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The u.s. military is not equipped to deter those threats. >> do you think we have the strong enough military today in order to achieve that goal? >> no, sir. >> the senate and the house armed services committee voted today in favor of granting general matt has a to serve as defense secretary, typically, a civilian position. the full house vote is expected tomorrow. congress cannot expect confirmation until inauguration day. bret. >> bret: jennifer griffin life of the pentagon. jennifer, thank you. get ready for another examination at her how the justice department and the fbi handled or mishan...

Taking money from foreign dignitaries -- >> they do have a constitutional problem. >> so yes, that's exactly what you lay out is exactly the type of thing that can happen. we actually had some indian businesspeople who said very clearly they would stay at donald trump's hotel because they think it will be nice when they meet the president to say "i'm staying at your hotel." this is a small version of the type of problem we're going to have. donald trump and sherry dillon, the lawyer, are direct in saying that the president doesn't find himself subject to many of the laws that govern federal em...

Some of us might have liked. yeah, it was a pretty good record and when you stack up the millions of jobs that you've seen in the obama administration compared to with what you're getting -- again, we don't know -- donald trump's indicated -- this is a guy who will take credit for the sun coming up tomorrow. we don't know what actually went on. obviously these businesses have great incentive to say that, oh, yeah, of course, we're doing this because of donald trump but we don't know. i'll point out -- go a step further. this goes beyond picking winners as we ordinarily talk about. so what the ...

So what the republicans were yelling about with president obama is that he wants to promote solar energy. he wants to promote clean energy, he's picking winners, that was picking industries. donald trump is picking companies. that is much more pernicious. this is when you associate with authoritarian regimes -- and i'm being polite here -- we don't want to see a gnat rewards individual companies for being nice to him. that's a very, very scary thought. >> i wonder about that. congress cannot legislate for a single company. it's illegal. what you're referring to is when you have a president tha...

Simple piece of legislation that would protect innocent americans from harm and give law enforcement a powerful tool to break up foreign gangs on american soil, if congress cannot even do that the usa is in dire trouble. if kate's law is not voted on, just kate's law then it's a disgrace. because if you stand it alone al it's going to pass. and if kate's law doesn't pass then the world will know which senators and congress people are truly villainous. get the law to president obama and let history record who happens. now, joining us, dana perino, where am i going wrong? >> i actually think the...