but i'll be back next week as well. thanks for joining us. have a merry christmas everyone, good night from new york. kennedy: hello my curious lovelies. we are going to look back at some of the show's highlights the last few months and some of the world class guests who have joined me since the shooting in san bernardino. montel williams joins me. you won't want to miss it. people are openly speculating there could be an alien super structure. from hip hop rapper to clergyman

to globe trotter. joe i have simmons and his wife drop by. i brought a tiger and a leopard into my studio. that is not the beginning of a great joke. watch how i react to a large predatory cat. it's real sweet. let's kick things off on the "topical storm." when jack frost is trying to steal your credit card, come to me. this is the "topical storm." at a basketball game a young woman named sally had the chance to win a quarter million dollars. all she had to do was sing a half court shot. -- was sink a half court shot. let's see if sally does it. sally, she is so pretty. her halloween colors. it falls out of her hand. fall short of half court.

it was so awful. the team should confiscate money from her. i have seen zoo animals play better than that, sally. s that's right. yes. that was just a half-court shot. the pros can sing them from much further like michael jordan. watch. beautiful. i love tricks. topic number two. meet edward, she is cute and curious. but she has an extraordinary sense of coordination andon rhythm. here she is playing drums, and she is about to school any skinc meters four types her age. watch this.

-- four times her age. [♪] i hope she thick of the country turkey while she is laying waste to those drup heads.n amazing ti topic number 3. very good news. for people like you who like experimental haircuts. a barber in spain has added fire and sword play to his haircutting technique. if you ever thought, i wish my barber would use pyrotechnics. this is your guy. barber licencing i think is a government scam to crew over poor people. but in this case it might make sense. he's literally setting people's hair on fire and playing with

razor fingers.it it make we wistful for my old barber. i wonder what ever happened to that guy. that was my redheaded face. topic number four. topic martin o'malley is never going to be president. but that doesn't stop hip from groveling for votes and doing anything an obscure interviewer asks. here he is rapping about guns, guns, guns. >> please vote for me, not clinton or sanders or huckabee. the nra hates me because i don't like guns, i don't like guns. >> there you go. proving the hashtag white lives matter will never trend. good job martin.

topic number 5. once or twice a year cats break down and ask for human aeffect. when that happens they can be pretty insistent as this girl found out. oh, my god, i seriously would have taken a flame thrower to that animal. if a cat tackled my human, i would have tickled i it's innar. within minute. i think that was assault. i love animals. they are delicious. two married administrators at yale left their jobs after a fire store started by even ranged students.

eric said the university should hold back on telling students ways offensive in halloween could up toes. here is a moment of controversy between nicholas and taken outraged student. >> if that's what you think, you should step down. it is not about creating an intellectual theme it's about creating a home here. >> i don't understand a word you are saying. greg gutfeld joined me to talk about pc police take over college campuses. >> these are actual infants who are refusing to be fed. they are in a college and they refuse to absorb knowledge. they don't want to listen to any persuasion. my suggestion is let them have a safe space. we need a safe space from their safe space.. i think we should move away from

them and give them an arena unfettered by law and freedom of speech and let them evolve into an anarchy "lord of the flies." it reminds me of the moral panic of the 90s over preschools. they accused preschools of satanic abuse. there was no proof of it. but all you needed was thee acca accusation. ken require's a powerful tool. i understand if there have been incidents on campus. i understand that student wouldt be justify any upset.th but how does it turn from people having concerned into total blood lust? where did we take that turn? >> what happened is we indulged the identity politics. it's now about how you feel, not how you think. once you feed that beast, the beast never gets full.

>> with your book are you feeding the other beast? >> i'm trying to feed the other beast. you are trying to get me to plug my book. this book is about getting people to be able to argue persuasively to argue facts not emotion. i haiti motion in argument. i try to use humor and statistics and facts. however, i don't think these students are worthy of debate.ma kennedy: they are not interested in rational discussion. you are talking to crazy peoplee you are talking about overly emotionalized people. it's the only term that fitsno what's going on in these campuses. >> they are accusing you of violence when you are using words. imagine what they would accuse you of when no one else is around. kennedy: the nsa has been in the

spotlight. is government surveillance something to protect us or a needless intrusion. >> the big person pushing this is marco rubio. i think he's dead wrong on this. if he spent more time in congress voting he might realized the bulk collection program is ongoing. we had it for a decade and we still had it a couple days ago. so the boston bombing happened while we had bulk collection. and even san bernardino. we still had the program ongoing and it didn't stop any of these terrorist attacks. two bipartisan commissions looked at the nsa program and said did it stop any terrorist attack, and they couldn't find any terrorist attack it stopped. the courts set it's illegal. you had marco rubio advocating for something the courts set is

illegal. so i think we ought to be careful for giving our liberty for a false sense of security. kennedy: marco rubio stood up with you during your drone filibuster to talk about and rail against government intrusion. what happened to him to turn him into a liberty despising neocon. >> he has been the biggest advocate for regime change an thought it was a good idea to topple what dad toda -- qaddafi. same with assad. he's still arguing for coming assad in syria. i was arguing against it. i said if you do this there is a good chance isis or other radicals will control syria by the time you topple assad. but they haven't learned much from middle east history.

this is becoming a big focus of the presidential debate whether regime change is a good idea or nation building is a good idea. i think this will be an important and instructive for the electorate to decide what they want. if they want another iraq war, i'm sure marco or bush or hillary clinton will take them back over there. i don't think. >> the big land war in the middle east is the answer. kennedy: colin quinn joins me. but first montel williams and i get into a heated debate about mass shootings and gun control. this is not about guns.

>> within hours of the san bernardino shooting, advocates sounded the alarm for more laws regulating guns. montel williams was my guest and we gone it to a heated conversation about gun control. >> there is one thing this country you have to get a license for and have a doctor evaluate or physical evaluation form to get a license to drive an automobile. last year alone automobiles killed 38,000 people in the united states. nobody complains about the fact you have to go to dmv, you have to show you are physically able to drive a car.

you get a license, you drive your car, you drive the all you want. if you sell your car to your child you go to the dmv and say you did so. i think an american my right is to protect the constitution. kennedy: you are a smart person and you are a lot smarter than that because i hate to break it to you because i have a great deal of respect for you. this is not about guns. >> i'm not making it about guns. ken you are. you are conflating the dmv with the department of what? >> my finish is this. we want to register people. why don't we use this as an opportunity to register gun owners. american citizens who could be radicalized in any direction are sitting there as your neighbor.

not just the ones who flew in. why can't we have a registry of who has them. i have 14 guns. i don't mind registering my guns. kennedy: this guy got his guns legally. what about the bombs? should we get a bomb registry as well? >> if you go and buy pounds of black powder maybe i should track the person who does so. kennedy: montel ... >> i'm not registering pipes you buy. kennedy: this math mass murder happened in southern california and if you -- >> there will be more of them, kennedy. kennedy: if you look at all the ways it's almost impossible top acquire firearms in california. there is an incredible article listing how difficult it is to get a gun. go to washington, d.c. go to chicago.

go to the places where there is a lot of violence and and lot of gun laws and there is a direct correlation. this is not about guns montel. >> do you know you have to prove you can see. you have sight to drive a car? i'm just saying i can weed out some of the people who are so crazy just by making you walk in the door. i'm not -- i believe in the second amendment. you can't stop any begun i have. the on the way i'm going to stop people without men at capacity. kennedy: how do i protect myself from a terrorist who might be working in the cubical next to me. i appreciate you though we may disagree on this. "saturday night live" quinn

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♪ watching in a winter watchlist land! ♪ xfinity's winter watchlist. watch now with xfinity on demand- your home for the best entertainment this holiday season. kennedy: the keep her telescope recently identified a new star. it's make scientists wonder about the possibility of a civilization that built a mega structure around the star to harness its energy. what is this flickering star business? >> this story could be as big as the discovery of the wheel. the invention of fire. we are talking about a story of all stories. this could change our

understanding of our place in the universe and a meg a structure bigger than a planet that's controlled by intelligence or the story could be a dud. ken there is an optical telescope looking for dimming starlight. and it found something where thn light dims by 20%. normally light only dims by 1%.. what does that mean? >> it means we scientists don't know what the hell we are talking about. it means we are clueless as to what can cast a shadow bigger than jupiter. if this object is artificial it means a civilization has been able to manipulate an object bigger than jupiter. jupiter is thousands of times bigger than the planet earth and this is bigger than jupiter. we are going to the usual suspects.

is it a coat or meteor or asteroid.r, one by one we ruled out the possibilities. the last possibility is it's artificial. fit is, it's an object bigger than a planet casting a shadow in front of the moth i shall star. dyson it could be a dysonsphere. kennedy: i read that your notes and i don't understand a dysonsphere. >> it's built by you a civilization that can absorb all the starlight. you would have to be thousands of years ahead of us. one civilization harnesses the power of the atmosphere. weather control like buck rogers. this is a type two civilization that can play with stars like in "star trek." the federation of planets would be type two. what is type three in galactic.

what are we in comparison? do we play with the weather and the stars? we are type zero. we get our energy from coal and oil. so if this civilization, if it is one, it's thousands of years ahead of us. kennedy: it's 1,500 light years away. 5.8 trillion light years in every mile. it's hard to calculation how far away this thing is. but the kepler tell coach is offline. o it can't take in any of thatin data so we cannot learn anything more about this anomaly. >> the kepler satellite is offline because the gyroscopesb. kennedy: we can't bring it back to fix it. so what does that mean? >> if you were a conspiracy here

rift, aliens are know we are on to them. but what some people sake is we should point our radio telescopes to listen in on their i love lucy and their leave to it beaver. their television and radio. that's how we'll do it the next year. kennedy: let us train our radio telescopes on the far reaches oa the known universe and figureac out if we are going to have company. so are they going to obliterate all of us. >> we want remarkable proof because this is a remarkable claim. a claim of the century. five kennedy: what does your gut tell you? >> it could be a bizarre solar system with multiple planets eclipsing each opter in random ways. kennedy: more "topical storm" including the world's greatest

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kennedy: when a death star is barreling toward your planet, i'll guide your miss -- your missiles. thank god will farrell has a new movie coming out so he can dust off his w impression by makingat fun of the republican field. >> rubio and cruz, sounds like a miami law firm. if you have been injured on the job, call rubio and cruz. then you have got this knucklehead.ehead. i'll tell you whenever i get in a bad mood i picture his big fat

face. face. poor jeb. you have got to admit it's a pretty good plot twist that i turned out to be the smart one. kennedy: you can see liberalism bleeding through the brilliancee i hope this movie flops so he can bring back w for a few more round. that and bernie sanders have bentsen's highlights. topic number 2. the "guinness book of world records" has declared the world record darth vader owner of collectibles. this vader vault has everything you can think of bearing the likeness. it's like the fort knox of nerds.

i'm impressed. but does your collection have the super limited edition of darth vader playing eddie murphy's dad in "coming tog ame? america"? i love it so much. topic number 3. starbucks is killing christmas. first it was the boring solid red secular holiday cups free from snowflakes, christmas freeze and mirrh. now they want to murder polar bears. these bringsly images have been trending as the floppy icing scarves look like blood. they were made for one season and that was back in 2010. keep your shirt on, people. come on. i'm sure starbucks has clubbed

baby fur seal cookies. topic number four, there must be so many cat ladies in academia. the cats really want to kill you but they don't because you are too big and their mouths are too small. check out this angry house cat who decided to do his best floyd mayweather up precious on a stuffed tiger. oh, yeah. that will hurt you. it's willing to take on a beast it knows with certainty will kill him with one swipe. but he persists. that's what your cat dreams of doing to you. boxing you into submission until you look like a starbucks polar bear.

if you hop on a bus without a ticket and the inspector calls you on it, you can try to talk your way out of it, pay the fine or escape out the window like this girl. there she goes. keep in mind this is belarus which is a soviet holdout. but it's entirely possible she is exaight poorly designed bus door. a bus ticket inspector is the belarusian animal. do you know what the punishment for fare dong is in belarus? death by cat boxer. where is your ticket? where is your ticket. if you have any weird stories

you want to see in the "topical storm," tweet me on kennedynation. and coming up. reagan's speech writer and famous columnistpeggy noonan.

kennedy: peggy noonan is a former speech writer for president reagan and the author of a brand-new book "the time of our lives," and she joined me to discuss they are unique role in politic and journalism. the first time i met you was as a correspondent for stossel and i stopped you because i wanted to squeeze you like a lemon into my empty cup of knowledge so you could at least disperse a little

bit of what you learned over your life. one of my fast it thing i read about you what you call the fir phase your professional career, in radio, you learned a specific and under used skill, writing for the ear. explain for me what that is. >> i had been trained as a journalist in college to write for the eye. to write for a newspaper or d magazine. people sit, they read. broadcasting is different. tv and radio. but especially radio. there is an announcer or anchorman or reporter who is saying word into the air. and the people listening have to understand it the fir time.. and it has to break through to them and they have to be able to hold on to it. so in a wait' a whole different craft. it has different rules and different disciplines. kennedy: obviously you took that

into the reagan white house. and when you were giving a lecture at the kennedy school at harvard and someone asked you what is it like writing in a white house, what did you say? >> it's heaven. indeed it was. that was -- the book actually begins -- it's a collected writings. my fast it things i have written the past 30 years. one of the things is that lecture you mentioned. it opened the book and it was about the day in the reagan white house and the space shuttle challenger exploded. i was asked to talk about a day in government that made an impression. and we had a wonderful back and forth about that. kennedy: you said if you areto going to be a speech writer do it in your 20s and 30s.

when you are in your 40s you have to write your own stories in your own words. you wrote that speech that ronald reagan gave to the country that he comforted the nation with. how much did that change your life? >> i can't say it changed my life except as i told the student, we all have jobs. we go into the job every day. it's the same job. you are going threw the motions, but you have to start each day maybe demand of you. something may happen and you may have to meet it. so just be ready and then just give everything you have got to that moment. kennedy: i love peggy noonan, she is such an inspiration. become a reality hip top star,

simmons is now a minister. he rev runs around the world. ♪ taking the family around the world ♪ >> my idea of a good time. their idea is off the beaten path and driving me nuts. kennedy: they recently stopped by. you are celebrating your love and family on the road. >> traveling. kennedy: what's the best part.t? >> with a rap group you travel and you tour.d you get off the tour bus, you hit the stage and you get back on the tour bus and go to the next town. with this i went to all the places i went to throughout the 80s, but i brought my family. i got to see things that were

once a blur to me. kennedy: and you tried to slow down. kennedy: you guys re different ways of experiencing the word. >> she wanted a cup of coffee and it took two hours up ae, cai mountainyou could just call room service. kennedy: you will never forget it. >> i felt i was going to call. you get up to the top of the mountain it was range. >> but it was beautiful. t >> beautiful rain. >> jamaica is lovely. they have more than coffee there. >> beef patties were good. >> their ching is so good. kennedy: was there ever a time when you were worried for your family or safety? >> dubai was crazy for me.

they call it dubai, i call it don't buy. she wanted to buy everything in is a place called the gold suit. it's suppose to be inexpensive jewelry. when i came into the store she had a big gold necklace. cheaper, cheaper than what? >> a lot of things there were cheaper they said. >> i want to change the name to don't buy. >> there was an unsafe situation. >> in iceland? cold. first all it's cold. land of ice. we went whale watching in iceland. kennedy: romantic, right? >> we were trying to we will

watch and the whale would not come up baits was too cold. it was hours before one would peek up and went back down. >> i just was going to say that we did almost -- we had a great time. kennedy: i'm going to travel the world with you guys. >> rev runs around the world. kennedy: i would like them to kidnap me so i could become an honorary simmons. large predatory cats near the studio. i'm definitely able to see savings

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kennedy: snl and fellow alum colin quinn is a comedy legends. now he's starring in a broadway one-man show. colin came by so we can talk about his show and a little bit more. a lot of people think jerry seinfeld is the busiest guy in the world.th he direct your show. but he's not doing much, is he? >> he's on the road every weekends. kennedy: why would you want him to direct you're show if he's so busy? >> because he loves me. ken require's a wonderful journey through new york city and these various stereotypes. but you have say there is in new

york city, characters fading. >> they move on. they become slightly, you know -- people move to different places and become more suburban or whatever. kennedy: you grew up in >> now it's dull. ken wirt's kmart and starbucks. havi honed. you were a professor sociology at the university of missouri, how quickly you be run out of school. would >> i would quit. kennedy: a lot of comics say they don't do college dates because they are so politically incorrect. >> the colleges the past 20e years have gotten so dish don't

even know if it's people's individual feelings or it's peer pressure. it's such a complex thing, the psychology of a crowd. so it's -- yeah, colleges -- kennedy: it seems like a fairly new phenomenon. >> 28 colleges have been politically correct.ec but not now. i can't even conceive of what it must be like. somebody must go whoa, whoa,y wh whoa! >> i think they would get pitch forks and light them on fire.e you have written a book but you refuse to write anymore. >> i'm done with that. kennedy: because you like talking so much? >> i like an immediate response to what i say.

kennedy: do you remember the first time we met? >> on mtv. kennedy: it was in the hamptons. and dr. gray was there. >> even in those days. they try to save a buck any way they can. kennedy: you have geographic threats. regular viewers of the show may know i'm not a cat person, but that only appeals to house cats. but a wildlife expert stopped by with a couple of cats that aren't that deadly yet. i would like to nurse a tiger. and thank good news you have a bought of some sort of creamy substance in your hands.

if only we had a tiger. >> we do. >> look at the little muffin top. can i pet this animal? did i hear someone whisper cleanup? you have a cute little meow. >> they are one of the most critically endangered. there are more tigers in captivity than there are in the wild. so these guys are a species of concern. does it want more milk? >> she don't know what's going on. she wants to explore. kennedy: does she wants to kill us?

>> no, she wants to go play. were you squeezing her in a certain way? >> it calms her. she is only 3 months old. she is probably 25 pounds. tigers can get to be 450. if you are going to hold her, this is when you hold her. one of the cool things we have been doing all week in big cat week is safari live. it's giving viewers the opportunity to be on live safari every night throughout the weekend. it's live. watch it from the comforts of your home. this guy is a black leopard. you can see her spots still. look at those spots. can we see that? does that show up on the high-definition televisions that

we love buying from costco? >> these are another species that we are highlighting during big cat week? kennedy: are these in danger? >> these are a species we don't know a lot about. that's one of the reasons we are doing big cat week to get the awareness out there. >> she'll get half this size again. she'll proper out around 80 pound or so. kennedy: qua what "star wars" character would make the best commander-in-chief. i hit the streets to find out. feel a cold coming on?

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kennedy: "star wars" in the news and politicians are jumping in as well. sometime it's hard to remember who is running for president and who is the george lucas character.

"star wars" fever is gripping america as is presidential fever. i think it's time to hit the street and combine the two to see if i have the cure. but which character from "star wars" would make the best president?rs" feve >> yoda of course.ine the tw yoda or president. kennedy: which "star wars" character would be the best president? >> luke sky walker. >> probably luke. >> he's a je -- i knight. he's wise but maybe too cautious. >> chewbacca. >> probably chewbacca. >> why i that? >> because he's big and he knows what he's doing.

>> oh, my god, the wookie. kennedy: why chewy? >> so hairy. >> i thought i would be the on one who liked hairy beasts. m kennedy: do you like "star wars"? >> yes. >> which "star wars" character would make the best president? which "star wars" character is like donald trump. >> jabba the hut. >> darth vader. >> in this day and age do we need someone who's evil i guess. kennedy: that's one thing missing from this presidential race. kennedy: watch "kennedy" monday

through thursday on fox business network. video collection. (doorbell chiming) oh, hey, hi, dean. hey, hi there, uh... bob. (narrator) from the battlefield to the white house, from hollywood to the heartland, america's entertainer was bob hope. oh, this room, it's so dull and depressing tonight. if only there was some way to brighten it. oh, of course. (laughter) (narrator) he was a true patriot. (bob hope) this has been a great trip.