hard as campaigning as hardrumpd then having a white house staff you didn't find amusing and good friends. that's it for us tonight. thanks for being with us. good night. kennedy: tonight think about all the celebrities whining about president trump. maybe all the blubbering is a good thing. the president-elect's $1 trillion infrastructure sounds great for a crumbling nation. what about immigration? the incoming administration's latest plans they say will keep the nation safe from terrorists. flip the switch. i'm going to light it up. if politics is a reaction, we have gotten a front-row seat to

overreaction thanks to snl, the cast of "hamilton" and the american music award. i don't expect artists to embrace donald trump. that would be unsettling. the best air for artistry are always through cultural shift that fort rebellion. you could argue ronald reagan created punk rock and hip hop. one of the beneficiaries of punk influence put his anger on stage during last night's amas. kennedy: no trump, no kkk, no fascist usa.

this is exactly what they are supposed to be doing. the only continues is media is so diffuse there are so few outlets with a concentrated audience, emotionalists feel obligated to sound off when the red light is on. >> this uniquely american experiment. rock 'n roll, a mixing of culture, rhythm and passion is what made this country the greatest country in the world. kennedy: even snl had the good sense to poke fun at the left in their liberal bubble skit. >> in here it's like the election never happened. >> no knows what in the hell is happening in their america. the bubble will be a fully functioning liberal state.

>> we are a diverse america who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us. or differences and uphold our inalienable rights. kennedy: now no one is talking about the show, only the showboating. donald trump had it wrong when he overreacted to the slight on twitter writing theater must always be a safe and special place, the cast of "hamilton" was rude to vice president-elect mike pence. no, no more safe spaces. pence just shrugged and said he loved the show. that's how you do it. get government out of the way. let business create jobs and smile when everyone benefits

from a rising tide overwatching prosperity. i'm happy you are here. i'm kennedy. here to shake some sense into popular culture it's molly eming way, senior editor at the "federalist." you work at the federalist, an organization named for the federalist papers of which alexander hamilton authored over half. but some of the people on stage seem to have missed the day they taught about that in history class. >> the speech was one thing on the stage after the performance, but the booing i thought was interesting and that came from the crowd as well. i'm a total fan of booing politicians. but more of when they are on stage than whenner in in the

audience. wait for them to throw out an opening pitch at a game or flip off their motorcade when they are driving by. don't disrupt the entire performance. kennedy: that's all anyone is talking about. but i think pence did a good job of moving on and taking the spotlight away from him which i know is a difficult thing to do. when you walk into the hornets' nest and you get soundly stung. let's talk about the american music award. a lot of my colleagues. i was on with stuart a varney and he was so upset by some of the comments that people made, particularly the unfunny impression of melania trump, what did you think of the ama? >> i think that model did not do a graiment precious. but she is pretty and did a good

evident trying. i think we are in a great place where people are mock or disdaining the president. that's a generally healthy thing. you mentioned ronald reagan bringing forth punk rock. i think margaret thatcher takes credit for that as well. but the punk rock scene primed itself for reagan and thatcher. grow dayed a the anti-war stuff during the bush era. far more americans died in iraq and afghanistan under president obama and president bush. so it's nice to have them back but i wonder why everybody was in a coma for the last 8 years. kennedy: though i may have fundamental disagreements with

some of them. i'm excited to see the musical product of this generation and this time in history. thanks for pointing that out. and thanks for being here. i appreciate it. let's bring on my radioactive party panel. fox news contributor guy benson is here. he's been one lucky guy on that show many times. imheedian ben kiss he will -- comedian been kissel. let's talk about this. who is -- whose mind do you think these people are change with they go on rants on twitter or on stage? >> i think every single person who might have thought i'm short of for trump but green day shout out the kkk, all of those people were probably deeply moved and

affected. and all of those people are zero people. i had a better impression of donald trump until the celebrities told me that i shouldn't like him because that works so well for the last year and a half. kennedy: it didn't work out well, here you have hip hop royalty jay-z and queen b and they couldn't seal the deal for hillary clinton. and somehow they completely failed to deliver the presidency. >> i think it ended up hurting. i don't think it cost her the presidency. a video talking about how she wants to imagine the world without straight white men and how funny it would be if we were

eradicated. >> a lot less babies. it does take away from hillary's message and played into the elitist narrative that she was never able to shake. kennedy: kanye west went on a pro-trump diatribe. sometimes he was anti-jay-z. he says my vision, i'm not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way, but i'm going to say how i feel. that's what i have been blessed with. he sounds like the hip hop version of shelly duval. >> between kanye west and mark cuban, i don't know which super dude is more jealous that donald trump beats them at their own a game. kanye west threatened to run for president. trump made the mold, he broke

it, now he's in office. all of these people are having celebrity same jealousy. kennedy: if we look at the trump presidency as a reaction to the obama presidency. obviously a majority of country bought into it. and now you can say that president-elect trump is the opposite of that. what will the opposite of trump be? maybe elizabeth warren. >> no. kennedy: meantime president obama has refused to say whether he would honor the longstanding tradition of ex-presidents avoiding attacks against their successors. i really have dreams of that. how well did president obama do during the election of attacking donald trump? he made a very forceful days

case, dent. >> i can gift same answer i did about green day. is there another couple with more charisma and influence than beyonce and jay-z, maybe barack and michelle obama who were called the closer. the president says unless you vote for hillary clinton my legacy is tarnished and my legacy will go down the tubes, and the american people said that sounds good to us. kennedy: he chastised hillary clinton for not reaching out to hostile territory. what changed between last 10 days, 10 days ago when president and president-elect were sitting side by side and being he fusive about the meeting they just had, and talking about each other in glowing terms. what changed? >> i think president obama is going to be the most bitter ex-president and most vocal

ex-president we have had in modern times. as soon as trims inaugurated he will be on the view with a bunch of of crying joy ba berks harts. i'm not look forward to it. it's going to be insufferable. michelle as well. kennedy: what i'm surprised about with michelle obama is she didn't start running for senate a year ago. i want to know how you feel about this. i think the president is extra upset not only at donald trump, and this is someone he thought he would beat by campaigning from the sidelines. he's mad at hillary because he dobbsn't get a -- he doesn't get a multi-billion done a foundation. >> he's setting himself up for what he's going to be talking

about in public when he gets paid millions of dollars to perform in front of bill why airs. kennedy: is there still a market for that? >> for barack obama, absolutely. there will be fine wine and cheeses as they discuss what they are going to do to try to curb poverty. >> he will be on every talk show and late night show where he can complain about donald trump and try and salvage his legacy and reputation which is already gone. >> barack obama die ported 2.5 -- deported 2.5 million illegal immigrants so he doesn't a leg to stand on. kennedy: president obama was as well disastrous for the war on drugs. but he won't be able to stay away from the spotlight. >> when george w. bush came into

office there is a famous anecdotes where the clinton staffers removed the ws from the keyboards. president bush said i'm never going to do that. his transition to obama was extremely gracious and helpful. obama is trying to emulate that but he won't take up president bush's post-presidency model where you keep your mouth shut. kennedy: i know that when clinton tblawlts white house. but he became friends with george h.w. bush, then he only appeared every once in a while and that gave people a tremendous sense of nostalgia. i don't think obama has the wherewithal to foster that sort of nostalgia. the party panel, they are

returning later. melania and barron trump will staying behind in new york. brian brenberg joins me to break it down in mere minutes. please join us. ways wins.

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kennedy: welcome back. if you have spent any time on our nation's highways or byways or an airport, donald trump's infrastructure plan can sounds enticing. >> we are going to fix our inner city and rebuilt our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals. we are going to rebuild our infrastructure. which will become by the way second to none. and we'll put millions of our people to work as we rebuild it. kennedy: it sounds like a pretty good plan.

who do you think is set to gain. we the people or a select number of developers. brian brenberg is here, associate professor business and economics and the chair of business and finance at the king's college in manhattan. he's a construction guy. he wants to build things and improve them. you can't blame him for that. but to who can afford a trillion dollars. >> you have to be spectacle when democrats and republicans will be on board with something. so that's what you need to look at here. first of all, infrastructure is a jobs program, not a good idea. that's what he's talking about here. we have seen the results time and again. whether it was the stimulus in 2009 or japan. these things don't produce jobs.

number two the money almost always goes to projects that are great for politicians but have dubious economic value for the rest of us. kennedy: it's hard to show the cause and effect relationship between making this trillion dollar investment. there was a bill congress passed for $300 billion. >> typical for him he hasn't put out a detailed plan. he talks about anything from $550 billion to a trillion dollars. kennedy: particularly the toll road in southern california. can you have a private partnership that don't involve tax breaks? >> if you want to do it that way privatize the systems. it's utility basically. you are going to run the toll

road and we'll get a percentage of that and the got will regulate that process. it's sort of what we are talking about here. the problem is, the infrastructure we need to fix is a lot of the things you can't put a toll on like the sewage system in the city or updating roads that already exist. if you want to put a toll on everything, fine. but that's unlikely. guess who doesn't like toll roads? taxpayers don't like toll roads. i like privatizing infrastructure, but you will run into problems there. if you are talking about a trillion dollars on this model, a lot experts are saying you won't be able to raise that money. kennedy: we already peso much in a gas tax. and that money doesn't go to infrastructure projects. >> structure should be paid for from the bottom up in the local

community. if a stimulus didn't make sense under barack obama it won't make sense under trump. they are things that won't help people. kennedy: you nailed it there, it's top down which means it's wasteful and the taxpayers are the ones who get hosed. i hope there is a free market here and there whispering in the president's ear. i think it should be brian brenberg. thanks for coming back. happy thanksgiving. have a beautiful holiday with your family. >> sure will. kennedy: let's hear from james rosen on what we can expect from a drumme administration and what it will look like. stay right here.

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kennedy: democrats portray donald trump as an authoritarian. so will president trump be a dictator or a compromiser. let's ask james rosen. he's author of the "new york times" best-selling book, "a torch kept lit." great lives of the 20th

century. i'm obsessed with the images. talk about this. the left fears the dictatorship where the right says maybements too much of a compromiser. can you be both? >> those two things cannot logically coexist. i think if we want to predict how donald trump is going to go verb, his own past statement are of limited use because he basically exert i'm free of that convention where a politician feels what he says on tuesday has to align with what he says on wednesday. i think his business career in new york is the best predictive model. kennedy: you point aught here he was. he has all these institutions he has to fight against but at the same time modernize things and make some money. how would you categorize his experience as a real estate developer and how might that

transcend into the president? >> it's a blend of. >> i diesm. i'm going to put in a spectacular skyscraper there, but also prag ma tim. when he was a real estate developer he understood he was entering an ecosystem that predated him and he would find interest groups and pressure blocks. and some he would have appease. there is every reason to believe he will enter the business of governing in washington the same way. he will be able to circumvent some of the people, he will have to navigate some of them which is cut a deal, and others veil to appease. kennedy: he has got and lot of criticism for donating to campaigns of charles schumer and hillary clinton. but he knows that pragmatism, you have to do that. think about new york city unions and what that must have been

like long before he entered the real estate market, and trying to do something within that without necessarily changing it. is that like washington? >> it speaks towards perhaps an ability to move across or reach across the partisan divide. trump's history of working with unionized workers played footy with endorsing donald trump. kennedy: his brand of populism resonated with a lot of union workers. not necessarily boss. >> not public sector unions, but industry unions. kennedy: not the seiu. those filthy communist bastards. i want everyone to buy your book

"a torch kept lit." there is something interesting about these eulogies that you edited. it makes you realize how important a eulogy is and how it's a lost art in this culture. you have to look back honestly at someone's life and pay tribute and some of the -- and soften the edges. buckley cultivated friendships sometimes over decades of time. 30 out of 50 times he's writing about people he knew personally. he was a novelist so he brings his literary gift. they are very emotionally impactful pieces. i dare say those of our viewers who get "a torch kept lit" will find that it serves to deepen that friendship.

kennedy: you find it must have been difficult for him to write them and edit. but you did a beautiful job. congratulations on the success of the book. you e a good friend, james reasons. you can eulogize me some day. >> i hope not to be in that position. we'll go out together thelma and louise style. kennedy: i'll get my convertible. we'll tell you why 007 is in the p.c. cross-hairs. what powers the digital world? communication. like centurylink's broadband network that gives 35,000 fans a cutting edge game experience.

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kennedy: what have i done? i brought this fresh hell all over new york city. donald trump signaled he's in no hurry to move melania and his son barron into the white house. he says he will make it move but want barron to stay in his currents school until the end of the year. i absolutely obsessed with these details. it seems like it's not a big

deal except for the part where they have a whole secret service detail, than has to be snore security insulating this family. if he's going to school on the upper westside, it will be a monster. >> my mom said she thought it was strange to not have a first lady in the white house. the problem is you live on the up he westside. this studio is close to trump tower. they have to screen streets. i don't know what's going to happen. but as someone who is in a long distance relationship in d.c. and he's going to go home every weekend. >> i respect this about her. she is a stay at home mom. i knew of it would be six months before we moved our kids to new york to l.a. and i was on a plane every

weekend flying back and forth. it sucks, but you have got to keep your kids in a stable a environment. >> she is taking care of her kid and barron comes first. leave melania alone. i have so much respect for her. she knows five languages, she got thrown into his position no one could handle. it's very difficult position. kennedy: is she the first first lady you got turned on by? >> no, i had a thing for barbara. john quincy adams' wife, whee don't know if she posed used in but she is a person who needs to be respected. kennedy: they will treat the white house like a guest house. >> they will hold the important stuff at the white house. but donald trump, he's got places everywhere.

we heard about them them for a long time. and he's going to do in this case what's best for his kid. if people want to get -- there has been so stitch outrage over everything he has done. to attack this is really -- kennedy: speak of outrage. i have got a new one. is james bond so masculine he's toxic to society? >> no. kennedy: a conservative british lawmaker says yes. arguing bonds pose a psychiatric risk to vulnerable men who might become further detached and commit suicide. is oo7 a swatch icon or license to kill yourself? what's wrong with people? these are aspirational characters.

>> what are the p.c. police trying to take away from me. hot, masculine men? you can't take that away from me. >> i totally agree. let's lower the expectations for all men that way. perfect. i'm tall on that. a fat james bonds. got to work the watch. cheese sandwiches, stains all over him. kennedy: pratt falls. >> randy quaid would be great james bond. kennedy: why miss with 007. >> this british lawmaker should be thrown out in the next election. it would be an american politician coming out and trying to ban apple pie. the only dumb pun i can couple with is i was hang, not stirred

by this story. i like the daniel version. kennedy: my previous guest james reasons says the unsung bonds is pierce brosnan. trump's transition team says the u.s. will ban immigrants from countries where there are terrorists. please stay with me.

keedy: they are glad to have you. one of donald trump's noaflt controversial campaign promises was to ban all muslims from entering the united states. reince priebus said this over the weekend. >> president-elect's opinion is there are some people within that particular religion that we do fear. but he also made it clear that we don't believe in religious tests and we are not blanketly judge an entire religion but we will try to pinpoint the problems and temporarily suspend those areas coming into the

united states until the better vetting system is in place. kennedy: are we facing an attempt at a muslim registry? here to discuss, a senior analyst at the reason foundation. welcome, how are you doing? you have written a lot about this. i think reince priebus is appealing to people's fears, that somehow donald trump will be the force that keeps them safe from radical islamists who are in this country or come to this country and wish to do use great deal of harm. but if you we are dealing with the law unintended consequences. what are some of the unintended consequences you see from a mild incarnation of this? >> first of all, his comments made clear there was a bet going

in, if trump gets elected those in the party will rein in some of his words and ideas. that was wishful thinking. it seems priebus is going to enable trump. the muslim registry idea was one of trump's signature initiatives during this campaign. but, you know the problem with it is even in a milder form the united states tried it under president bush it didn't work out very well. bush put in place a program called the national entry-exit system which required muslim then this country who were knot citizens to register with the feds. idea was to catch terrorists. talk about unintended consequences. terrorists are not going to march into the i.c.e. office and say fingerprints me.

kennedy: they are also not going to answer questions about whether they are part of a terrorist organization or have went in past it's the same with people who illegally obtain guns and commit a mass murder. just because they haven't committed a crime in the past, they are not going to goin a gun store. that's not how it works. unfortunately. so you have written extensively about this, though, and one of the solutions that you have offered is a way to keep us safe is actually model tour security in this country after private systems like they have in places like israel. >> right. my suggestion to donald trump would be tbub want to secure the borders. first thing you need to do is not engage in these idiotic muslim bands. what you need to do is create legal after news for immigration.

start a guest worker program with mexico and let people come in legally and the ones who are coming in illegally, it will be itch easier to catch them if they are terrorists or people who wanted to do is any hoorm. but if you are -- do us any harm. but if you are going to stop other tourists who come to this country as much as you wants to stop terrorists. you will have scene overflooding' immigrants for all kinds of purposes and you can't keep a tab on. kennedy: if you try to keep everyone out you will give people a false false sense of safety. coming up. schools cracking down on playground bears that devour children. "topical storm" is next. incredible bladder protection in a pad this thin, i didn't...

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kennedy: when jack frost is nipg at your nose and putting his hands in your pockets. come to me and i'll not give you poison sider. this is the "topical storm." with enough energy and determination you can make anything into a gym. even a train. wow. look at that.

that's a swedish free runner if you watch this for 20 straight minutes. it's kind of mesmerizing. they are calling him a train ninja just for that move alone. real ninjas go through a grueling training period. he was at the beginning of his training. topic number two. i wasn't being suggestive. i have lipstick on my teeth. occupational hazar love can happen at any age and any time. just like irritable bowel syndrome. but sometimes it leads to pure genius like one boy who decided to propose to his sweet

girlfriend. >> sweet see normous diamonds and propose to milly. kennedy: it's so beautiful. you know little guys are watching engagement rings are heavy artillery so don't deploy them unless you are ready because when you do, it will be absolutely worth it, like this happy couple. on second thought, let's not rush into anything.

kennedy: topic number three. it's been a successful 2016. so why not lighten up with a feel-good heartwarming story. russians have trained gentle igor to frolic with children on a pray ground. it's -- on a playground. it's very sweet. why aren't they frolicking with gentle igor? why does igor look content like he has just eaten a big meal? i'm kidding of course. that's a circus bear and its handler is nearby and he didn't meet any children. just toddlers. topic number four. we have all seen the footage

from the turn of the last century of a man getting hit in the stomach with a cannonball. lou dobbs took one for the team. the human race has come a long way since then. we turned cannons into cameras and cannon balls into runs. what are we supposed to shoot men in the stomach with in the answer seems rather obvious. chicken fajitas. really? after losing a bet with his friend, that man had to be the first person to ever have a

jitta wrea --have a a have a have a fajita wreak havoe outside of his stomach. this story was suggested by a viewer using the #topicalstorm. why did the chicken cross the road? it didn't. because there were 20,000 ducks blocking its path. oh, man. so many ducks. what is this, the peabody hotel? good lord.

the ducks are so orderly. think about how many pillows you could make out those birds if you had two or three hand grenades laying around. that would be the best night's sleep in the world. and this would make for an interesting traffic report on national public radio. it reminds me of "duck hunt." remember? say hello. thank you so many for watching the show tonight. you can follow me on twitter and instagram. email kennedyfbn@foxbusiness.com. and tomorrow on the show i have got gavin mcinnis. and fox news contributor kt mcfarland. one heck of a day coming your way tomorrow night.

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