lou: third or fourth on that list is joining us on lou dobbs tonight. merry christmas. that's it for us tonight. stay with us tomorrow on trump's thank you tour. kennedy: did russia interfere in our election to get trump in the white house? the cia says yes, but trump says that's ridiculous. should sports fans be able to pack heat in a sports stadium? judge napolitano is here to break it down. have you ever had a hankering? grab a martini. the russians did the, so says the cia, the intel briefing

claims all their signs point to russian meddling in our election. they are not sure why the kremlin wants to wear comey red hats to d to wear commie red hats to make america great again. the obama administration came to this convenient conclusion months ago, convinced the dnc and john podesta hack were the results of what require any of s of wharussian fans. what if they felt it had been tainted with power mongering. maybe the president and cia are floating a convenient narrative

because they don't know who hacked and suede, but they do know our federal cyber-security is fourth world bottom of the barrel garbage. what we do know is the f.b.i. and cia have vastly different views of who may have tinkered with hidden facts. why? in a similar congressional briefing the f.b.i. did not conclusively say they thought it was the russians. and they don't have the same concrete interpretation of diffuse facts. we know they hate each other it was the f.b.i. thatside on then cia director david petraeus. others are pointing to russia's role in creating fake news stories that may have shifted perceptions against hillary clinton. that of course insults voters who may not have been mindlessly

drawn to trump over emails and giving russia more credit than they deserved. if they are so good at changing feeling and beliefs and actions, then defeating isis should be a no-brainer for them. i'm glad you are here to help me sort it out. i'm kennedy. the cia says russia tampered in our election. the democrats, maybe they are being losers. >> i don't believe it. i think the democrats are putting it out because they suffered one of the greatest defeats in the history of politics in this country. kennedy: ambassador john bolton says it could be a false flag operation.

welcome back, ambassador. you say that the intelligence has been politicized. what exactly do you mean with that statement in regard to the cia? >> i think we have seen over 8 years of the obama administration a lot of of politization dealing with the attack in benghazi. intelligence officers fitting the facts to the obama administration's narrative that terrorist threat is declining. it bothers me when we see a rush to conclude in what is a complex situation. kennedy: if that were the case, don't you think the f.b.i. would have come to the same conclusion? or have both of these agencies been so compromised we can't get a straight assessment from either? >> i think it's legitimate for intelligence agencies. the 16 or 17 that exist, to have

different points of view. when they move too rapidly to a consensus, i get nervous. i ask whether another foreign intelligence service other than russia might have conducted this operation and left evidence behind that pointed to russia to get them in the soup. kennedy: if you say too seen it was russia and it was a domestic act or china or north korea, don't you stop looking at those other sources of hackery. >> they would stop looking because it fits the right political narrative. i feel in the last 24 hours i have been taken advantage of by a political reporter who knows nothing about national security saying i was accuse the obama administration of attacking the dnc. i didn't say that. kennedy: i didn't get that from your statement. >> neither did most people.

but now it's a phenomenon. i notice senator mcconnell said though he won't set up a select committee. he wants the senate intelligence committee to look into it. mike pompeo will have a heavy responsibility to look and see what the facts are. kennedy: a lot of these people will be out of jobs, so they are being retroactively defensive of the whole operation to cover their own legacy? >> i watched john brennan director of the cia follow the administration's narrative on radical islam. there has been an i am per miserable mixing of policy and intelligence. i think this politicalization will be difficult for.

intelligence doesn't determine policy and policy shouldn't determine intelligence. kennedy: if the f.b.i. threw the race in trump's fair coming out saying they are continuing with the hillary investigation. doesn't it make sense they would use an agency that is aligned with them to refute what the f.b.i. was saying and cover obama's legacy in. >> if that happened it would be the worst abuse of the cia in american history. nothing surprises me about this administration with six weeks to go and no political consequences electorally. kennedy: here is my buffalo party panel for the evening. harris faulkner, co-host of

"outnumbered." anthony kumy and matt welch, editor at large of "reason" magazine. thank you for being here on such an important evening. so let's start talking about this. what do you think about the obama administration and the cia and some of ambassador bolton's comments that perhaps our intelligence agency that is taxed with so much, maybe they have become political. >> the cia leaked in front of the obama administration with the survey of the different intelligence agencies. the cia wanted to get their story out there first. it mixes up with the democratic party sense that it must have been stolen. you know, i send you -- text you pictures of the anti-commie

books i give my kid for christmas. but democrats are going too far over their skis on this. they are making a causal connection with what we think maybe the russian government has done here and the vote. there is no evidence anywhere that i have seen that the vote was tampered with. when you are talking about the russians hacking the election, you are making two or three connections there that haven't been connected. kennedy: a giant and i will long cal leap. it's incredibly dangerous. if you try to force that narrative and force those facts so much, then what's the ultimate end? that we redo the election? >> there are a few things that tip me off to thinking this isn't true. one of them being, when does the cia voluntarily tell the american people anything? all of a sudden this comes out

and they say it was hacked by the russians. another one is the f.b.i. and the cia disagreeing on this. it comes across as being politicized. i think we are back to the pre 9/11, i don't talk to you and you don't talk to me, and the american people are the big losers. kennedy: harris, you have a lot of democrats and republicans who are still willing to malign a lot of people who voted for donald trump. i don't think they did it mindlessly or because they were subversively convinced of something because of fake news or something that came out in the emails from foia requests or the podesta hacks. when are they going to admit their candidate did a bad job. maybe, just maybe she lost. harris: that's quite a question.

if we put all that aside because i don't have a timetable. i can't answer your question when they are going 0 do it. it's the middle of december and they haven't thought about doing it apparently. does it matter what they think? does it matter we know who hacked? isn't that the point? fit was russia and if it was -- if it was russia and they left a fingerprints, and fit wasn't russia, isn't it a huge problem that we aren't look for anybody else? so the big picture, hillary clinton lost. probably nothing will happen to change that. i say probably because i know they are still hoping. but for those of us who live in a world where when it rains you get wet without an umbrella and you are standing outside. the facts are always unfungible.

>> the electoral college voters are lobbying to get briefed by the cia. they should totally investigate this. i suspect vladimir putin in all of this. harris: investigate it because we the american people deserve to be protected. not because you think russia had a reason to tinker with the american election. wouldn't they just want to screw us? kennedy: it may be payback for what they feel is intervention and their political process. aren't there other people who would love to do that, too? harris: since when does the cia tell the american public anything. if the cia is going to jump out with information based on a leak, i have another problem.

are we going to believe he leak thatles cop out? 17 different intel agencies that looked at this. the cia wants to come out based on a leak. kennedy: does the president need his ear to the ground on national security every day? he doesn't seem to think so. >> i don't have to be told -- i'm a smart person -- i don't have to be told the same thing and the same word he single day for the next 8 years. could be. 8 years. i don't need that. but i do say if something should change, let us know. kennedy: president-elect trump said his generals and mike pence are getting briefed frequently. but in 2014 he criticized president obama for skipping the same intel reports. regardless of your background, or what side of the aisle you

sit on, i think it's good to get the briefings. >> i can understand they are probably redundant on a daily basis. he knows better than everybody. he knows exactly what to do. but he should be reading these briefings on a daily basis. kennedy: what good can come from not getting briefed? >> i guess if you only want to be briefed on the nuances of the report day to day. i guess the good is you can see highlighted change material. most of the time when you are making big decisions. i would call foreign policy a big decision as a mom. most of the time you need to context the things. what the redundancy gives you, it's not word for word redundant. it's contextually redundant. but that's not a bad thing. you want to get a feel for things. and maybe the president would have seen it wasn't jv but more

v. kennedy: are we being distracted by this issue? >> this is probably number 73 with the list of things to be concerned with. harris: what are the first 72 for you? >> it's a long list. he said some things about policies. i think jeff sessions is not a good selection for southern general. you don't want to distract him. let mike pence read these things and let donald trump be and smart person. kennedy: anyone who says they are smart is really smart. the party panel returns a little later. if chris christie wants to be in the trump administration why is he turning down so many jobs? a well-armed stadium, is that a

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kennedy: should fans be able to carry guns in a professional sports stadium? >> they would propose a bill to stop people with guns from entering their venues. another opponent says the combination of sports and guns would be a tax i can combo. welcome back, judge. i lived in washington state. it's a pretty liberal place. it raise an interesting question. >> that would be determined by the owner of the venue which from the case of almost all open-air athletic stadiums, the football stadiums and football

stadiums, it's the government. if the government says on government property even where there is large crowds, if if you are authorized to carry a gun you can carry it there. there is nolgt nfl can do about it. i think the nfl's challenge to this statute would fall. the crazy person at ohio state -- and the other awful incidents that we have seen elsewhere in the united states where the monsters like san bernardino and calve and orlando florida are like shooting fish in a barrel because they shot in the zones where guns were not permitted. it's no-gun, no self-defense.

if the legislature -- not the courts, if the legislature wants to make a determination that the people of the state of washington will be safer if they can carry guns in crowds. no matter what's going on, if the crowd is watch, football game, soccer match, that's a legislative determination. they would have to leave the state of washington. that is not something they want to do. kennedy: several attacks in paris took place in that giant stadium. people almost are incredibly vulnerable. sometimes that's not enough top cover the terns of thousands of people who go to these venues. i would feel better if there were people legally permitted to carry handguns. >> as much as though men and women risk their lives of every minute of every day.

necessity can't be everywhere. interesting yo thing is on prive property, if that land owner says no, that would probably trump your right -- no pun intended -- it would trump your right to carry that gun in the stadium. coming up, the white hoot crazy. comedian bill bellamy joins me with the darker side of celebrity and kanye west.

kennedy: kanye west back at home trying to simplify his life. as you may know was recently under doctor's care at ucla psychiatric center. still unclear what happened to him. but his handlers say the was dee hydration and sleep deprivation. or could it be mega fame that makes you crazy. the spotlight fry his sensitive brain or something else at work. let me welcome my good friends, a comedian, actor, ledge end.

bill stars in a new movie the bounceback. i'm glad you bounced back into my arms. >> i send you so receive love and big hugs. you feel love, right? i think the kanye thing is a very unique situation. that's hyper fame. strrp few celebrities get to have the cameras own on every little move you make. i think that would drive anybody crazy. even brad fifth and angelina jolie get a break. i think for him, especially him, it's probably very difficult to try to live up to what it is that kind of fame, provokes, you know. i would never want to be that kind of famous where i couldn't be a human. kennedy: you have to be married to kim kardashian who has a tv show and all she wants to be is

famous. i think our president select is or will be that famous. once's inaugurated he will be even more famous. so do you worry that our president atlantic might have a similar mental breakdown? >> i think he is not ready for that. i think president-elect trump is definitely a celebrity already. you know we know the name, we know the brand, to be the leader of the free world. i don't think he will be able to tweet like he used to. kennedy: he will feel confined. >> somebody will take that phone away where he usually can rant and do those things and the camera will be on him in such an intense way, i hope he's prepared for that. it's another level.

it's just a whole other level of perfection. you have to know what you want to say. tall your words have to fit. your energy has to be right. you have to hold your head a certain way and address your audience a certain way. kennedy: i want to talk about your latest movie "the bounceback." here is a clip. watch. >> the woman is not talking toite early of us. i emailed hire. she is on fab *. i liked it all the her pictures on instagram. linkedin. i went to every star bucks a chick would hang out. kennedy: and they drink it oprah chai. i'm a huge fan of you're movie career having seen a takeoff

with love jones in 1996. >> i love doing romantic comedies. they bring relationships together it's and great lady's night out for all the ladies who wants to kick it with their girls. to see a fun, happy movie. i think this movie prove sides that. i do a great job. >> bill bellamy is as one-man tour deforce. he's giving you rave reviews for the film. >> this weekend i'm going to be in tampa, florida at the improv. i only have one more date before the end of the year at the chicago theater. i'll spend new year's eve in chicago. kennedy: if people haven't seen your standup yet. a lot of people don't realize that's how you started. you have been refining that incredible act for 24 years and isince you burst on to the scen.

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kennedy: chris christie was one of the first major republicans to endorse donald trump. but according to trump he has apparently he's turned down every jobe was offered in the administration base wanted to be attorney general. we are told he said no to veterans affair, homeland security chief and white house adviser. trump offered the a.g. job to alabama senator jeff sessions. the party panel is back. i will start with you.

you know that the governor is incredibly unpopular at home. now he's been os extra sides off the trump train. harris: you remember a few weeks ago that we learned the vice president-elect pence would be take over as transition team leader and it would not be governor christie. my thought is now we know why. when you have a child in your house who is always begging for something other than what you give them, and those things are supposedly fabulous. then what do you do? you say no to that child. over and over again until that child gets the message that i am not going to get what i want. then they move on. they would love to see him out of the state of new jersey. but now he's got nothing. he won't be the a.g. other head of the va. is he our new ryan lochte?

>> after sandy embracing obama on the runway. well, some people were saying that did some damage to romney's campaign. and then him standing behind trump all that time during the campaign. and then to get nothing like this, i don't know what it proves, that maybe he's not competent. or that trump doesn't have this great loyalty toward these people. kennedy: those are two interesting things. those two gentlemen were supposed to get those big appointments and people referred to them as lollipops. jeff sessions wassed the lollipop. he was the first person in congress to endorse president-elect trump. >> what kind of army does chris christie bring?

jeff sessions is the leader of the immigration restriction group in congress and capitol hill. i disagree with him about that but he brings those people, chris christie brings nothing. christie, gingrich, giuliani, all of whom have pretty lousy careers except for the hundreds of thousands they can make giving lousy speeches. kennedy: i would love to give a lousy speech for $100,000. >> his political career was trashed because of bridgegate. he endorsed trump. remember he was running at the i'm going to reform entitlements guy. trump ran against that. i'm going to throw my stick in the trump. i'm wondering, have you ever had vivid memories of an event when you weren't there at all?

a study from new england warwick university claims 50% of the u.s., people here or rather 50% of us, i thought it was people in the u.s. actually never took part in the events they think they remember. did this happen to you? are you a fake rememberer? >> i hope i'm not. hopefully it's not fake news. anyway. 50% of us are fake remembering. >> for me the big issue wants what they remembered and what they didn't. but they attached to what they remembered to their attitude and actions. i can think of a group of political party and a former presidential candidate who would love this study. saying the fake stuff they hooked on to informed them of what to do. we still make choices based on ways before us.

kennedy: anthony do you suffer from brian williams -- >> i i have known and lot of people throughout the years, they were always a b.s. artist in school. maybe they thought they had really don't and they weren't lying. urban myths. a lot of those come up. my friend, i did it. you know it's fake so maybe that's part of this phenomenon. >> the more story telling you do in your life -- i think the study is wrong. >> go read a biography of a sports star. they measure everything. you can go and look and fact check all of these things. he got like 35 things wrong in a single chapter. kennedy: doesn't the publisher vet that? harris: when you read that some people chose to misremember

because their lives are so bad they didn't like the reality. fit only happened once, no one would know about it. kennedy: i will be your human shield. i have got your 6. harris: it 's a 12. kennedy: jack maxwell is back with a sneak peek at the travel show. i'm jack maxwell. i'm in c

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>> it translates to pomegranate punch. it's tequila, and poll grant at juice and nuts. >> i guess we'll chew on this drink outside. kennedy: that's not the strangest thing that will be drunk this season. "the booze traveler" follows jack maxwell across the country and around the globe sampling

some of the planet strangest delights. they have camel milk vodka and cow urine. a lesson we can all use these days, the host of "booze traveler" is jack maxwell piment premiered tonight on the travel channel at 10:00 p.m. >> thanks for having me back. kennedy: you had some great adventures including mexico where you had to fill the land for an ounce of tequila. >> i like tequila. kennedy: have you made the switch to mens cow?

>> everybody thinks you are suppose to slam it. that's the stereotype. kennedy: when you are in a sorority. >> they like that you sip it and enjoy it. if i'm drink it straight, it will be mass cow for me. kennedy: i had a tarantula as a pet when i was 8 years old. it was either that or a king snake. and my mom refused to get a snake. but you drink tarantula wine. >> in cambodia because that's what they do, of course. not in cleveland. kennedy: do countries just try and gross each other out? >> i would go there thinking is this a practical joke? times you get the feeling, is that guy going to drink that? i'm waiting for the punch line. this ways they do.

if a culture is going to have me in share be the family be the friends, the food and the drinks, i'm going to drink it. kennedy: i love that you brought some of the finall final -- of e final libations. >> this is called as you iian schnapps. i had to climb a 300-year-old tree to get it. kennedy: like a spider monkey you worked your way up the tree? >> and they extract the pine tar. they mix in a lot of sugar. you might be doing more than smelling that. i can hear it. by the way, they are going to know -- that's against the

rules. kennedy: what else do we have? >> this is tobacco liquor. it's not just co-what co-, it's a special tobacco it's a louisiana favorite. brand-new. was illegal. she is sniffing it again. i guess if they don't see it, it doesn't happen. it's like a tree falling in the forest. >> it smells so good. >> this is the last time kennedy was on television. this is deer antler vodka. and it smells good. go ahead, smell it. from siberia, they believe the antlers of a deer provide ever r very riltd, fertility and a good drink. how was it? how was the smell of it? look at this.

i would say that's evidence, kennedy, i'm sorry. kennedy: thanks for coming back. congratulations on another season of a great show. you are the best. now i can finally sample something. but i'll wait until after the show. should snowmen slaying be illegal if the defendant can

kennedy: when there is a brown audi parked in our parking spot, you will get the "topical storm." topic number one. a lot of people think christmastime sphils when you give presence, donate money and hug strangers and drink bourbon. but you forget it's the best time of year to prank people. but never under estimate power of plastic wrap. it's brillant because it's spectacle's stuck to it. even with fetching eye wear he wasn't prepared for it. any other suggestions, feel free

to email kennedyfbn@foxbusiness.com. thank you? advance. topic number two. old ladies across this great nation rejoice. you don't have to spend your days' -- now you can spends your days trying to master this. she has turned the aarp into aarg. what's even more impressive is when she does this with a 40-steel reserve. topic number 3. michael crowd hammer. no relation, is a clever photo shop whis who is putting the faces of our next head of state

along with the queen of england. when donald trump is put in queen livy's clothes -- her majesty queen elizabeth ii is a dignified, respectable woman. i'll never forget her dignified state visit to the white house. it must be all the yoga lattes. topic number 4. it looks like somebody hates out for frosty the snowman. he runs up to it.

stabbed just like in prison. a nice shiv to the solar plexus. sadly, snowman slaying has reached epidemic proportions in these united states. poor frosty. he will never be seen again. topic number five. speak of christmas. when you throw a red suit and a beard on anyone, they become santa claus. even a woman. especially a good dancer woman. you ready to see told st. knick roll around in vogue while rocking a bra?

there is no music here. so i'll just go. ding ding ding ding ding hey! ding ding ding ding hey. i'm so conflicted right now. i'm entertained and aroused. i want to sit on santa's lap and ask for stuff. but i'm worried santa would start gyrating and i'm worried that i would like it. athiests must be so lucky not to have to struggle with such emotions. thank you for watching the show tonight. you can follow me on twitter and instagram and facebook. email kennedyfbn@foxbusiness.com. tomorrow night the show will be tomorrow night the show will be at a special time, 9:00.tatatatn

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