>> bret: finally tonight a special day. >> he shoots it and it's like self-rewarding and he gets excited when i get excited. i think we have a good connection and bond and feed off of each other. >> bret: a new top dog when it comes to dunking basketballs. that's a 5-year-old border collie named leonard. this week he set a new world record with 22 slam dunks in just one minute. his impressing feat fittingly happened outside the lazy dog restaurant and bar in chantilly, virginia. leonard is a very good artist making him well-rounded canine. thanks a lot for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced and still unafraid. i will see you in the new year. "the ingraham angle" is next. ♪ ♪ >> pete: i'm pete hegseth in for

laura ingraham. this is a special edition of the ingraham angle. vivek ramaswamy pulling back on television ad spending less than a month before the iowa caucuses. of course that has the liberal media jumping for joy, hoping that he is dropping out. well, tonight, vivek is here to respond. plus, what's going on with our country, especially with young people? a new poll reveals disturbing new trends. young americans supporting usama bin laden. we have the details. and alligator vs. python. we now finally have the answer on who would win the epic battle caught on tape. but, first, new year, new liberal laws. every year liberal state autocrats they squeeze the necks and twist the brains of their hardworking citizens just a little bit more. why? because to democrats, there's never been a problem that their god of government couldn't solve

by dumping more money and more legislation on top of it. all at the price of your inalienable rights. and, of course, the future for your kids and grabbed kids. fair trade, right? well, here's just a small sample. now, trust me. we could go on and on with the left wing lunacy of 2023. the not so golden state tops our list. in the new year, big california retailers will be required to have a clearly labeled gender neutral toy section. that's definitely what the kids have been clamoring for. california's ebony alert system, which is just for missing black kids, goes into effect. doesn't sound racist at all. also, their gas powered equipment ban goes into effect. certain chainsaws, hedge trimmers, hedgers and lawn

blowers and leaf blowers. pretty much everything you use, see you later. and a new report says pizza hut franchises are already firing their delivery drivers before the state's new $20 fast food minimum wage kicks in. seems like a nice start in the new year for california's low income workers. the north star state coming in at a close second place. minnesota now requiring menstrual product which includes pads and tampons be available in girls and boys bathrooms for students grades fourth grade to senior year. this from a state where illegal immigrants, including those who have recently crossed the border have already started applying for driver's license. licenses for everybody. the state where felons can vote in 2024. >> and minnesota is already a sanctuary state for child sex

change. come to think of it, that should just become their new tourism ad. oregon feeling left out introduced nearly 3,000 pieces of legislation last year and its governor signed over 600 of them. one of them lets mostly anyone turn their apartment into a child care facility. so pretty much any apartment could be overrun with children during the day, including your next door neighbor, all in the name of equity, of course. and finally, the blue state of new york. governor hochul just signed legislation creating a committee to consider reparations for slavery. yes, it's coming. following the lead of california, of course. joining us now is monica crowley. she is former trump treasury assistant secretary and host of the monica crowley podcast. merry christmas, monica. thanks for being here. gender neutral children's toys, tampons in boy's bathrooms. are voters asking for any of these things?

>> well, merry christmas to you, pete. it's great to be here. thank you. no. voters are not clamoring for these things. you know, in our system of federalism, states have a lot of latitude and red states really work hard to make sure that their residents have expanded freedom whereas in blue states those legislatures and those governors work for anti-freedom legislation like you just laid out. i mean, that blue state list is an absolute clown show of anti-freedom laws and mandates. and, yet, you know, people aren't asking for this. but, any time you have a blue state. any time you have these kinds of democrat leaders, they will use any excuse whatsoever to clamp down on your daily life and your freedoms. and this is why, pete, you are seeing tremendous outmigration, population loss from these blue states like california, new

york, illinois, because people have just had it. they have had it with this kind of encroachment on their personal freedoms, of course. they have also had it with the fact that in these blue states, as a result of skyrocketing cost of living, astronomical taxes, suffocating regulations, all of this combined, you have got like on top of just a crisis of living in these states and these communities with out-of-control crime and a collapse of law and order, you also have a collapse of social cohesion in these states. and all of this leads to economic anxiety, at least to personal anxiety, and that's why you have masses of people, tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands leaving these states going to more free red states like texas and florida and tennessee. >> pete: monica, you are exactly right about that. we have noted that recently as well. but what's with the focus on the

hyper sexualization of kids? i mean, tampons for boys in boy's bathrooms in fourth grade. sanctuary states for sex changes for minors. these are not kids who are voting. they are future voters but they are hyper focused on our youngest. why is that? >> yeah. that's really waking a lot of people up across the country, including in blue states, pete. because, you know, it's one thick for these kinds of marxists to engage in this kind of cultural marxism when they are targets the overall culture or adults. when they come after children, that wakes up a lot of parents and others really concerned about the future of this country and these kids. it is cultural marxism. it is a way of confusing children and breaking up the nuclear family or at the very least weakening the nuclear family and that is the ultimate goal. look, these leftists, pete, really want a standing army,

generation after generation of standing army of these little indoctrinated marxists going forward. and what better way to get to them early than to confuse them on the most basic aspect of their own humanity, which is their gender. and then once they are confused, they drive a wedge between them and their parents, them and their faith, them and their community, and guess who is ready there with open arms to step in and embrace them? it is the left, whether it's the left in government, the left in school, or the left in the culture. and those forces end up replacing the family. and we have seen this throughout history in every kind of communist regime. this is cultural marxism, pete. it needs to be fought at every turn. >> pete: and it never ends well. amen and amen. so well said. monica, thank you for your time. all right. well, democrats spent 2023 creating new worthless but dangerous laws that we just

outlined. they didn't enforce the common sense laws that are already on the books. we have all seen the rampant unpolice looting over this past year. well, over the weekend, ther theirvine police department thre male suspects brazenly looting about $16,000 worth of merchandise from a sun glass hut. they didn't even bother to cover their faces. why should they? no consequences. the crime spree this month has been particularly shocking. just before the christmas holiday. thieves in washington, d.c. stole $250,000 worth of merchandise from a chanel store during a smash and grab in which one of the thieves discharged a fire extinguisher. why not? and in memphis, looters rammed a white nissan through the entrance of a boost mobile store. this after the suspects committed another smash and grab, the same location, the same morning, excuse me, at an tat location. they couldn't decide which

self-to hit. major u.s. chains were crushed under the onslaught. rite aid filing to close 1504 stores. cvs is closing 300 stores annually until 2026. and foot locker, the guy in the -- the guys with the refs uniforms they will close as many as 420 stores. joining me now is chris befferd. the executive editor of the common sense society. chris, what is worse? crazy new laws coming up in the new year you probably heard us talk about that or is it the fact that the laws on the books aren't enforced and therefore you get mayhem? >> i think it's definitely the latter, the former are troublesome. the former are just decadent. the kind of things that left wing politicians pursued. but the latter are destroying lives. they are destroying cities. i lived in washington, d.c. for 18 years. i had to leave the house that i owned with my family because it was becoming so incredibly

unsafe. a neighborhood that had once been home to vibe communities going to local restaurants and bars. a lot of the people ended up having to flee the city because of crime. this is all done, supposedly in the name of equity. they are no longer going to enforce laws against violent crimes. they are treating 17-year-olds like 9-year-olds. it doesn't actually achieve any of that while my neighborhood was hit pretty hard and the crime went bad. the poorer neighborhoods, places that they were trying to help were actually being disseminated. people losing their actual children, 7 and 8-year-olds to random stray bullets there are parents who are celebrating this christmas, trying to celebrate this christmas talking about the violent carjacking that their family sustained or the son or the daughter who was not at the table that year. and the whole point is to let these criminals run loose to try and save their lives but it's actually destroying the lives of citizens. this is not something that is happening because of some outside economic force. this is suicide by these city

councils. >> pete: it really is it's exactly right. it's intentional. they have know what the outcome is going to look like. they are counting on voters not holding them accountable because of the nature of the cities. chris, thank you so much. ♪ >> how dare this mayor and city council have the guts to give migrants $51 million. they should not be impoverished and marginalized black and brown communities where we have food shortages and homelessness. >> we have not gotten anything for our community. >> pete: those were outraged chicago residents earlier this month demanding their city leaders who were supposed to represent them prioritize their citizens over illegal immigrants. it seems like this one raised a question do we, all of us, focus too much on national politics?

you know, parents rallied against school boards and made some progress in taking back corners of our education system from the left. at least in their local communities. so is it time to also take on city councils? because, clearly, they are not listening to the will of law abiding people. let's go back to chicago. their city council voted against the voters nest year on the ballot if they believe the city should maintain statutory status as a sanctuary city? can't let the voter decide what they would want. boston city council approved a measure that would let non-citizen immigrants vote in boston elections. they claim it's only for those with legal status. but considering how often democrats don't enforce immigration laws of course you are going to get illegals voting. they say the people crossing our border right now have legal status because of so-called amnesty claims. and it's not just issues of immigration.

in pleasantton, california, sounds like a nice town, their council is supporting a ban on gas powered leaf blowers. big problem. and in new york city the council is approving pro-crime acts like banning solitary confinement punishing those who don'ted me the new arbitrary noise standard. if your ride makes a sound over 85 decibels, whatever level that is cameras will capture your license plate and send you a ticket. joining me now is lee zeldin. he is the former new york congressman and gubernatorial candidate. lee, do you agree if people want to make an impact on their communities yes, the national stuff is important, but the local route is the way to go? >> yeah, 100 percent. these local levels, you are watching the petri dish of far left lunacy what might be happening inside of a city council would be coming to state capital near you, soon.

new york city, for example, they passed a ban on the safe -- on the hookup with for gas and to new construction so the state capital then passes a ban statewide on hooking up new construction to gas. what you see leading our nation down in washington, our politicians who come from these cities. you know, nancy pelosi comes from san francisco. new york, chuck schumer is from new york city. aoc is from new york city. hakeem jeffriess is from new york city. thieves local races the turnout is abysmal. and, actually, when you show up, you find out that a lot of these long time democratic voters are disenfranchised democratic voters who feel like democratic policies have been harming them so they're actually looking for these conservative solutions. they are willing to vote differently but you have to show up and earn their support and last thing i will tell you is that a lot of these democratic voters registered democrat because they want their vote to matter. they feel like the only way for their vote to make a difference is in the democratic primary to vote for the most normal person

on the ballot. a lot of these registered democrats are actually conservative democrats are really republicans who registered democrat. the votes are there. we are not talking to them on the right. >> pete: let's stick with new york city. the mayor, eric adams disagrees with you. he says he is doing a great job. watch. >> two years ago, this city was in a free fall. we got stuff done in 2022, 2023. what we are really happy about is how we are continuing to invest in people, public safety, and public spaces. reshaping our streets. making it easier for new yorkers to use. >> pete: he is happy about the condition of new york city, lee. are there enough of these, you know, more conservative democrats registered to eventually throw out bumps like this that aren't fixes cities? >> you know, what is wild about your question is that adams' biggest threat is to his left.

it's not even to his right. there are a lot of people in new york city who feel like he isn't far left enough, which is wild. no this is not the right directions of the city. eric adams will admit blaming somebody else, like big bad maga republicans caused the migrant crisis while is he call on president biden to do something about our border. he won't actually put the blame on the feet of the president, who is in a position to do something. he will say it will destroy new york city. every once in a while you get this nugget of honesty that might come out of these blue city mayors and blue state governors and in the case of eric adams, what is wild is that the biggest vulnerability that he faces electorally right now is actually on his left. they think that he isn't socialist and far left wacky enough. >> pete: yeah. do you see that in big cities, minneapolis same thing. anybody that shows a semblance of sanity gets primaried and

then the city council gets even crazier and cities get what they deserve. lee, thank you very much. all right. liberal back flips today over the idea of vivek ramaswamy dropping out. this after a pullback in tv ad spending. vivek, here to respond. but, first, it's a politicized persecution but jack smith doesn't want you to call it that. special counsel just filing another motion trying to limit trump's ability to defend himself. former trump attorney jim trusty reacts to the chilling details, next. ♪

>> pete: biden's doj is now trying to police disinformation. of course they are. justice department special counsel jack smith's office writing in a court filing today that trump's lawyers should be prevented from, quote: raising irrelevant political issues or arguments in front of the jury. including that the persecution is vindictive and selective or was coordinated by joe biden. this comes as michigan supreme court rejected an effort to remove trump from the ballot today. here to break it all down is former trump attorney and former federal prosecutor jim trusty.

jim, you know, concerning jack smith, we know it's political persecution. but he doesn't want donald trump or his lawyers to say that in court? is that what is at issue here? >> yeah. it's pretty rich. jack smith s. announcing set guardian against politicizing the criminal justice system and he threw out probably seven or eight different areas that he wants to prevent through the trial judge even being mentioned in front of the jury. and i will say, for some of it, it's kind of borderline absurd. like the idea you can't challenge the bias of witnesses testifying against you would be a real change in bedrock law. and he has this idea that the president shouldn't even be allowed to bring out that he tried to get the national guard out there to the capitol on january 6th. which is obviously a relevant piece of litigation. a relevant fact for this trial. he gives this ridiculous statement that it's like the bank robber trying to blame the security guard for the robbery,

which is probably the faultiest analogy in all of the pleadings we have seen from special counsel. the reality is it's more like somebody calls the bank and says hey, you might get robbed, we can give you more security and bank manager pelosi and assistant manager bowser say no thanks, no need. we're fine. so everything about this motion is premature. a little bit absurd it. might land with a sympathetic audience with a d.c. judge and d.c. jury. >> pete: that's the point. d.c. judge, d.c. jury. why not throw everything at the wall if they can and they are certainly trying at this point. by the way, jim, here was the reaction today concerning the michigan decision. you know, should trump, the leading candidate actually be on the ballot. watch this. >> at a later stage the people who are challenging trump in michigan will very likely go back to the courts and try again. there may need to be revisitation of this if, in fact, he wins the nomination for the republican party in the general election. >> there is still the possibility that there could be

challenges that could be successful down the road in michigan. >> pete: jim, they are not giving up hope. they are hoping that somehow this will go the other way and trump won't be on the ballot in niche began and elsewhere in their dream. >> look, every state different procedures. the michigan court did leave open the possibility of revisiting. this is the problem with lawfare. what we are looking at is a group of democrats around the country, sometimes exdoj officials this is all they do is pursue opportunities to sue the president, to find ways to criminalize noncriminal conduct or to find ways to keep them off a ballot. it is manipulating the criminal and civil justice system beyond recognition. it's crossing the ryu buy con. but they do it happily. they think the ends justify the means. they will keep filing cases. we are usersed, frankly, to hoping that justice roberts gets over his natural reluctance to wading into these issues and puts an end to all of this lawfare by way of ballot

elimination. >> pete: it is lawfare. we have jumped the ruby con. jumped the shark. and in unchartered waters there are other places, jim, where this has happened. take bolivia, for example, bolivia's tyrannical regime has held a leading opposition figure prisoner for a year now. what was his crime? having led the nationwide nonviolent demonstration that ended in the resignation of the movement towards socialism, authoritarian will evil evo morales in 2019. bolivia doing the same. isn't this what tyrannical regimes do and how far could this go? people in this country so obsessed with president trump and so dislike him that he don't mind changing all of the rules of criminal and civil process. and we're going to be left with a system that may not quite catch up to bolivia or russia in

the next few days or months or weeks but the bottom line is a bad one. we should recognize rule of law. we should recognize the strength of a constitutional republic that doesn't have to have lawsuits determine elections or election eligibility. and i think a lot of this country is going to realize way too late they have fundamentally transformed justice in a bad way. >> pete: realizing way too late is a very dangerous proposition for my kids and yours, for the future of our country and they are setting those dangerous precedents right now in real time in 2024 will be -- will define the stakes of what hour justice system looks like. jim, thank you very much for breaking it down. all right, now it's time for our political palate cleanser. watch. ♪ ♪ ahhh. [wind blowing]

now we know in a matchup between an alligator and a mask burr these python who won in the alligator won. can you see ten joying its spoils right here. i guess it's like -- got to be like spaghetti aura men for them easy. of course, where did this happen in the wonderful state of florida. coming up, growing support for usama bin laden with young measures. yes, you heard that right. what's going on? we have got the details. plus, a drop in tv ad spending mean vivek is dropping out? he is here to respond, next. ♪

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assumes to be fading. >> we know in businesses and politics when things get tight say goodbye to the advertising. >> people tell you that it just hasn't been effective so he is taking everything off the airwaves but something more to it. >> vivek ramaswamy has lost all momentum. >> the best thing about january may be the last month we actually have to deal with vivek ramaswamy. >> pete: the left wing media hyperventilating, frothing at the idea of vivek's demise. the man igniting all this wild speculation joins us now from the campaign trail in iowa. vivek ramaswamy. so let's get this cleared up right out the gate, vivek. does the liberal media have a reason to be this excited? >> no, they don't. sorry to disappoint them. actually i'm not sorry to disappoint them. i'm thrilled to disappoint them. we're going to this to the very end i suspect we will be successful. pete unlike other candidates i have been a businessman. i have run businesses before. i understand when something actually makes sense and when it doesn't. so when advertising rates are

spiking for everybody else, you got $200 million close to that been spent by the campaigns and their super back fund tv ads. that's not the place to spend it. instead we are going grassroots bottom up. i have have done the full grassley. more stops in iowa than many of the other candidates combined. we are doubling and tripling down on spending in much more targeted way that's going to deliver. you mark my words on this. a surprise at the iowa caucus on january 15th i think we are going to shock the world. i'm running this campaign in the same way that i would run a company with an actual iq and actual brain not taken for a ride by political consultants i think that's going to lead us to ultimate success here. >> pete: vivek, can you hang a number on what shock the world means? i have heard you say that before. iowa going to be a big surprise in your mind. what does that mean? >> i love where we are sitting right now, pete, where the mainstream media has got expectations low hanging me in

fourth place. i think if you take where the mainstream media's polling media is having me in the high single digits in iowa. we are going to shatter that i'm going to leave the rest to january 15th. i this i we have a good shot at winning the iowa caucus. if you look at the poll numbers right now, i know that would tell a different story. it's because many of our supporters in this campaign, they are not polled. these are younger people. people have not traditionally participated in the caucus but who are inspired by a leader from a different generation. from the next generation. withen a actual vision of what it means to be an american. not just criticizing biden. that's would. that's tired. that's yesterday. but to stand for actually our own alternative vision. that's something that's bringing new people into this movement. a good clue on that, pete is this. 40% of our donors are first time ever donors to the g.o.p. that number is 2% for other republican candidates. so that gives you a sense for how different this campaign is that what we're going to need to

win the general election in a landslide which i'm confident i will deliver. and that's going to start with a major surprise in iowa on january 15th. and i think being a businessman coming in from the outside from this world of politics has helped me call the bluff on a little bit of what these standard political consultants do. it's like an assembly line. they put candidates on. i'm not going to be on somebody else's assembly line. we are making independent decisions. i think we are going to get the dues paying off for that on january 15th. poet pete but the big one looming in the back ground which everyone knows is the overwhelming frontrunner of donald trump who remains polling ahead in iowa. vivek, earlier today we saw michigan reject an attempt to remove trump from the ballot there now, have you made some waves recently when you announced plans to remove yourself from colorado's ballot following that ruling. and you urged your fellow g.o.p. competitors to do the same. but, it appears they are not game for that governor desantis said it was, quote: just playing into the left's hands and refuse to join you whether a do you make of the governor's

point? you repeatedly stood behind the targeting of trump ballot trump is disqualified from should this trend kin? >> i think this is blatant election interference g.o.p. primary by the left. one way republicans can protect ourselves, and that's why very led the way in doing, it is by saying that any state that removes donald trump from the ballot none of us should be on the ballot that then takes states like colorado out of the g.o.p. primary, which actually stopped them from engaging in this kind of election interference. so, pete, i'm a problem solver. if will is a problem presented to us, i believe in solving the problem. i also believe in being a leader and not letting others lead the way if i'm going to be a follower. i'm sad to see that desantis and haley and chris christie haven't followed that they are focused on collecting some microscopic number of delegates instead of standing for the actual integrity did i of our election. my job is not to manage them. i'm going to lead this country with the same intelling at this

i'm leading this campaign. we need to be guided by principle and not short-term interest. in the long run i think that is actually going to be the winning strategy. next year there is going to be a lot of unexpected things that play out in 2024. if you follow where this road ends, my concern is they are not going to let certain candidates like donald trump get to the finish line and i think it's really important that we play ahead of the curve to understand the not fall into the traps that the other side is laying for us. so i'm going to do my part to stand for the integrity of this g.o.p. primary: we need an american first candidate. i believe i'm that candidate. going to take somebody from the next generation to do this with fresh legs and i'm ready to lead the way. >> pete: raising expectations in iowa and disappointed all of the left wing media, especially kristen welker tonight. vivek, thank you. appreciate it. all right, is taylor swift turning into a bad luck charm for the ka kansas city chiefs?

and a model in brazil arrested for walking her dog topless. we have the details in our wednesday roundup. but, first, did the cia white wash their own covid origins investigation to cover for communist china? the man bringing the lawsuit joins us next. ♪

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>> pete: welcome back. the cia in hot water as we head into 2024. a sweeping lawsuit demanding detailed information on a shadowy group inside langley, the cia headquarters known as the covid-19 discovery team. now, this comes after a whistleblower allegation alleging that the cia provided financial rewards to six cia agents on that team to change their position and come out against the possibility of the virus originating in a lab in wuhan, china. leading the charge against the cia is mike howell, heritage foundation oversight project director. mike, what can you tell us? what kind of proof is there and what does it mean? >> so, in september, highly credible cia whistleblower came to the house of representatives and said that covid origins team of the seven officials on it,

six thought it was a lab leak. one thought it maybe could have been some zoo on nic animal-to-animal transfer. the cia famously came out with their determination that said they didn't have any certainty one way or the other, thereby overruling the consensus of their own experts and the whistleblower further alleges that there was financial rewards given to those six in order to change their tune. it's a massive cover-up. one that is one of the biggest stories about intelligence community politicization in recent memory and we are seeing the cia. stiff armed congress and refusing to turn over these records. now they are taking it up with us. we got them in federal court. we are going to force the disclosure of this information there is no reason why this information does not belong to the american people and so we're in court taking up this fight this is one of the biggest lies that has ever been told.

>> pete: good for you. it's a huge story. if the top intelligence agency is paying agents to have a different outcome because it benefits someone else, we need to know about it. i'm also, mike, curious what does fauci know about all of this. it was reported in september that he secretly went to cia headquarters to influence the agency's probe on covid origins, according to house republicans, so, that could tell us how far reaching this lawsuit could possibly be. >> absolutely. so, in that reporting, fauci went over to cia headquarters and wasn't logged into the usual visitor, you know, symptoms. they were clearly trying to hide what he was doing there to me it absolutely wreaks of fauci weighing in to politicize this process. keep in mind what was happening that period of time. you had everybody in the elites and media and the deep state trying to give china the benefit of the doubt even though they had clearly lied there was massive geopolitical

implications according to the lab leak theory. why they called me and you and others conspiracy theorists. now everyone accepts it definitely was a lab leak. fauci was making sure that he was playing politics at this point in time. it was about the election going into 2020. and giving china, you know, the benefit of the doubt they do not deserve. we need massive, massive accountability for the chaos that china released on the world with this dirty, dirty virus. >> pete: absolutely right. the cia denies what the rest of us figured out in 10 minutes that when a covid virus originates from a town where there is a top level covid lab, you might want to look there, first. mike, thank you for staying on this. we deserve accountability. appreciate your time. all right. coming up, why are young americans loving osama and what we find out when we find out what happens when robots attack? jason chaffetz and sean duffy join me for the wednesday roundup. coming up next. ♪

>> it's time for wednesday round up, and for that we turn to our friends jason chaffetz and john duffy. the daily mail released the results of their poll researching the popularity of usama bin laden among americans, and the results were, shall we say, alarming, specifically when it comes to one demographic, young americans. when asked about their views of bin laden, 20% of 18 to 29-year-olds said they h had a positive view of him. and when asked about the views of the 9/11 mastermind, 3 out oe sympathetic to his opinions. jason, let's start with you. shouldn't just be 100% against? >> yeah, i want these punks to go meet with the families. go meet with the brothers and sisters, the daughters, the sons affected by the 3,000 people. have them go talk to people like pete hegseth who gave up years of their life to go fight for this country and make sure we are safe in the future.

they haven't had those experiences yet, and it's a shame. we are failing our youth if they don't understand this as a fundamental simple truth that he's one of the most evil people to ever walk on the planet. >> sean, terrorist pulling at 30%? >> it's not shocking. you talk about this a lot. we send our kids to little commie camps, schools, where they teach you to blame america but not love america. this is in line with what kids have been taught the last 12-14 years of their schooling. of course they're going to hit us. that viewpoint is not going to change until you change the school system in america and get the comment is an out and bring in american-loving thoughts again. >> bin laden was good at articulating anti-american rhetoric, so if that's what you are being taught, that's good. let's turn to the nfl.

there catching some heat for suggesting that taylor swift has become a distraction for kelce and the chiefs. posting on twitter, "the chiefs are not a good football team and travis kelce looks like he should retire. he's been with us the last 7-8 weeks. the double worthless pfizer shots might have caught up with him. maybe she's there yoko ono." "it's about time to call taylor swift a distraction." what do you think, and how about you, travis kelce? what do you think? i know rachel has a view on this. what is your view? distraction or are the chiefs just getting worse? >> they're getting worse, but when you're more focused on taylor swift and what she's saying and doing in the stands instead of pulling football, it's a distraction. forget about taylor swift, focus on your game. i think we would be well served

if they sent her packing, sent her home, don't send her to the games. let's play football. >> i don't know, jason. he played college football. a lot of people don't know that. is she the yoko ono? have you ever encountered this effect? >> the yoko swifto, as they're calling her. when you are in the nfl and your team is losing and you go to another country to go out or in concert, and you lose the game, people have got a case to be made. if you would not, don't have a problem. if you are losing, don't get on a plane and fly to brazil to see your girlfriend. >> winning fixes everything. you are right. but when you lose, people ask questions. you invoke the name of brazil, which moves us to our next story in south america. a brazilian model was arrested in her home country for walking her dog's topless. caroline woerner is a businesswoman who also has her own bikini line. she apparently forgot it. she says she has traveled all

over the world and has never had any issues being topless, but was appalled that she was detained, saying in many countries it's a completely normal practice and that a woman's body is not objectified or hyper sexualized. she could face anywhere from three months to a year if found guilty. you've been known to walk around topless at times. should women not have the same right to? >> i can get -- nothing good can come from the answer i'm about to give. i will say this, you don't even have to investigate the facts, and i'm so glad. i talked off air with john duffy and he's agreed to talk to the perpetrators, talk to the victims of this crime, and get to the bottom. i will not come to a conclusion until he's finished his investigation. >> she's innocent until proven guilty. there's a time and a place for everything, and topless in your bathroom, that works. maybe topless on the beach, that works, too. but walking down the street topless, i'm sorry, there's

kids, potentially families, and certain decorum by which we live. i don't mean to be a prude come of it if you're walking with your boys, the boys might like it, but if you're a dad, listen -- we went out for ice cream and you got more than ice cream walking down the street. don't do it. >> innocent until proven guilty. real quick, one sentence. i need new year's resolutions. jason first, then sean. go. >> be a nicer person. >> i'm going with the classic. i'm going to channel jason myself and try to lose some weight. i put on a few pounds over the last several months. we will both lose some weight. work out a little more. we want to look like pete hegseth next year. >> oh, come on. you are both wonderful people who don't need to lose any weight. that's it for us tonight. i'm pete hegseth intro laura ingraham. guess who's next? rachel campos-duffy hosting "jesse." watch. ♪