why -- we're the best country in the world. we should be giving people basic keench. not backward, but forward. got to leave it there. thanks to both of you for coming on. i'm ana cabrera in new york. i'll see you for one hour from now. live in the "newsroom." "smerconish is now." ♪ i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia. we welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. campus tragedy, 18 penn state students indicted in a case of alleged fraternity hazing. eight of them have been charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of a pledge after a night of excessive drinking. much of the evening captured on

video and via social media. i'll talk exclusively to the lawyer for the young man's family. and another presidential election, another hack. cnn estimating 70,000 internal campaign documents of french favorite emmanuel macron published online. plus, you remember the progressive slogan, when they go low, we go high? well that crashed to earth this week when stephen colbert hit the president below the belt. the fcc is -- investigation. the has the left now joined the age of intolerance? plus the house gop pushes through its unpopular replacement for obamacare, but analysts say this could lead to big losses in the mid-term elections. was it worth the political cost. also the decision as to whether we get to see 3,600 secret files about the kennedy assassination, now rests with the conspirator in chief. i'll explain. 18 penn state's students were charged friday in connection with the hazing

death. eight fraternal brothers charged with involuntary manslaughter in what is sure to become the highest proposal hazing case ever. timothy piazza died two days after he was injured while pledging the beta theta pi fraternity. a forensic pathologist calculated that he had a life threatening blood alcohol content. surveillance video contradicted fraternity brothers' versions and pointed to their coverup and the fraternity has been banned forever from returning to penn state university where the university president released a statement calling the grand jury findings, quote, heart wrenching and incomprehensible. joining me to discuss is thomas kline, attorney for student timothy piazza. in the interest of full disclosure, i have no personal involvement or financial interest in this case.

tom, does the family want these young men punished? >> michael, these young men deserve to be punished. this was in a fraternity house but don't mistake it for the chilling, numbing facts that are in this investigative report by the grand jury. the family is interested mainly in promoting a future for fraternities and a safe and careful evaluation by everyone. >> this is no ordinary fraternity house. it had what the indictment said was a complex system for video surveillance and that's why there's such detail in the indictment. tom, i'm going to race through some of the paragraphs in the indictment. 173 explains that one of the brothers, greg rizzo, hears somebody fall and he sees timmy

lying on his stomach face down at the bottom of the steps. 174, they're now group texting one another. quote, tim might actually be a problem. he fell 15 feet down a flight of stairs, hair first, going to need help. 179, now the brothers are, quote unquote, backpacking him so he won't aspirate on his own vomit. 183, he now comes back into the camera frame because four of his brothers are carrying him. 184, his body appears limp. his eyes are closed. his demeanor is unconscious based on his lack of movement, and he's got a bruise. 188, one of the guys dumps liquid on his face. he doesn't respond. 189, another guy lifts up his arm and it drops, mean it's limp. it falls right to his chest. 190, somebody else pours liquid on his face. he doesn't respond. now, 197, presumably a good samaritan, cordell davis, he says that he appears in the great hall, sees him on the

couch. he looks terrible. he sees the bruise on his chest. when the brothers say that he fell down a flight of stairs, he's more concerned. he stresses to them that he needs to go to the hospital. he screams to get him help, and then one of the guys gets off the couch, shoves him and instructs him to leave because they've got it under control. 198, one of the brothers now says, hey, we've got this handled because we are majors in kin easiology and biology. and then 233, by forensic analysis the following morning of the phones, we see that there are searches being done. these guys are googling falling asleep after head injury, or true or false, a person with a serious head injury or concussion should be kept awake. finally, number 234, the following morning at about 11:00 a.m., finally a call gets made. they don't even tell the dispatcher that he fell downstairs and that it occurred the night before. here's my question for tom

kline. that video seems like both a blessing and a curse. a blessing as far as prosecutors know what they know in great detail, but a curse for your clients to know that it's all captured and it's all there to see. >> it is more a blessing, michael, than a curse. the fact of the matter is that the video was the great equalizer in this particular situation. that video is shocking. it is numbing, described by the president of the university as inhumane and sickening, not my words but the president of penn state. the thangs that were captured on that video should not take place anywhere. the forced drinking, this wasn't a young man who went and just consumed alcohol. he was in a forced hazing ritual. this fraternity and the culture on the penn state campus which allowed this to take place should not take place in any university on any campus anywhere in america.

>> hey tom, as a father of three sons, four kids but three of them being boys and one of whom just pledged a fraternity within the last 30 days, it's hard for me to read this indictment. i was the product of a good fraternity experience as an undergrad and frankly, i'm worried. i want them held accountable but i'm worried of the ramifications on fraternity life for this across the country. where's it going in the big picture? >> well, there's a concern, michael, that it would force fraternities underground. the fact of the matter is that all of these conduct was going on right underneath the penn state officials' nose. they knew about it. it is known on other campuses in america. this is widespread. it is a scourge. it needs to be stopped. and the mission of the piazza family is not just to punish

these young men, and they deserve to be punished, but rather to deter. we need to change the culture. we need to change the atmosphere. we need to change the rules of the game. if we're going to have our children, our young men and women in development actually have a real college experience, they should not be within the reaches of debauchery. this was depravity at its worst level. just because it happened in a fraternity house, just because it happened on a college campus, don't think to yourself, oh, it couldn't be that bad. read this report and you will be shocked. >> i have, and i was. tom kline, thank you. >> my pleasure, thank you, michael. >> what are your thoughts. tweet me, or as many are already doing, go to my facebook page. i'll read some throughout the course of the program. katherine, what do you got from facebook? this should be an indictment on this chapter of this fraternity, not the fraternity system or even other chapters of beta,

says seth. seth, he says i'm proud of my history and my campus and to our nation in general, finally seth says, just like a story about a school who pays its college players, we don't say let's shut down college football. seth, i just said exactly that. for three year i loved in a fraternity as an undergrad at lehigh university and i had a wonderful experience and i don't view this as an indictment of an entire system, but holy smokes, was this god-awful, according to the indictment. up ahead, the french election, the leading candidate has been hacked. right after former president obama made a campaign ad for him. are we reliving last fall? and is all this resistance to president trump on the left hurting the democrats and actually helping trump? my commentary is coming up. er o. philips sonicare removes significantly more plaque

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a last-minute hack of a presidential front-runner's private election materials, does this sound familiar? this time it's in france. just a day and a half before the election, leading candidate emmanuel macron's campaign said friday it had been the target of a massive computer hack that dumped its campaign e-mails online. cnn estimating that 70,000 documents were in the dump. it was not immediately clear who was responsible for the posting of the data, nor how much of it is genuine. this comes on the heels of former president barack obama releasing an ad supporting macron. the centrist candidate whose opponent is a far right leader, marine le pen, for whom president trump has expressed enthusiasm. take a listen. >> i want all of my friends to know how much i am rooting for your success. because of how important this election is, i also want you to know that i am supporting emmanuel macron to lead you forward.

viva la france. >> so are we seeing america's election being relived? joining me from cnn's paris bureau to discuss the implications here in the u.s. and abroad is cnn international correspondent jim bittermann. i find the timing curious because if someone really wanted to influence the outcome of the election, wouldn't you expect that the document dump would have come before, long before, the media blackout period? >> reporter: absolutely. there are a lot of parallels in these two elections, the united states and france, but that's one that doesn't hold. the fact is that unlike with the dnc and hillary clinton's e-mails that were dripped out over a long period of time, here the dump came just hours before the election reporting deadline. basically at midnight on the

friday before elections here, there's a cone of silence that's lowered over the campaigns and they can no longer say anything. this came just four hours before that, and the campaign of emmanuel macron was able to get out a last-minute communication basically saying they had been hacked, that there were millions of e-mails out there. and they also warned that there were false documents in the midst of other documents that were real from the campaign. we don't know what the content is, and none of the news outlets here are reporting this today. in fact, the news channels have not touched this story at all. michael? >> i was going to say, jim, it puts them in an awkward position, members of the media, right, because i'm sure they would love to tell the story, but they need to honor the protocol of the law which is to say this is a blackout period. >> absolutely a blackout period. tomorrow night at 8:00 when the results come in, and also i must say that with the volume of documents that had been released, it will take people some time to get through these documents. there's just an awful lot of material there. apparently one of the news

magazines here reported they had been through some of it and it was pretty mundane stuff. so it is kind of curious. what kind of damage it will have, probably minimal at this point because it's so late and the voters really don't have anything to base their vote on, at least as far as these e-mails are concerned. >> and jim, finally, macron is the prohibitive favorite but of course we learned from brexit, we learned from the election of donald trump particularly where there's a populist candidate involved, those polls aren't always accurate. >> reporter: well, there is at least one way that marine le pen could, in fact, sort of upset the polling here and that's if people don't turn up at the polls tomorrow, if they don't vote, if they abstain. but basically all the polls agree macron is the favorite going into tomorrow's election. >> jim bittermann, thank you. we appreciate your reporting. keep tweeting me @smerconish and commenting on my facebook

page. back to facebook we go. what do we have, katherine? do you think we should black out right before an election? laura, i don't think we would be able to sustain it. there's just something, i'm sure, about the french and the french society and their media that allows them to honor that agreement. i think it would be very, very difficult in the united states to get similar cooperation. it's an interesting concept though and i don't rule it out. ahead, is the left overplaying its hand in opposing president trump? whatever happened to when they go low, we go high? and the gop celebrated after the house squeaked through a new health care plan this week, but in doing so, have they just handed the democrats a huge gift for the mid-terms? it's an important question you ask, but one i think with a simple answer. we have this need to peek over our neighbor's fence. and once we do, we see wonder waiting.

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so, guess what wants their country back now? not the tea party activists who have made that a rallying cry since 2009. this time it's progressives with increasingly harsh rhetoric that sparks comparisons towards the vitriol directed towards president obama for his entire eight years. if it isn't toned down it could overshadow any message trump's opponents wish to convey. consider stephen colbert's monologue last monday, the comedian whose show initially struggled, has sharpened his attacks against the president. and he's been reported with increased ratings. monday he went too far with his trump/putin oral sex reference which crossed a line. take a listen. >> sir, you attract more skinheads than free rogaine. you have more people marching against you than cancer. you talk like a sign language gorilla who got hit in the head. in fact, the only thing your mouth is good for is being vladimir putin's [mute] holster.

>> that line might be suitable for, say, "real time with bill maher" but not the so-called tiffany network which used to be the programming gold standard. first, it was crass and in bad taste, quite a departure for the sunday school teaching colbert and a far cry from the democratic campaign mantra, when they go low, we go high. second, it's foolish politics. on president obama's watch, the right lost credibility with all but themselves, when they allowed their discomfort with president obama's background to devolve into charges of birtherism. or they cried socialism about obamacare. intolerance has a way of catching up with you politically and colbert is not the only recent example. student marauders stopped charles murray at middlebury. ann coulter had to cancel. at birk le, elevating the bombastic nuisance into a martyr. some wants "new york times" to fire bret stevens.

he there was a "times" column under the headline, "climate of complete certainty." stevens used the example of hillary clinton's failed campaign to show that such certainty can lead to hubris. while not denying climate change nor human role in it, he nevertheless set that while climate science is scrupulous, that's not always the case with its boosters. the column sparked a hue and cry, and some subscription cancellations. which i find ridiculous. or consider the democratic taunts of gop members who voted to repeal obamacare on thursday. ♪ na, na, hey, hey, good-bye >> my cnn colleague chris lizza was right to say that this kind of jeering and mocking is exactly why people hate politics. look, the left is understandably fired up, but there's only one beneficiary in a climate of liberal intolerance, and that's donald trump. he's helped when he is no longer the bad behaving outlier but the norm in a political atmosphere run amok.

not only will his base stick with him, 96% say they're ready to vote for him again, but such behavior will also alienate independents who might be swayed by the perception of a political pylon. the best way to fight him is on substance, not his own style. in the primary process, if it taught us anything, it's that you can't beat him by climbing into his sandbox. you can just ask marco rubio. so, what are the political ramifications of these bitter fights on the republican side after the house repeal of obamacare the independent nonpartisan cook political report changed its mid-term predictions in 20 congressional districts, swinging them democratic. in the piece david wasserman writes, quote, house republicans' willingness to spend political capital on a proposal that garnered the support of just 17% of the public in a march quinnipiac poll is consistent with past scenarios that generated a mid-term wave. the cook report's david

casserman joins me now. david, there are 23 republicans sitting in districts won by hillary, and 14 of them voted for this. they're the most vulnerable, right? >> that's correct. including seven in california alone. these are the types of districts that democrats need to win back if they have any chance of winning the house, and they're not sufficient on their own, they'll need to go into trump territory to actually flip control of the house. but if you have a democratic base that's really fired up and a republican base that is less fired up, the reverse of what we saw in 2010, then it could happen. >> you also noted in your piece that democrats run a risk. i thought this was fascinating. they run a risk in some parts of the country if they start calling it trump care because that could actually make it more popular. >> that's right. because some of the least popular provisions of the republican health care bill are less popular than trump. trump is at about 40% approval right now.

that's in the zone of where past presidents have lost their house majority in their first mid-term. but look, you can't blame republicans for spending their political capital. it's what democrats did in 2009 and '10. >> another interesting observation you make is that 20 republicans voted against this bill, and yet, they still might get blamed because that's exactly what happened with a significant number of house democrats relative to the affordable care act. explain. >> in 2010, there were a number of democrats who took a pass on voting for the aca, but it didn't guarantee them re-election, because out of the 30 who voted against obamacare and ran for re-election, 17 of them still lost. so the republican members like mike kaufman in colorado or barbara comstock in the northern virginia suburbs who essentially got a leadership pass to vote against this, or they had objections that were true to their conscience, we'll never know for sure. but they are at severe risk as a

result of the republican drive to advance an unpopular piece of legislation. >> we've already got our first campaign commercial. tom perriello, running for governor in virginia for a democratic primary, roll the film and we'll make an observation. >> republican leaders are trying to do this to affordable health care. in congress i voted for obamacare because it was wrong that 1 million virginians weren't covered, while insures companies hold all the power. now i'm running for governor because it's wrong that most virginia incomes haven't gone up in 20 years. together we can stop donald trump, raise wages and build an economy that works for everyone. and we'll make sure this never happens in virginia. hey, david, the question i have about the ad, was that a green screen, and if not, did he nail it in one take? and how many ambulances did they have lined up if he stumbled over his lines? but more seriously, is that a sign of what's to come?

>> yeah, i think you can expect that. look, that's not the kind of ad that you do in multiple takes, but i think you can expect democrats to be creative in firing up their base, and they don't really need to draw out everyone who voted for hillary clinton because mid-term turnout drops off so dramatically. we're going to get our first couple hints of how this is playing out in districts in georgia six, montana special election, and we'll even see the margin in the south carolina five special election. so there are some indicators here. of course, 18 months is an eternity in politics, but republicans are at risk right now in several dozen districts. >> david wasserman, as always, thanks so much for your analysis. >> thanks, michael. >> what are your thoughts? keep tweeting me @smerconish and hitting the facebook page. here's something that came in

via twitter. unfortunately trump's campaign antics made it easy for some on the left to take the bait and sink to the same level. bad for all. brian, that's part of my point, and i know there's going to be huge blowback from the commentary i just delivered. that's fine. but i'm also saying i don't think it's effective as a political strategy to fight him at his level. that's what i'm arguing. still to come, we still don't know what's in 3,600 classified documents about the kennedy assassination, but a 1992 law required they be released by this october. will it happen? well, get this. the power rests with a certain president who once accused ted cruz's father of being involved. and hillary clinton says fbi director james comey's letter to congress just before the election suggesting more trouble with her e-mail may have tipped the scale for her loss. i want to talk to harry enten from the 538.com blog who has analyzed the numbers and says she's probably right. rush limbaugh, he's not so sure.

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hillary clinton would probably be president today if fbi director james comey hadn't sent a letter to congress october 28 about, quote, the existence of e-mails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation into her private e-mail server. that's at least the most quantifiable factor, according to a piece on nate silver's

website, 538.com titled, the comey letter probably cost clinton the election, so why won't the media admit as much? in an interview with cnn's christiane amanpour this week, clinton herself gave some credence to this theory. >> as nate silver, who, you know, doesn't work for me, he's an independent analyst but one considered to be very reliable, has concluded if the election has been on october 27th, i'd be your president. >> comey himself when asked about the idea that he might have had this impact had this response. >> look, this was terrible. it makes me mildly nauseous to think that we might have had some impact on the election, but honestly, it wouldn't change the decision. >> joining me now, harry enten, the senior political writer and analyst of the 538 who did a

ten-part series. a week before the election, let me give him his props, he he was one of the few when he warned this, donald trump still has a chance. he's just a normal polling error behind. hey harry, i should point out that in nate's piece he says, look, this is not the only reason and it's not necessarily the most important factor but it's a significant issue nonetheless. explain. >> sure. i mean look, hillary clinton should never have been in a position to lose this election to donald trump who was the least liked presidential candidate of all time. anyone who wasn't the second least liked as hillary clinton was would have won this election regardless of the comey letter. that being said, when you have a five or six-point lead two weeks before the election and then magically it becomes two to four points right on the election eve, something happened and it lines up perfectly with when comey released his letter. in the days following we saw a tremendous dip in hillary clinton's polling results and it just -- i mean, it's simple logic. comey comes out, it was negative news for clinton and her poll

numbers dropped. i'm not quite sure what's so controversial about that. >> okay, so to the point that it can be quantified, let me put on the screen what you made reference to. the morning of the 28th she's up six nationally. she's up six to seven in michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania. her leads in florida and north carolina are more narrow. she was tied with trump in ohio and iowa. there were a lot of undecideds. one week later, and this is what this is showing -- her national lead declined to 2.9 points, meaning she had lost three points. i think what you're saying is the most likely explanation is this issue. >> exactly. look, hillary clinton's numbers were dropping a little bit before even comey came out. but the fact is that that decline increased dramatically after comey came out and we know from july when comey initially came out and said we're not going to indict hillary clinton, that was still bad news for her because he ripped her and her polling numbers dropped then.

the fact that her numbers dropped then and then in october again, seems consistent with the idea that james comey's letter, in fact, did contribute to hillary clinton's defeat in november. >> there are a lot of things going on in the waning days of the campaign, and put up the "new york times" as an illustration of the day after how this played. and then we have a montage that shows how other major media outlets played the release of the october 28 letter. a calculus of what were the dominant stories, harry, the so-called memoranda in those final days shows this was the issue, the biggest of the campaign ongoing stories. >> this was the big issue. the fact is the media played this up. if you were a swing voter in ohio or wisconsin or michigan, you couldn't turn on a television or read a newspaper without reading this. and so if you're a swing voter who's making up your mind at the last minute this is the last thing on your mind. and we know from the exit

polling, in fact, that people who made up their minds in the final days and weeks of the campaign chose donald trump dramatically as compared to earlier on when they were far more likely to choose hillary clinton. >> harry, when my father was a guidance counsellor, there was a sign in his office that said, kick the person responsible for your problems and you won't sit down for a week. to that end, if she hadn't gone the private server route, there would have been no letter from jim comey on october 28. >> 100% correct. hillary clinton is responsible for the fact she lost this election. she never should have been in the position that the letter would affect it. but that's not to say that james comey's letter didn't affect this election. if you look at the polling data, in my opinion and the opinion of a lot of people i respect, it did. >> ironically, the "new york times," i think, turned in a great piece of work. there was an 8,000-word story, four-person byline about ten days ago where they went inside justice and tried to explain comey's decisionmaking, and if you buy into their reporting, it

suggests that he thought she was going to win like much of the rest of the country, and he did not want the perception that they cut her some slack and then all of a sudden it would be revealed that there was this investigation. so he allowed his own prognostication to play a role in how much he was saying publicly. >> i think that's 100% correct and i think that's also the way the media played it. i think the media played it because they looked at the polls and thought, oh wow, there's no way donald trump can win, we don't want the incoming president to think that she can get a pass so they played up this issue while perhaps downplaying issues with regards to donald trump. so yeah, i think if they had thought that this election were tighter we might have in fact seen a different narrative from both james comey and the media. >> harry enten, thanks for your analysis. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. let's check in on facebook and twitter and facebook and see what's going on. i understand we have a huge twitter reaction. you need to stop your flip-flop. one week you're all in for trump, the next week you call him out. stephanie, i'm not a flip-flopper.

i'm consistent in my independence. i call them as i see them. if i think he's done something that'ser rant, wrong, bad, i say so. i said it during the year and a half during the course of the campaign. if i have a critique of the way the left is reacting to him as i did today like stephen colbert, i'm going to offer you that as well. week in and week out i seem to alienate just about everybody. do we have time for one more? hit me with another twitter if you've got it. smerconish, god bless comey. i'm not sure what to make of that, james owent, but i'll tell you this. i don't think he had his thumb on the scale trying to impact the election outcome. i do not believe that. i have done a great deal of reading on this subject and i think he was trying to act in a best way that preserved integrity for the fbi. those are my thoughts. up next, the intrigue about the kennedy assassination. man, it never goes away, right? 3600 files are still classified, but a 1992 law requires them to be released by october, and

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it's been 53-plus years if you're as curious as ever about the classified tales that have yet to become public. did lee harvey oswald act alone? oliver stone re-ignited the question. you remember this scene? >> there are hundreds of documents that could solve this. all these documents are yours and because you might mention those involved. you cannot see these documents for another 75 years. >> stone's film actually led to

the 1992 law that jfk assassination law. the 25th anniversary is this october 25th. now it's all up to our president. as phillip points out in his recent article "will trump release the missing jfk files." the president is the only one who can do it. will he let them see light of day? you'll recall drawn in the national inquirer, ted cruz's father being involved in the plot. the secret history of the kennedy as nation. we do underscore. if the president does nothing, then the documents get dropped, right? the only things he can do is

affirmatively stop them? >> that's right. it's all automatic. under the law on october 26th, the 25th anniversary of the law, everything has to be published. the national archives says they want to release them this summer in batches. >> i know from your reporting that they are thought to pertain to a trip that oswald made to mexico city shortly before the assassination. >> there's this mostly untold story which involves a mysterious trip oswald pays to mexico city where he's meeting with cuban spies and mexicans who are supporters of castro's revolution. we've never really understood, even people at the cia and fbi never really understood what happened down there. a lot of these files aperrinly are taken out of the personal documents of the cia officers

who followed oswald, who had surveillance of him in mexico city. >> am i right in saying that the reason they've not yet seen the light of day in part is because the fbi and cia did not want to harm relationships with mexico, they thought there could be some potentially embarrassing things there for the mexican government? >> exactly. you had literally millions of pages of documents released to the public. but there were these 3600 documents held back. apparently a lot of these involve what happened in next mexico and they were not released back in the 90s because of the concern that this would damage our relationship with mexico. president trump may have a different view of mexico than some of his predecessors in the white house. >> that would not seem to be a big consideration for the current commander in chief. what of this ted cruz-oswald

father business? is it likely that will get regurgitated? >> i'm sure some will regurgitate it and look for possible evidence that ted cruz's father was in cahoots with oswald back in 1963. there's one photograph that the national inquirer focused on and that president donald trump has a candidate focused on. >> and which we should underscore is denied by both ted cruz and his father. final observation. i'm sure whatever is contained in the 3600 pages and others is it will never satisfy the conspiracy they're lists who are out there. nothing will bring to a close some of the thought processes that they possess. >> that's right. i think there may be some documents that we'll see lashtd this year that may indeed rebut

in an important way some of the big popular conspiracy theories. >> fair to say, the white house hasn't said anything, right? we don't know what president trump is anything this regard? >> what we got last month was an acknowledge jmtd that the white house is reviewing this, that it's working with the national archives to have a smooth rollout of these documents but with we have no hint as to what president trump will do. >> phillip sheen an, thank you so much for the reporting. >> thank you. >> still to come, your best and worst with tweets. we've got more, i think, from facebook. let's see. he'll do what he thinks is the most controversial thing on the kennedy thing. he is an attention seeker. margie, i want to see all the documents. the iran any is delicious, right? there was concern that this could be harmful to our relationship with mexico, you'd

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. hey, thank you so much for watching and following me on twitter and hitting the facebook page. here's some of what you think. arrogant mean frat boys and mean politicians are all a product of our failing culture. without change, we are doomed. tom, i'll go this far. it's a shame how the acts of a handful of individuals, be they bad seeds in a fraternity who let a young man die allegedly, reportedly, and bad politicians that cause others not to want to pursue careers in public service. they both poison the well. hit me with another one. i'm agreeing with you. give necessity another.

do you think fraternities should continue to exist? that's a subject for a different day is whether we've driven drinking can't ground, whether in a crackdown on alcohol, i know this is going to be controversial but i'm going to say it anyway, whether in a crack down on alcohol on campuses across the country we have driven students into their dorm rooms, tie one on quickly and act yin appropriately. one more did i've got time for it. i think that i do. you're wrong about comey, just like you're wrong about the second president yool debate results. he helped elect trump. >> i -- terry, my point about him is i don't believe fbi director comey acted with an intention of putting his thumb on the scale and causing the election or defeat of donald

trump. i've invested the time going through this case and i think first and fore most -- he made mistakes but i think first and fore most he was worried about the reputation of the bureau. see you next week. >> you're live in the "cnn newsroom." i want to welcome our vours here in the united states and around the world. new tonight, cnn can confirm that the trump transition team warned former national security advisory michael flynn about his kooktsz with russia, telling him the calls were most certainly being monitored, according to a u.s. official. yet weeks later, he would call the ambassador kislyak, a call that forced flynn to resign after just 23 days on the job. the news comes