u can get up to $1000 prepaid card with qualifying internet. yup, $1000. so switch to business internet from the company with the largest fastest reliable network. give your business a head start in 2024 with this great offer. plus, ask how to get up to $1000 prepaid card with qualifying internet. welcome to the republican rorschach primary. i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia. people are reading into the results so far whatever they're wishing for. first there are the never trumpers, the never trumpers. they say, he's essentially running as an incumbent and still 49% of the voters in iowa didn't want him and speaking of iowa, the turnout was abysmal. a little over 110,000 participated accounting for just under 15% of the state's 752,000

registered republicans. do you know that trump only received a little over 56,000 votes? and iowa, iowa is lily white. it's unrepresentative of the country at large. we're a diverse nation of over 335 million, a small number of iowa voters should not determine our destiny. and besides, the iowa field was still too crowded. when nikki haley finally got him one-on-one in new hampshire, she was able to keep it close and received about 43% of the vote. and worse for trump the independents in new hampshire supported haley in huge numbers showing that trump could never win a general election, so why should haley drop out? candidates only drop out when they run out of money and nikki has the money. she's raised 2.6 million since the new hampshire primary, and the super pac backing haley raised 50.1 million in the last signature months, that's about 5

million more than the pac backing trump. and don't forget. he's four times indicted, anything can happen. after all, just yesterday a federal jury in new york awarded e. jean carroll 83 million as a result of trump defaming her. and that was after a different jury in a related case found that he sexually assaulted her. do you really think suburban moms are ever going to vote for donald trump? it'll never happen. and then there's the maga perspective. and they say, it's amazing how many did vote in iowa. have you forgotten? it was record cold on january 15, minus 10 on election day, windchills as low as minus 40. they walked through snow to vote for donald trump, and they'd willingly walk through fire to elect him against joe biden. and don't forget. he had several opponents in iowa and he still received 51% of the vote. nikki haley, she was in third with just 19%. and then he beat her by 11 in

new hampshire even though she had the support of the governor and despite new hampshire allowing independents to vote, nikki haley is never going to find a friendlier electorate and still she lost by double digits. according to a cnn exit poll, 70% of haley voters in new hampshire, they were not even registered republicans. no wonder she raced out to give her speech when only the areas most favorable to her had been counted creating the illusion of her performing better than was actually the case. and, by the way, did you see exit surveys? do you know what issue mattered most to iowa and new hampshire republican voters? immigration. and you don't get more trumpy than that. step back and remember this, no one who has won iowa and new hampshire has lost a gop nomination. and trump's allies including house speaker mike johnson and the chair of the rnc ronna mcdaniel continue to call for the gop to unite around him. nevada is next but only trump

can win delegates based on the system about to unfold, so he wins nevada and then february 24 south carolina where he's hammering haley in her own state. he's got the support of every elected official who matters in the palmetto state. the latest fivethirtyeight polling average has him at 63%, haley only 29% and that verdict yesterday in manhattan, just another example of the deep state doing everything it can do to deny mac ga the chance to re-elect their man. one candidate has already won the nomination, anybody who doesn't see that has a view distorted by the fact that his name happens to be trump. there it is. those are the conflicting perspectives about the state of the gop nomination. haley's hopes seem pinned on the belief that trump will continue to face legal peril in the criminal courts akin to yesterday's civil defeat of trump and that she will be the last trump opponent standing.

how likely is her rope-a-dope strategy to succeed? i want to know what you think. go to my website, smerconish.com and answer the poll question, will e. jean carroll's defamation verdict against donald trump significantly improve nikki haley's nomination chances? j joining me now to discuss is elie honig. after yesterday's civil verdict, does donald trump have a jury problem? >> well, you bet he does, michael, if he behaves like that. i want people to understand what donald trump did in that courtroom throughout this trial is not just unusual, it is absolutely bizarre and self-destructive. when you're a trial lawyer you understand the jury is sitting there feet away watching and evaluating everything you do. you are trained that you have to have a poker face, even if your most important witness goes south or the judge makes a terrible ruling you have to act like you're doing just fine because the jury is watching you and for donald trump to sit

there muttering out loud in ways the jury can hear and the judge admonishing him. for him to stand up and walk out during a jury address by the other side is outrageous and i assure you the jury held that against him. if i was his lawyer i would say your penalty for acting out is financial but when we get into criminal court, the penalty will be much more severe. >> okay, so now the question becomes, does he get into criminal court before the election? let's remind everybody the court of appeals in d.c. any minute is going to come back on that immunity question relative to january 6th. then what? >> so, the key thing to look for, i'll save everyone some time when that immunity decision comes down, donald trump will lose this argument in the court of appeals and they'll reject it but pull up the document and hit control f and do the find function on the phrase issue the mandate. what that means is will they send the case back down to the trial court and essentially

unfreeze the trial court? now, the trial court has been what we called stayed meaning on pause for about seven weeks now. if the mandate issues it goes back to the trial court. they can try to re-establish a trial date, maybe in april or may, but if the court of appeals does not issue that mandate, the trial court remains frozen and donald trump will easily be able to run out the clock by asking for rehearing in the court of appeals then asking the u.s. supreme court to take the case, so that's going to be the make or break. >> speaking of the supreme court, let's remind everybody that february 8 comes the argument on colorado and by extension maine and other states as to whether he gets bounced from the ballot pursuant to section 3 of the 14'd amendment. how quickly will the supreme court rule in that case? >> i assure you they will rule by march 5th, before march 5th. the reason it is super tuesday and among the states voting, colorado and maine and about 14 others. i think the supreme court is going to rule by late february,

so people know, people have to know if they're going into colorado are we voting for a guy ho is disqualified and i think what the supreme court will do is rule in a way that not only rejects the disqualification in colorado but is broad enough that it ends all of these challenges under the 14th amendment across the whole country. >> okay, elie, so there's question about whether the january 6th case gets to trial before the election. there's question as to what happens relative to the 14th amendment. the mar-a-lago document judge doesn't seem to me to be moving expeditiously in that case, and fani willis now has problems in georgia. here's the question, is it possible that the only case that gets to trial before the election is the alvin bragg payoff to a porn star case and if so, does that necessarily hurt trump? >> so, it's possible and it's becoming even more likely every day that passes, michael, as it stands right now there are two cases on the calendar for march,

jack smith, the one we were just talking about scheduled for march 4th. that's not going to hold. that's going to get pushed back. the question is does it get pushed back far enough it leaves alvin bragg's case, the hush money case scheduled for the end of march, that may be the only case standing as we head into the spring and the question going back to your opening monologue, if nikki haley or anyone else is holding out hope that, well, maybe he'll get convicted, the earliest that can possibly happen realistically will be may and could be on the hush money case whatever anyone may think about it, the least serious so whether nikki haley or anyone else can hold out until may i'll leave to the political experts. that's the legal reality right now. >> we are trying to look around corners. elie, that was excellent. thank you, i appreciate it. >> thanks, michael. talk to you soon. what are your thoughts, hit me up on social media. i'll read some responses. from the world of x i'm supporting trump because he is being persecuted by the establishment. it's a matter of principle, more

important than any policy issue. well, thank you for your candor. i mean, we know that mindset exists and that's why, you know, to some as i say it's a rorschach primary. they say, my god, he just got stung with $83.3 million on top of $5 million because a jury believed that he sexually assaulted this woman. how in the world could he ever survive and succeed? and then there's a tentment like that where somebody says, yes, the fix is in against him, all these different prosecution, let me have my vote. i want to know what you think. go to my website, smerconish.com and answer the poll question, will e. jean carroll's defamation verdict against donald trump significantly improve nikki haley's nomination chances? still to come, a bipartisan border package seemed almost about to be hammered out in the senate until donald trump decided to weigh in. is he working toward a better deal? or just trying to throw a monkey wrench like nixon and reagan did in past elections?

i'll explain. plus, if biden and trump indeed are the nominees, 37% of americans say they'd be likely to seriously consider a third party candidate. one such candidate is here to discuss, robert f. kennedy jr. is next.

is the 2024 presidential race shaping up into a three-way contest? a new abc news ipsos poll found that if it's between president joe biden and former president donald trump, 37% of voters say they would seriously consider a third party candidate. that number peaks to 51% among independent women and moderate women alike. in a three-way matchup the latest reuters poll shows trump leading with 36% followed by biden at 30 and independent presidential candidate robert f. kennedy jr. at 8%. other polls have shown kennedy

higher. last fall in key battleground states he was getting a quarter of the vote in each of them. mark pence says one of the biggest threats to joe biden's re-election is a viable third party candidate. politico quoted doug sosnik's memo saying he can't win with the exception of winning georgia in 2016 with 50.77% of the vote, trump never reached 50% in any of the competitive states that determine the outcome of the last two presidential elections. so far robert f. kennedy jr. will officially appear on utah's presidential ballot. on tuesday his campaign announced they received enough signatures to also appear on new hampshire's ballot. if his campaign manages to get on all 50 states where is he likely to pick up some votes? joining me now is independent presidential candidate robert f. kennedy jr. robert, let's talk policy then we'll talk politics. i want to start with the border, because december we've just

learned set a record for border crossings. what will you do about that? >> i'll do -- you know, there's a bunch of things that need to be done to stop the flow at the border, which we need to do. we can't have 7 million immigrants coming in undocumented in a three-year period for long. number one, we need to restore -- we need to complete the infrastructure. we need physical barriers, particularly in the urban areas and you don't need a wall all the way from brownsville, texas, to san diego, but you do need physical barriers in the urban areas where migrants can disappear, illegal migrants can disappear in seconds literally, and the countryside on the rural areas in places like big bend national park, you need to have surveillance. you need to have long-range cameras which we had but the

biden administration took them down. you need sensors and lighting systems and we need good access roads and we need personnel who are empowered to actually stop the migration at the border on a regulatory and we need other -- we need to put asylum judges on the border to adjudicate the cases immediately. in addition to that, we need to revive the migrant protection act, which the biden administration disavowed, which allows border agents -- empowers them to keep asylum seekers in mexico while they await their asylum determination. we need -- >> robert -- >> yeah. >> my colleague manu raju covering capitol hill like no one else filed a report last night. i'll read something to you. here's the latest bipartisan proposal. they say that if migrant

crossings increase above 5,000 on average per day on any given week dhs would be required to close the border to migrants illegally crossing. it occurs to me that 5,000, that's 150,000 per month times 12, that's still 1.8 million per year. that's too high. do you agree with me? >> yeah, it's insane and we need in addition the shutting down the border which i will do as president. we need wide gates. we need -- the border -- the legal immigration policy was created in the 1960s and people have to wait years to get into this country legally. we need a quicker path to citizenship. we need to let seasonal migrants in to work. we need -- there are small business owners all over the country that are hungry for workers that are waiting for workers and can't get them and

we need to, you know, we need to -- we need the people to wait in line. we need to actually make it humane and quick for them, and we need to seal the border altogether. it is absurd to say that 5,000 people a week is acceptable. and there's ways to stop it. we stopped it in the past. >> let me talk about your campaign. the poll numbers, some of them more impressive than others, those competitive states where the times and sienna has you in the mid-20s from last fall, impressive, there it is. we're showing it on the screen, pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, nevada, arizona and georgia. but it only comes to fruition if you can get on those state ballots. are you going to get on those state ballots? >> yeah, we'll be on the ballot in every state. i mean, as you pointed out the beginning of the show we got on to new hampshire. people said it would take us weeks to get the signature and we needed 3,000 signatures in

new hampshire. we got 5,000 in a single day. so, we have a ground team at, you know, it all of the states where we can collect signatures. we're doing that now. there's about 27 states, michael, where you need a vice presidential candidate to start collecting signatures and but we have until august. we're not going to have a problem getting on the ballot. we will be on the ballot in these states and the district of columbia. >> let me ask you this, is it possible that you will seek as you are running as an independent, you will seek still to be the libertarian candidate which would assure you getting on all 50 state ballots? >> that's something we're looking at. we have a really good relationship with libertarian party. i'm going to be speaking at the california libertarian party convention. i think it's next week or maybe a couple of weeks and we're talking about me talking --

speaking in new york, but, you know, so -- then we have our own political party now in six s states, which have rules that make that -- give us an advantage to have our own political party. we're not -- >> i ask you the question, i ask you the question, i ask you the question because angela mccardell, the head of the libertarian party. do we have the sound on this? i want to play something for the audience, the head of the libertarian party on my radio show in the fall. roll it. >> we've had a lot of good conversations and we're on good terms, and i respect his decision to want to go independent the libertarians really admire the strong position he took against mandates and lockdowns and so we're going to stay on friendly territories and see what happens. >> bobby, make some news. it sounded to me like she's welcoming you to come in and ask for their ballot position.

>> yeah, well, we are talking to the libertarian party and i feel very comfortable with most of the values the libertarian party -- and, you know, we -- like i say, we have good relationships, i'm talking regularly to libertarian groups, so we'll continue to do those talks. i can't give you headline news story today, michael. i'm sorry. ask about something different. >> okay, well, i'm out of time but you'll come back and i'll ask again. robert f. kennedy jr., thank you. >> thanks for having me, michael. >> let's see what you're saying on social media. katherine, what do we have? from the world of x a third party is kind of like an opening, opening band before the headliner. they're nice and all but nobody really watches. i don't know, jimmy p., maybe the moon and stars have lined up this year. everybody seems to say when a pollster asks that they want more choice and not satisfied at the top of the ticket.

perhaps this is the year and of course we have our eye on no habls to see what they'll do. joe lieberman told me it will be on or about super tuesday they make a decision. go to my website. >> somara:.com and answer today's poll question, will e. jean carroll's verdict against trump improve nikki haley's follow nation chances? up ahead a bipartisan package in the senate on border security is now falling apart because of donald trump's influence. will this help or hurt trump's campaign? plus, i've discussed here how artificial intelligence can now generate freakishly realistic custom girlfriends. but what happens when the same technology is used to blur the truth in elections? before this week's new hampshire primary, thousands of residents received a robocall claiming to be president biden telling them not to vote. it was bogus. what does this portend for the 2024 contest? make sure you go to smerconish.com, sign up for my free daily newsletter for which

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♪ ♪ friday customs and border protection confirmed there were a record number of crossings at the border. the first time that number has ever been above 300,000. that brings last year's total to more than 2.4 million migrant encounters. that doesn't include the so-called got aways but is donald trump monkey wrenching any chance for a deal on the border? this week hopes for a long negotiated bipartisan border security package in the senate seemed imperil after trump came out against it each while its exact details were under wraps. in a closed door meeting mcconnell said they were in a

quandary about negotiated aid to ukraine and israel will proceed because trump's push to kill a deal created intraparty feuding. immigration has been one of his most potent campaign themes. friday, senate negotiators agreed to a new proposal that would empower the u.s. to restrict crossings. the senate deal expected to be unveiled as soon as next week and speed up the aside lull process to six months and require dhs to close the border if crossings increase above 5,000 on average per day on a given week. and any migrant attempting to cross the closed border twice would be banned from entering the u.s. for one year. trump doesn't want biden to have anything that looks like a win especially not on this of all issues before the general election. but recall that the democratic-led senate refused to pass the gop house border bill that's hr-2 and according to mike johnson, the new board irdeal is similarly lacking. in a letter on friday johnson

write, nine months have now passed since we sent our secure the border act, hr-2 to the senate because we've explained repeatedly that bill contains the core legislative reforms necessary to actually compel the biden administration to resolve the border catastrophe. the big's provisions include transformative corrections such as the remain in mexico policy, the end of catch and release, meaningful reforms to the ex-ing broken asylum and parole systems and continuation of a wall being constructed at the border. there were efforts made by previous presidents to affect the outcome of elections. you might remember nixon in '68 used the term when he told aides to thwart's lbj's peace talks to hurt humphrey and 1980 johny connally visited middle east states on behalf of reagan in an effort to get the word to iran not to release the 52 american hostages. is trump selfishly doing

likewise or is he trying to get a better border deal? joining me now to discuss is kari lake, republican candidate for senate in arizona. she was also the gop nominee in the state's 2022 gubernatorial election. she's a surrogate for the trump campaign. kari, thank you for being here. we asked the trump campaign to tell us on what basis does he, trump, oppose the border bill that's being negotiated in the senate instead of answering the question, they said, well, you should talk to kari lake so here you are. what's the answer? why does trump oppose this bipartisan bill? >> because it is terrible for the american people and president trump stands for the american people. he's all about making a deal but not a garbage deal and you're cherry-picking whatever you just showed there and you're forgetting the part that this bill does nothing to further build the wall and, by the way, the wall does work otherwise joe biden wouldn't have had it welded in the open position to

allow this invasion. it doesn't do anything to stop the fentanyl pouring across. this bill would actually legalize nearly 2 million of these illegal immigrants every single year. this bill does nothing to help the american people and it also, by the way, sends money to ukraine. the american people are sick and tired of it. they're absolutely sick and tired of it. >> if you were listening to my earlier -- kari, if you were listening to my earlier conversation with robert f. kennedy jr. you heard me say, do the simple math. 1.8 million still seems annually like too many. but i was raised to believe that half a loaf is better -- is better than none at all so if it would neighbor to shut down in overwhelmed, speed up the asylum process and raise the standard for claims why not take the win because if you don't it looks like trump is now acting like nixon or johny connally on reagan's behalf to just try to save the win for himself.

>> i assure you, if a deal came out of washington, d.c. that secured that border, stopped the biden invasion, stopped the fentanyl from pouring across that president trump would get behind that. this is not about politics. he cares about the american people, which is why he single-handedly secured that border when he was president and he had all kinds of political daggers coming at him. i live in arizona. you're sitting in manhattan. i'm here in arizona where we have it the worst right now. we have tens of thousands of people crossing a day. we have narcan in elementary schools because there's so much fentanyl pouring across our border that it's getting into the hands of our children and president trump cares about securing america, making our streets safe. he would support a deal that did that. but this deal is -- >> i wonder if he's -- i wonder if he's jeopardizing the strongest political hand that he has. here is what senator mitt romney

had to say. listen to this. >> we have a crisis at the border. the american people are suffering as a result and someone running for president ought to try to get, you know, the problem solved as opposed to saying, hey, save that problem, don't solve it. let me take credit for solving it later. >> isn't that the perception that will take hold? >> thank you for giving me a good laugh. i needed one to start the day. you'll take -- >> go ahead and respond substantively. >> i'll respond to that. mitt romney is not a good dealmaker. president trump knows a bad deal when he sees it. this is a bad deal for the american people. this does nothing to shore up our national security. we have millions of people, more than 12 million here illegally, countless that are here with nefarious reasons to hurt america. and this does nothing to root out those terrorists and stop them from coming in. 168 countries, that's how many

people are coming in from 168 countries around the globe and we're not vetting them. they're coming from countries with known ties to terrorism and it's a matter of time before the american people are hurt. i'm a mother. i'm tired of watching what's happening on the border and other americans feel the same way, michael. we can't continue along like this and president trump wants to see real security, not some horrible deal that ties us down to accepting millions of people who are here illegally to stay here. these people have come illegal. >> so let me say this, mitt is not alone on the politics of this. "the wall street journal" editorial page not exactly a progressive or liberal bastion. i'll read it to you as i put it on the screen, giving up on border security bill would be a, quote, listen to this now self-inflicted gop wound. president biden would claim with cause that republicans want border chaos as an election issue rather than solving the problem. there's more to it.

but you would say what to "the wall street journal," kari lake? >> i would say they're absolutely wrong. i mean, we've watched this border, i call it the biden invasion carry on for years now under joe biden. he came in on day one and peeled back an effective plan that president trump had in place. he and his corrupt government administration is aiding and abetting this invasion at our border. and we need to go down there, finish the wall, get national guard troops on the border and stop these people from pouring across. and then we need to sort out the 12 million people who are here and in order to save our homeland we need to send them back to their homeland and start repatriating them back to their homeland. we can't afford to take on all the world's problems. we have so many problems of our own here and forgetting about the american people. >> kari lake, thank you for being here. i appreciate your time. >> thank you, michael. i appreciate you having me on. checking in on social media reaction, katherine, what do we

have? from the world of youtube, abbott complains about border but trump wants to prevent biden doing something. i started the program today with a commentary about the rorschach nature of how the republican nomination is being perceived and this is similar insofar as on one hand you say as i said to kari lake, okay, maybe it's not perfect but you're getting more than you've ever had before so it looks like trump is selfishly holding out to have a win on his terms. on the other hand you could say as she just did and i'd rather hear from her than not hear from her. it's a weak bill and we could do better. we have a real problem on our southern border. we just set a record in december and not the kind of record that you want the nation to be setting. still to come, this week, dozens of deepfake images circulated on social media showing taylor swift in sexually provocative positions at a kansas city chiefs game. swift is said to be considering legal action but what happens when this kind of cutting-edge a.i. technology is implemented

in political contests? was this week's fake robocall from president biden to new hampshire voters just the tip of the iceberg for disinformation? please don't forget make sure you're voting on today's poll question. will e. jean carroll's defamation verdict against donald trump significantly improve nikki haley's nomination chances? when you go vote, sign up for my free and daily newsletter. you'll get my look at the news every day and look at that. come on, does that not sum up the week? that's two-time pulitzer prize winner steve breen writing for smerconish.com.

what do taylor swift and the 2024 election have in common? both are under attack thanks to how realistic artificial

intelligence and deepfakes have become. this week fake sexually provocative poses of swift likely generated by a.i. went viral on social media. one image was on x and viewed 47 million times before the account was suspended. in swift's case, the backlash has resulted in a movement called protect taylor swift. but how will we protect the electoral process? this week a fraudulent robocall pur purporting to be joe biden went out to 25,000 new hampshire voters asking them not to vote and save their vote for the election. >> republicans have been trying to push nonpartisan and democratic voters to participate in their primary. what a bunch of malarkey. >> pretty convincing, right? the source of the robocall campaign is unknown. it's under investigation. it's just the tip of the iceberg of how a.i. diggs information campaigns can disrupt elections. a chilling example of this happened last fall in slovakia

just days before the election deepfakes showed the progressive candidate plotting with a journalist. the progressive party was defeated. plus, there's a flip side of this danger as fakes proliferate, it becomes easier for those who are actually caught on audio or video to brush it off as manufactured. in fact, donald trump has done just that. he attacked this ad, the lincoln project ran on fox news called feeble that was made from authentic footage saying it was, quote, using a.i. artificial intelligence in their fake television commercials. and with massive layoffs at national and local media outlets across the country, think of the l.a. times this week it's going to be harder to combat misinformation. vivian schiller joins me, vice president and executive director of the aspen digital. her previous jobs, president and ceo of npr, global chair of news at twitter and general manager of newworktimes.com.

these seem like more serious concerns than even what the russians carried out in 2016. >> well, that's exactly right, first of all, thank you for having me. it's exactly right. there was back in 2016 when the internet research institute as it's so called the irs in russia was known to be carrying on a disinformation campaign to try to sow chaos and, you know, get people up in arms and persuade them on one issue or another, that was a big deal. all of those -- all of those capabilities are still there, but now with a.i. you don't have to be a deep pocketed organization like this state actor in russia. the tools that generative a.i. have now enabled put these capabilities in the hands of just about anyone to be able to put out misleading information that is targeted personalized and to do it at scale. >> how do we best combat it

especially i made passing reference to cutbacks at the "l.a. times" just as one example, but with fewer and fewer journalists, full-time journalist, investigative journalists who or how or where do we police it? >> yeah, well, there's a perfect storm of unfortunate events happening at the same time, which is news organizations are cutting back, second, news organizations are less trusted than at any time since polling on such things has begun, as you mentioned in our open, the social media platforms have cut back on their trust and safety and content moderation teams, and so it's open season for this kind of -- and the ability for all these, you know, whether it's somebody that's just a mischief maker or a super pac or foreign power to put this information out. so the critical thing that we need to do and come together on

as a country whether it's through media like we're doing right now or through official election offices around the country is to make sure that the public understands that these things are possible, but also where to turn to fact check information. this has to be sort of a whole of nation response, not in favor of one candidate or another, in favor of one issue or another, but just where to make sure the information that is coming at you is, in fact, accurate so you know where to vote, how to vote and democracy can carry on. >> a quick reaction from you. yes, we educate to let the public know that this is a possibility, but you're also giving cover then for someone who is subjected to very real coverage to say, oh, that was fake. >> yeah, well, this is a challenge and it's a needle that has to be threaded. the phenomenon you're talking

about has a name, the liar's dividend and the notion is when we in the media put, you know, say, look out, there's going to be all these deepfakes, that gives license to some who would like to mislead, you know, the liar in the case of the liar's dividend to say, don't believe anything you see, don't believe anything you hear, just listen to me and when, in fact, they get caught doing something that, in fact, they did, it's easy for them to dismiss it, just look back at 2016, one of the -- one of the number of october surprises in the 2016 elections was the grab them by -- i won't finish the sentence -- tape that came out of donald trump. imagine that today. how easy would it be for him to say, this is completely fabricated. >> i never said that. i never said it. it's fake. vivian, thank you so much for being here. i appreciate your time. >> sure. yep. happy to be here. >> still to come, more of your best and worst social media comments and the final result thus far of today's poll

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change, 76% say, it's really not going to help nikki haley. despite the size of that civil verdict in new york city yesterday against donald trump, social media reaction, what do we have, katherine, during the course of the program? a ton, i am told. what the actual "f," why don't you just have putin on, and complete your lineup of evil lying criminals? okay, jay, i'll do it your way and engage in censorship. thank me and say there's a third party candidate out there right now who's getting more of the vote than we've seen since ross perot in '92, thank you, michael, for putting him on. thank you for putting on the perspective, even though i don't agree with it. but for you, michael, we wouldn't hear that perspective, at least not here. you're welcome. another one, please, what else do we have? please bring up the fact that biden let the border problem go all the way up until the election, and now wants to claim fixing it. well, i think you just did a better job than i of saying that, proud papa, give me another social media reaction, what do we have? can we do the full hour one week

on this? you are scraping the bottom of the barrel with your guests, are kennedy and lake the best you can do, the middle pleaser show today is a train wreck, jerry, i've responded to that mind-set. to bring on diverse voices of newsmakers is what a program like this is all about. squeeze it, go, what do you have? not a peep on fox news about the $83.3 million carroll judgment, i clicked through the dial and i could not believe the five, last night, huge verdict comes in, they didn't even touch it. crazy. i'm going to bring you everything, even if you don't want to hear it. see 'ya. to duckduckgo on all your devie

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