Great show today. Darren and I attended the 5th annual 10th amendment dinner last night and had a great time. I wore my Indochino suit and looked like a million bucks if I do say so myself.

Washinton is planning for large protests of up to 200k people who intend to object and/or disrupt the inauguration of Donald Trump. More than 7,500 national guardsmen have been called up to assist in the security of the event and based on what some protesters are saying it's probably a good thing they'll be there.

General Mattis was on Capitol Hill yesterday talking about talking about the threats from Russia and China. I know I may take some heat for my comments, but I found Mattis's opinion on both Russian aggression and the South China Sea Troubling. I'll discuss today.

Thanks to all of you who share and subscribe to the show. We've got big plans for 2017 and I'm glad you're a part of them.

Jason