he wrote your career turning success into fox. thanks kirk, it's good to be here at fox where you get to say what i want to say. glad i tried again. that's our show. see you next week. am balances doer john bolton and steve forbes are our guests. hope you can tune in. kennedy: this word president-elect trump is going to privatize the va. but after the high-profile scandals there, what is the best direction information our vets. we are days away from the ball drop on new year's eve. a counterterrorism expert on how to stay safe. do you ever wonder how much of your charity donations go to the people who need it? grab a bell, time to ring it. last night we learned debbie reynolds died within a day of her daughter carrie fisher.

it's incomprehensible the grief debbie reynolds suffered. it's too much for the brain to process. the grief is compounds by the dual sudden loss, but at least it gives as you chance to look back and take stock of their work. reynolds was at the losing ends of a love triangle. her husband eddie fisher left her for elizabeth taylor. carrie fisher wrote a biography of her life. >> remember my 17th birthday party when you lifted your skirt up in front of all those people? >> i did not lift my skirt up? >> the double bunch comes'.

we lost david bowie, george michael, leonard cone, glenn frey. the heat may be off for these virtuosos. we can dive into the moment their genius exploded in song and live there for a while. we also lost supreme court justice scalia. and nancy reagan. span janet reno is hosting an eternal dance party. as people come to terms with the loss of princes princess leia *e

unsinkable molly brown. >> you are damaged goods. but charlie, the year is young, and this room for one more. i'm glad you are here. you are my one more love bundle. i'm kennedy. he the list of larger than life figures to passed this year is staggering. muhammad ali. arnold palmer, john glenn, cuban dictator fidel castro. house it going down there, fidel? that's barely the tip of the iceberg. tonight wee have to discuss it with the party panel in mourning

and joy. it's comedian jimmy failla. and gavin mcinnes. kmele foster is here, the glorious host on the fifth column podcast. one of the most popular in the country. it's a worldwide phenomenon led by you and your great dress wearer and lapel pins. gavin, in your beautiful christmas card you touched on music and the attorneys music has in your life. i wanted to touch on music in the monologue. some of the musicians we lost, they leave a hole in the culture. tell me about your wife's reaction. >> my wife whom i love have much, continues stop crying when prince died. i value her i.q., but i worry

it's low. he had delirium, he had the power generation. there was purposing rain. but after that, did anyone listen to the new power generation? what were they? kennedy: he reportedly game a jehovah's witness and a republican. >> when these people cry for dead celebrities, you realize they are not your friend. scalia and breitbart and christopher mitchings was contributing. kennedy: their work creates an emotional connection. you can necessarily discount someone's politics you disagree

with. >> purposing rain is not something i listen to more often than not. it's probably a door. kennedy: you don't go deep, gavin. >> purposing rain is great. but after that .. kennedy: let's talk about fife dog. i feel like he's left off the list. >> especially when you have someone is that young. i think he was 47. that's tragic when someone passes who is that young. when people die and they are in their late 80s, early 90s, i think you won the whole deal, you were a rich, powerful celebrity. you lived a long life.

no one should be weeping. we were lucky to have you, you were lucky to have all that time. hopefully we all get there. kennedy: most notable death? >> i would say george kennedy. >> how does it change your life now that he's dead. >> we'll get into that. but great guy, second most notable death. hillary clinton. they have been propping her up, dragging her around. but to your point about these celebrity grief statement that all the people are issuing. i get they affected you and you loved their work. but i have so many people in my thread who are devastated by the death of carrie fisher. her life was so much better than

yours. she spent 40 years in spent house, you owe your dad rent. kennedy: she was in the force awakens. that was just last year. carrie fisher, celebrities are like good pets. they never do anything bad to you personally. carrie fisher never lived her life in resentment and she didn't owe me money. >> how mark hamill didn't get an oscar nomination for that performance in "the force awakens." kennedy: we all know most living celebrities don't want to be anywhere near the inauguration. but how much is obama helping with the transfer of power. yesterday donald trump claimed

on twitter that the current white house is putting up road blocks. but last night outside his mar-a-lago resort the president-elect said he talked to the president and everything was just fine. he called me. we had a very, very good talk. he was in hawaii. and it was a very, very nice call. and i actually thought we covered a lot of territory. a lot of good territory. kennedy: according to most reports things will likely get a little -- donald trump tweeted doing my best to disregard the most inflammatory statements and roadblocks. thought it was going to be a smooth transition. not. what's going on with these two. will they ever get along. >> apparently when they are talking in person. when he makes his public

statements on camera he's been a hell of a lot more polite. why we are paying attention to his twitter feed. it's clear the damn thing is routed from his subject conscious. we should probably stop paying attention to that. just ignore it. kennedy: i think everything is intentional. and i break from many skeptics when i say i delight in most of what donald trump does on twitter, especially when there are misspellings and grievances. >> that's libertarian i am. i want to talk to the president. i want to see his subject conscious. this guy has a thought occurrence, boom, i get it. kennedy: gavin's picture of a libertarian is similar to his exposition -- >> libertarianism is nerd anarchy.

you want transparency. kennedy: see-through lawless nerds. president-elect trump exploring ways to privatize the va. it's the largest health system in the united states and maybe in the world. there are claims veterans are dying while awaiting treatment for waiting for months just to see a primary care doctor. trump said fixing the va would be on the top of his list of things to do once he is in office. katherine, welcome back. is privatizing the va a good thing? >> i think privatization is a good thing.

one of the founders of "reason" invented the word, i'm all in on privatization. however, i'm also a strong believer that donald trump's version of privatization is not going to be the same as my krergs. i'm worried it looks more like cronyism to insurers or medical providers. i think people will miss that amidst the fuss over the word privatization and the idea which is a good one. maybe since the va schemes screwing up, maybe we should let someone else have a try taking care of our vets. kennedy: vets have had too much care from the current administration. many vets are pushing back against the idea of

privatization, they say they won't get adequate treatment for traumatic brain injury and post traumatic stress disorder. is the va the only place to treat them? >> there are so many professions with specific pathologies associated with them where we don't say we have to build a parallel health system to take care of those problems. there will be doctors, some of them currently working for the va who could go into private practice and provide the same care as a higher level. kennedy: i would like to see veterans have more choice in this country. as you point out, when privatization is done right, you have better care. isn't that what we want? >> that's exactly what we want. this idea that we are going around saying for our veterans we want the best care and then

saying the way to get that is to not let them choose what doctor they go to, not let them choose what hospital they go to, and not let them make their own decisions as if they are children. that seems insulting to me. >> it is shutly. i think one of the main thrusts of donald trump's campaign was taking care of the veterans. we'll see if he can do that. it depend on how the department is led. who leads it, and if maybe we see some groundbreaking privatization that can spread to other departments, other agencies, and you know, dare i say, shrink the size of the federal government, is that possible? >> donald trump didn't run as anything remotely resembling a libertarian or small government republican. the transition team has had a lot of people on it talking the talk about privatization. again i want to be clear, i'm

pretty sure he's going to screw it up. but at least it's on the table, i do like that. and i think the va is a good test case it's a government agency doing a terrible job right now. >> i hope to hell it succeeds because lord knows it has failed so far. coming up, the united states has bent world's police force for decade. but now it's the russians keeping peace in syria. is america's scature declining? and who is to blame? what public figure do americans admire most?

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kennedy: need any more proof the united states has last major stature on the world stage? the mighty have fallen. date was the president of russia. vladimir putin and president obama announced there is a ceasefire deal in syria and we are not part of it. the most high profile bloodbath in the world going on, especially in aleppo. putin got syrian regime and rebels to lay down their weapons. more than half a million people

have reportedly died. meanwhile, president obama on vacation in hawaii eating shaved ice and jumping around in the waves in his mom shorts. here with more is the host of the dark secret place on kfi radio in los angeles. and a iraq, bosnia and kuwait war veterans. why don't you light the dark path for us and talk about the balkanization of syria, you got different spheres of influence engaged in the ceasefire. we are not. though we have our own sphere over there. what is going on? >> it turns out leading from behind creates a vacuum, and

vladimir putin or china will fill the vacuum and you are not there for the vacuuming. this is a ceasefire that will stick. when the west negotiates a ceasefire it sticks. with vladimir putin the stick is i'll bomb you if you break the ceasefire. this is a de facto, sit in place and let's negotiate the final borders. the battle of aleppo was the final battle in syria. isis is an aftereffect. they are losing territory by the day. syria may not when the dust settles. it may not look like the map we had five years ago. but the entity in syria will remain in power regardless, you recall secretary of state hillary clinton and president obama said assad must go five years ago.

well, he's not going anywhere. putin guarantees it. and the united states was not at the table. this key nato ally called turkey turns out to be nothing more than a putin mole in nato. erdogan is playing on putin's side now. this is a shocking turn of events in 8 years. >> we watched under the obama administration web's turning into a fascist. >> he became a middleman because his son is the middleman for isis oil. we have been unwilling to get our hands dirty in leading from behind. kennedy: if we eradicate isis in syria, what's to keep al qaeda from moving in and taking up that place in what appears to be a vacuum in much of the country? >> theoretically the same thing

that kept them out before, that is the syrian government keeping control and getting the loyalty of the sunnis who remain. they have to negotiate separate don't kill me, negotiations. al qaeda doesn't have a hope and probably assad will tell these guys, if you want to reearn your citizenship in syria you turn your guns around and kick isis in the bootie. kennedy: let's turn to russia and the sanctions the president outlined today. he said all americans should be alarmed by russia's actions. he talked about 9 interest and individuals that will be sanctioned and singled out for punishment. russians compounds shut down in maryland and new york. what do you make of this.

did any of it make a difference? >> it will. the gru operates not so clandestinely in north america, as well as their hackers in the cozy bear lazy bear groups in russia. it's a shot across their bow that we are naming names. what we need to do is release the power points of how rich putin is. as i told you before, months ago here on "kennedy." we need people at l.a.x. and jfk turning pregnant russian women around, putting them back on the plane and don't let them have theirr their 14th amendment babies in this country. they do this. only the wealthy do it. putin's buddies, putins cronies, they send their daughters and wives to los angeles to have their babies. we should stop that immediately

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kennedy: new year's eve is almost upon us. i'll be celebrating on the fox news network with jesse watters. at t crossroads of the world. times square, the nypd and the feds taking extra precautions this year. there will and lot more of those blocker trucks around the perimeter of the party. we are told they are putting trucks in place to prevent an attack like we saw in berlin and earlier in nice when a suspected terrorist drove a truck into a crowded christmas market in berlin. joining me, mike green, also the author of a book on how to survive in new york city.

we have got the big sand and salt trucks. and you have got 6,000 officers in times square in and around times square. that seems like a lot of the security. is it a tough place to keep safe? >> it's not because nypd mass vol. 35,000 officers, i think, right now. so it's a daunting task, but the nypd, they are number one in the industry in counter terrorism. kennedy: i agree, you see a lot of counterterrorism in nypd. they are tasked with an awful lot. what are they look for particularly on new year's eve? >> in general, things out of the ordinary. if you see something, say something. officers do that as well. they look for the abnormal things such as objects,

backpacks, packages sitting around. suspicious activity. people looking around. new year's eve, tourists, people look at each other. you look for somebody who is not doing that. you might be just look at people, having a more stern and less festive look on their face. kennedy: they say what's going on? see if they can engage you. the nypd is far superior to the tsa. you were an nypd officer on 9/11 and in 1993 at the world center attack, the first one. so you have seen terror up close and personal. >> yes, i was fortunate or unfortunateattacks. in 1993 i was off duty. on 9/11 i was working a day shift. i lost a few partners to

9/11-related cancers since then. i have full first-hand insight and knowledge of the aftermath of these attacks. kennedy: is new york city safe this year? >> 100% yes. kennedy: we don't have to worry about a terrorist attack? >> no, i would be more worried about a pick pocket. kennedy: or a drunk person vomiting on your good boots? mike green, thanks so much. stay safe out there. tell your friends to do the same. the party panel returns to discuss gweneth paltrow. she thinks she is making a she thinks she is making a positive contribution to society

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kennedy: gallup con ducts an annual most admired people in america poll to swell the he goes of one lucky man or woman. barack obama topped the list as the most admired man.

the most admired woman, despite losing the presidential election and being repeatedly investigated by the f.b.i., hillary clinton went for a record 21st time, 15 years in a row. how much stock should we be putting into these polls and why didn't gavin and i make the list? the party panel is back. who answers the you are advise? >> divorces. they have some time on their hands and they are declaring revenge on society. kennedy: like hillary clinton almost -- almost declared revenge on her husband.

michelle obama third. angela merge was fourth and oprah -- >> is this global? americans like and lap merck. for ruining germany? the president wins almost every year. these are the same people who are shocked when the harlem globe trotters win. >> the washington generals aren't that goods. kennedy: the president-elect of the united states single handedly changed the course of time. will president obama win next year? >> not even close. he's irrelevant now. kennedy: oprah came in fifth. there is only one i.p. address on that whole poll. kennedy: why do they admire hillary so much?

>> it's important to know these polls are total nonsense. kennedy: don't they have high name recognition? >> pretty much everyone else on the list is in single digits. >> wouldn't you love to have a billion dollars? >> i don't know i would strayed places with steadman because i love my wife. she is remarkable. kennedy: could you love two wife. >> if she suggested it then perhaps i could. >> what if she suggested it via saxophone? kennedy: there is no such thing. it's like being an off-duty cop. everyone knows that. where do you turn when your marriage is over unlike neil and tracy.

dry your tears on the humble shoulders of gweneth paltrow. she finalized her uncoupling with cold play. but now she says she feels she is a role model for the culture of divorce. spouting chris and her contributed something positive to victims of failed marriages and the divorce blues is best cured by overwhelming pretentiousness. gweneth is at the top of her own most admired people list. she believes that she is a cultural savior in many, many respects. >> good work, gwen. we are in a culture in america where failure is reward. divorce is failure. why is it failure? because it's worse for the kids. everyone who talks about divorce

says i can go shopping more and i can drink whiskey more. what about the kids? you just screwed over your children. they are now at a disadvantage. i know what happens, and i'm not going to vilify people who succumb to it in the sense fit was inevitable. but it's a bad thing. it's a failure. stop rewarding failure. kennedy: you could say anyone who had been through a negative divorce. my parents' divorce wasn't exactly pretty. but it's nice to see people get along and still hang out with their kid. >> but it's still a failure. >> but she is out of her mind. start an unbearable blog that becomes a nude water boarding at guantanamo bay? that's how they get confessions now. kennedy: no one from isis dares

to step foot in this country. >> we are the first divorced couple who broke up and are still cool with each other. the clintons have been doing it for 30 years. it's not new. >> everyone can be the michael jordan of something. this is good for her. she is michael jordan on the wizards of divorce. which is winning. >> if you are anything, would you rather be the charlie sheen of aides? -- of aids? >> do you want people to stay in bad marriages? >> yeah. fix it. >> if you are in a boat that's going awry, you can still save it, just kill robert de niro.

kennedy: what if your marriage goes below 50 miles an hour. >> i'm writing down all the suggestions. >> i'm with four married people, that's rare. kennedy:at the seminar this summer we'll be 8 married people. thank you for making this extraordinary. all the collective visits you made to the show, you made it so much better. you get a call from a charity and you donate because you are a sucker. but how much of your money goes to the people who need it. the numbers may may yo jackie: as an 18 year old, i let my mistakes kind of take over my life. i was point-five credits away from completing high school

and i didn't do it. angela: i got pregnant and i was the main one working so, i did what i had to do to survive. jocelyn: sentía que la escuela no era para mí. karim: most of my family they never graduated high school or even let alone go to college so i'm trying to break that barrier. jackie: my family never stopped pushing for me to be better because they knew what i could become and who i could become as a person. karim: everyday after work i went straight to school, studied hard, and it paid off. jocelyn: sentía como que si quiero cambiar el mundo tengo que cambiara mi primero. group: surprise! surprise! surprise! angela: i could not have gotten my diploma without my family. jocelyn: mi consejera, ella fue lo máximo para mí porque me ayudó mucho con todo. jackie: i've been given an opportunity and i'm just thankful for it.

angela: yeah it's hard, but keep on going and keep on trying. karim: the high school diploma has just added to the confidence and now i feel unstoppable. narrator: find free adult education classes near you at finishyourdiploma.org.

kennedy: holiday season is the time for giving. and you are such a giver. december is one of the busiest months for charities to raise money. do you wonder how many of your donation dollars get to those you are trying to help? if you don't, you should. it might not be a lot and it's less than you think. william lajeunesse joins me from glorious los angeles with a breakdown. hi, william.

reporter: we know you are opinionated. but are you charitable. how much money do you think when you give it goes personally to the charity. kennedy: personally, $5 million. i like to think that i give to good charities like the leukemia lymphoma society. i would like to say it's 80%. >> reporter: it' not. the average is 51%. much less more some, and more for others. give when you are ready and don't give when the phone rings. this empty arizona office is typical of boiler rooms around the country where telemarketers raise money for charities that sometimes get little or nothing of what you give. we examined the california registry of charitable trusts. a listing of many national

campaigns in hundreds of cases charities raised thousands but got little back, and some actually lost money. two campaign with the a coveted house for at-risk youth. in 2015 the environmental defense fund ran seven campaigns. two made nothing. four lost money, costing the non-profit thousands. 47% of charities took homeless than 20 cents on the dollar and 27% lost money all together. over the last three years only 22% of all charities met the 21% standard. so the environmental defense fund says the campaigns we referenced were designed to attract new supporters, not

raise funds. kennedy: that's such a bummer. you want your money to go to a good place. i didn't realize such a huge percentage was going to outside side fundraisers. that's what a charity is supposed to do is raise money for the causes. what are a few good charities where people's money will do the most good work. >> you can go to charity watch, charity navigator. but don't give to charities you don't know about. don't be fooled by familiar names. don't give cash or a credit card. only a check. don't give over the phone, if give to somebody you know and preferably to the charity itself, not a telemarketer. happy new year to you, my friends. are these french daredevils

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kennedy: before you pay a shaman to fewerrify your home with sage, watch this racist white lady try and steal a basketball

in a gary coleman look-alike contest winner. what prevails, colonialism or justice. watch. megsy had a different strategy. she said her ankles hurt after the spill. topic number two. i know two things about young children. one, they are very enthusiastic about trampolines and they are made of rubber. those qualities came in handy for this 4ear-old girl who jumped on a trampoline covered

in a sheet of slippery ice. kennedy: i slipped a disk doing something similar on my honeymoon except it wasn't ice, it was olive oil. no secret when you have put on a zoot suit, a riot will come your way. what happens when you put on a wing suit? take a look. what are they doing? it's terrifying these are two french athletes. they are 13,000 feet high, allegedly falling at 100 miles an hour. may seem like a 90s commercial for extreme doer are you toes. but it was just preparation for

the most daring stunts to be captured on camera. i'm just warning you. if you suffer from motion sickness are pregnant or have stools, turn your back on the tv at this moment. terrifying. i know. thank god your colon tensed up at the right moment. you are about to meet 88-year-old don briggs playing the game speak out it's designed make it difficult top enunciate. the competition can sometimes bring out the worst in people. it can bring out jealousy, anger and of course teeth.

this might seem a little embarrassing. but i wonder if anything is going to fall off during the contest. topic number 5. 2016 is almost over. before i sip champagne with jesse watters on the fox news channel, this is viewer mail. mark asks, are you the kennedy from mtv of years past. graight and irritating? i love you. grating like cheese and irritating like cheese and a lactose intolerant colon. benny wrote, i'm shocked, kennedy, i always thought were a tree hugger.

>> yes, i hug the tree of freedom. let me see your trunk. victor tweets, the glasses ruin the show. victor, it's not the glasses, it's my lack of passion and my sued so knowledge. how much coffee do you drink? i don't grow tea. carolyn sends us off with you have need to shut up. some of your views stink. thank you so as much for watching the show it's our last one of the year. please follow me on twitter and instagram at kennedyfbn. and email me at kennedyfbn@foxbusiness.com.

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