, we can't. but we can handle it with our allies if we support our allies like israel, like india, like poland making the effort. we have to focus on asia. that doesn't mean abandoning our allies and friends. we have to shift the burden, support those who step up. that is the way to handle f we can walk and chew gum as biden is saying, that is deeply irresponsible, we're asking to get punched in the face and probably lose, god forbid. david: i don't know if he can chew gum. story get about the walking. >> well -- david: elbridge, thank you very much. good to see you, my friend. we have more "kudlow" straight

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thank you so much for watching this special edition of the pokémon tune in tomorrow and kellyanne conway and senator kevin cramer joined kudlow but first, time for my good friend, liz mcdonald next to take you to the next hour. >> good to see you for terrific show. we got congresswoman claudia, nicole malliotakis, sc