♪ ♪ kennedy: tonight, president-elect donald trump on the offensive just days before taking office, but are the latest twitter battles helping his cause or hurting him pretty9ically? the party panel is here. plus, if the president clinton foundation is such a force for good in the world, why are the clintons shutting down one of its most important charities? and will president obama crank up the surveillance state just before he leafs office? -- leaves office? grab a snorkel, it's time to dive in. this week the president-elect becomes president. and it's donald versus goliath as the incoming commander takes on three institutions at once, the press, the intelligence

community and the embodiment of the civil rights movement, georgia representative john lewis. after last week's press conference that was more explosive than a dozen bowls of colon blow, democrats are worried he will shut down outlets to or those he hates. >> the only thing that's been discussed is whether or not the initial press conferences are going to be in that small press room. kennedy: yeah, reporters like to wander in and out of the white house offices like luigi, haggling for gossip and scoops. it's protocol, it's tradition. it's kind of annoying. but how long can the incoming administration ask these adolescent existential questions, but why do we even have a press, man? before the horde turns on them completely?

why don't we ask the cia head who's out of the job engaging the president-elect on intelligence and russia. an irked mr. trump tweeted about the russian dossier saying, quote: intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to leak into the public. one last shot at me, are we living in nazi germany? he said leak. this didn't sit well with brennan who responded -- >> what i do find outrageous is equating an intelligence community with nazi germany. i do take umbrage at that, and there is no basis for mr. trump to point fingers at the intelligence community for leaking information that was already available publicly. kennedy: but no one likes that. it is a little strange though that when the dust-up started, senate minority leader chuck schumer warned peotus about nasty retribution. >> you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways

from sunday at getting back at you. kennedy: so schumer knows the secretive intel p apparatus can be used as a punitive political tool? unacceptable. now, of course, the donald wasn't done and reacted coarsely after civil rights leader, georgia representative john lieu wirks said this about his presidency -- >> i don't see this president-elect as a legitimate president. kennedy: and mr. trump tweeted this: congressman john lewis should spend more time fixing and helping his district which is in horrible shape and falling apart. not to mention crime infested. rather than falsely complaining about the election results, sad. lewis and 28 other democrats are now boycotting the inauguration just as many did for the swearing-in of our 43rd president back in 2001, including lewis. so you people are representatives, now go represent your constituents and stop throwing a fit because you got the wrong flavored jell-o. you ready to rock? good.

i'm kennedy. ♪ kennedy: donald trump is floating the idea that cia director john brennan leaked damaging material about him to russia or about russia on him, so are we in for an intelligence community versus trump showdown? let's bring in tonight's fireproof party panel, they are so hot, including democratic strategist and political reporter for the young turks, gavin mcginnis is also here, he's also a talking mag contributor, and mat welch, reason magazine editor at large. saying hi to everyone, especially you. hi, friends. >> hi. >> hello. kennedy: so let's kick this pinata a little bit. you've got a big problem because apparently you've got the intelligence community, whatever that's supposed to mean, whatever that's supposed to encompass. angry and in an active feud with

the incoming president. how problematic is this? >> i think it's especially problematic for donald trump because any good president knows that they need the intelligence community so they can get intelligence on other countries to set up proxy wars. so any good dictator -- [laughter] don't piss them off. you need this information. really it's a problem. he's not taking this seriously. i don't know where it goes from here because there's really no checks on donald trump. it doesn't mean he's just dismantling our government step by step -- kennedy: i think there are more checks on the president than there are on the cia certainly. >> absolutely. and this is -- kennedy:ing which makes the whole thing kind of weird. >> kind of weird and fascinating. there was so many weird news some of which you referenced at the top of the show that we're not really fully absorbed in the fact that the incoming president is in open warfare with the head of the cia. that just has never happened. the whole intelligence community has operated without oversight, essentially, since world war ii. kennedy: yeah. >> and they've just metastasized since then like crazy.

we don't know what their budget is. we don't have any sense of what is restraining them, and so you have a president-elect who is taking them on by calling them nazis on day one. we're going to find out whether there is such a thing as a deep fate. are there actors who are, like, really in charge of things? we're going to find that out. kennedy: yeah. are we going to bring the conspiracy theories to the surface and finally see what the government is really made of? i think it's interesting because the understanding for every other president who's ever ascended to the office is, all right, these guys really run stuff, and they're just going to tell me what to do as a figurehead, and i don't think donald trump really accepts that format. >> can you imagine russia being like this? can you imagine putin being in a fight with the kgb? it's unimaginable. >> he is, he is the kgb. [laughter] kennedy: it'd be like if mike baker were president. [laughter] >> liberals need to imagine obama did it. once they do that, they can see the merit with moves like this. he's saying i'm not beholden to

a company that they don't even know what they're doing. there's so much secrecy with the cia that half of them think the other guy is a spy. i don't trust them. i don't think they trust themselves. kennedy: i've seen mr. and mrs. smith. i know how these things end, on private planes when you're yelling at your 17 children on your way to the divorce lawyer. >> that's not the cia. kennedy: that's what it's all about. talk about hot pots of coffee. donald trump's honeymoon with the press lasted just three seconds, and it's going to get so much worse. the president-elect hinting he might boot reporters out of the west wing. reince priebus says if the press corpses gets evicted, it will only be to find a larger space to accommodate even more media, but critics say they will do it to better control what the public hears about his administration. this is not unique to an administration. it's just happening sooner than it usually does. and presidents usually, like, grit their and smile like i love the press.

these guys are great. [laughter] meanwhile, president obama was awful with the press. hillary clinton actively despised them and refused to have a press conference for over 200 days. so is this really that surprising? >> it's not surprising. i think what's surprising is the tone in which donald trump is so aggressive that he's feuding with them openly. he's calling cnn and buzzfeed fake news at press conferences. but i think the press should fight black [bleep] kennedy: wow, oh, my gosh. >> invite every enemy of donald trump to show up every single day in front of the white house until he does press conferences. kennedy: good press conferences. he loves the press, he needs the press. and people really upset that he shut down jim acosta from are cnn because members of the traditional media feel like it's not the president's job to pick and choose the nice people who ask him acceptable questions. i feel like obama has always done that, and then he filibusters and gives a six minute answer to one that would really require 20 seconds.

>> yeah. and you'll notice, by the way, if you see the press corps, you see jake tapper and chuck todd are in the front row. that's what this beef is really about. he never said he's not going to have press conferences, he said it's no longer about the aristocrats in the front row. i'm bringing in bloggers, talk show guys, and ono to one really knows this, the white house sucks. [laughter] every room is tine think and rickety. that room fits 49 people. he said i'm going to move it to a bigger -- again, pretend obama does it. obama expands room for press, allows more people to get more information. kennedy: yeah, but he had, you know, three dozen press organizations file a claim against his administration because the obama administration budget exactly -- wasn't exactly being transparent. >> anybody with a name like james risen or rosen, they just hate obama's record. he went in as the most transparent administration in history and just absolutely wasn't. he's been terrible about that. some of this hyperventilating

makes you want to say, okay, i'm glad you showed up for work eight years later. trump's going to win every public relations fight if it's all about, like, access to the white house press room. voters certainly don't care. they want porters to take it in the very end -- kennedy: and they also want reporters who look, talk and speak like them surveying the landscape. >> good luck with that. [laughter] kennedy: yeah. i love twitter, i love that he's on twitter, but it can't be the only source, because that can also be a tool of propaganda. >> right. >> what are they going to do? all these bureaucracies are going to try to stop whatever trump is doing because they're appalled by his actions. kennedy: oh! he's such a boob. >> this is going to be the biggest kind of anti-administration press corpses we've seen since richard nixon. kennedy: well, fans of chaos have yet to be disappointed. well, thank you very much. in the meantime, president obama last night gave yet another

long-winded farewell interview, this time it was "60 minutes" or 600 minutes, it felt like. he had a lot to say about how great he thinks his presidency was, but he also chatted about how partisanship is poisoning washington. so what should we do about israel? he even had a warning for his successor. >> the one thing i've said to him directly and i would advise my republican friends in congress and supporters around the country is just make sure that as we go forward certain norms, certain institutional traditions don't get eroded because there's a reason they're in place. kennedy: he also said that nobody should underestimate donald trump and that he must repair his relationships with the intelligence community stat. well, guess who's here and very intelligent? brian kilmeade, host of "fox & friends," he's also got a nationally syndicated radio show

that is award winning and alluring. >> and has you on it, which is smart. kennedy: which i absolutely adore every moment of it with you. what did you make of the president's interview? >> number one, he's so much cooler than i'll ever be, and he has a great family. and i appreciate the fact that he does say very pro-american things after eight years. i'm being totally sincere in that. however, he's just got a different take of his legacy -- kennedy: yeah. >> i think, ultimately, we're going to get a chance to get a legitimate look at it, because for the most part, 80% of the media's been on his side. even if you read new york times, reading has been great for obama, it gave him a balance. do you know george bush read like a book a week -- kennedy: you would have no idea. >> they wouldn't salute him for reading. that's what you do for third graders. kennedy: even though the first lady, laura bush, 43's esteemed wife -- >> she was pro-reading, as you are. kennedy: big fan. >> and i'd like to read to you -- [laughter]

but that's a whole other segment. on this in particular, the fact that he said don't underestimate donald trump, i think, is interesting. the fact that he should repair his relationship with the intelligence community is an interesting thing. that might be a positive. however, do you remember how he started his administration? kennedy: yeah. all he did was bad mouth george w. bush for six years. >> enhanced interrogation, we might bring these guys to justice, these people that did this, really, that ultimately produced bin laden, his location, ultimately produced information for all these others -- kennedy: you love waterboarding. >> well, i'm pro enhanced interrogation. ken ken even the oatmeal? >> i think oatmeal without some kind of cinnamon should be torture. i'm not really sure, what do you mean by taste? kennedy: i'll show you later. >> enhanced interrogation led to the information that kept us safe, and he thought he'd take

on that right away, and i thought, wait a second, you're in the middle of a war on terror, and you're looking to take down the cia/fbi -- kennedy: but now he's telling donald trump he he needs to repair his relationship with the swell community when he was equally critical of them -- >> unless his attorney general was going rogue without telling him because i don't know if he he had cable at his office. we actually covered that. [laughter] one thing i also give president obama credit for, he's gone out of his way not to criticize donald trump directly. unless he's pulling the the strings behind the scenes, which could be happening, i'm not sure, for the most part -- kennedy: you mean since the election. because before the election -- >> couldn't have been worse. kennedy: -- he was very, very vocal with his criticism. didn't do him any good. >> but he said this guy's a joke, blah, blah, blah -- kennedy: then he made the joke on jimmy kimmel about, well, at least i will be president. [laughter] >> right. turns out he's wrong. in 2011 when he got the ultimate laugh, he thought he had the

final laugh, he laid the trap ask set the tone for president, now president-elect trump to become president trump. because he ticked him off to the degree where he was going to use all his attributes to become president. kennedy: next thing we know, we're in the ritz carlton -- >> yes. yes. kennedy: brian kill -- kill immediate, thanks very much. kennedy: donald trump wants to replace obamacare with a new plan that gives everyone health care. and bill and hillary shutting down a wing of their foundation, almost like it's not as important since hillary lost the election. party panel returns to discuss. stay with me. ♪ ♪ i use what's already inside me to reach my goals. so i liked when my doctor told me that i may reach my blood sugar and a1c goals

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6 p.m. eastern, 3 in the west. so insurance for everybody, sure sounds a lot like single-payer insurance. >> yeah, you know, they told me i had two choices of topics, there this or doing a rubik's cube blindfolded. [laughter] let me try this one. i think another thing that president-lex -- elect donald trump said was he doesn't care about the stock prices of drug companies. so maybe we're going to a place where, hey, we're going to have some form of solution for this that is going to cap, cajole, push, edge, nudge, browbeat the private sector into making less money. kennedy: yeah. that's not good, ultimate hi, not only for people who work for those drug companies, but it's bad for research. and, you know, the if you don't have every institution, every organization that is subjected to the whims of the free market, then you've got some sort of government force and coercion, and this president-elect has said that he's going to

negotiate with drug manufacturers that supply drugs to medicaid and medicare, which is pretty much every drug manufacturer. >> right. and that, by the way, has not happened in the past because of republicans. in fact, tom price voted against such a thought. kennedy: yeah. >> you know, i think would-be president trump has, to a degree, a fiduciary responsibility with taxpayer money. kennedy: yeah. >> so in that role, i see where he's coming from. there's a free market role and there's also the notion that you bring up, the realistic, honest to god notion of, hey, if drug companies can't make money off of drugs, then they won't create these drugs in the first place. kennedy: yeah. >> and there's got to be an elegant solution. i don't know what they are. i wish i knew what all the pieces of this puzzle were -- kennedy: so it's never more government. the solution is alwaysless government. with we know that, right. kennedy: it's scale back the fda, but what worries me is why do we have to pay for everybody to have insurance? i understand that the poorest people, the oldest people, the

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kennedy: yeah, run by narcissists. >> there should be legislation against usury, because those cross the line. but if they go through five phases of fda approval, they d $2 billi, they need some sort of return on investment. kennedy: or cut down the amount of time -- >> how about that, yeah. kennedy: -- to get good drugs to market. >> right. there's no doubt that needs to be adjusted. there's no doubt whatsoever. kennedy: when you and i are emperor and 'em press of the universe -- >> i can't wait. when's our turn coming? kennedy: 20/20 vision. we've both got be it. charles payne, thank you so much. >> see you later. kennedy: donald trump is wrangling a big, powerful country, and it's not russia. so who is in trump's crosshairs? ambassador john bolton talks to me about the president-elect's foreign policy challenges. that's next. ♪ ♪ ot, i sure had a lot to think about. what about the people i care about? ...including this little girl. and what if this happened again?

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♪ ♪ kennedy: welcome back. president-elect donald trump wants a fight with china, it appears he may very well get it. in an interview with our corporate cousins at "the wall street journal," the president-elect said everything is negotiable with china, even with its policy on taiwan. the chinese government wasn't too thrilled warning that tie won -- taiwan is not negotiable, and go of their -- two of their state-run newspapers warned him that he is playing with fire.

the question now, are our ties with taiwan worth the economic fallout of a fight with china? or should trump stand up to the chinese government? joining me now, it's john bolton, former ambassador to the u.n. and a fox news contributor. welcome back, ambassador. >> glad to be with you. kennedy: so let's talk about this one china policy. that's all anyone keeps talking about, the one china policy. and what i want to know is who set the policy, and was it those communist bullies? >> well, there's a lot of dispute about what the one china policy is. and this is a favorite chinese bargaining tactic. they create a slogan, kind of benign sounding, they get the unwary foreigner to agree to it, and then they reinterpret it. one china means one thing to the people in beijing, and it has always meant something else to the united states. kennedy: what does it mean to us? >> it means that, ultimately, we acknowledge that in the shanghai communique of 1972 that all chinese on both sides of the

taiwan strait believe there is only one china, and taiwan is a part of it. the united states acknowledges it and takes note of it. we didn't agree to it, and we particularly didn't agree that one china means beijing controls. kennedy: all right. let's talk a little bit about what china has said in one of these editorials that i referencessed this china daily, if trump is determined to use this gambit on taking office a period of fierce, damaging interactions will be unavoidable, and beijing will have no choice but to take off the gloves. what does it mean for china to take off the gloves? >> well, as opposed to what they're doing now in the south and east china seas? i understand at many levels of our government and in the top circles of american corporate life people would listen to those words and say, okay, time for the united states to surrender, because obviously we can't stand up to the chinese. the fact is every time they try this bluster and intimidation and we back down, they win at no cost to them. frankly, i would make taiwan an

element in the overall relationship. i would be willing to change the 1972 shanghai communique because if we don't put our issues on the table with china, if in effect we don't play the taiwan card, their bargaining leverage simply increases to our debt criminate. kennedy: yeah. so, you know, there's been, obviously, a lot of talk about russia and china, and you have some mixed points of view within the trump administration. and we saw that particularly with secretary of state nominee rex tillerson. what do you think is more dangerous and problematic for the u.s., russia or china right now as both nations stand? >> well, i think right now you'd have to say russia because of its efforts to increase its nuance in the middle east and the pressure it's putting on ian and central europe, the fact it has a much more extensive and well developed nuclear capability, its missile forces, its capability to hit the united states.

but, obviously, china's a much bigger country, and the relationship between china and the united states is the biggest issue this century for the united states internationally. kennedy: all right. and, obviously, our economies are inextricably linked and that's a huge factor. do you ever see a hot war with china? >> well, we certainly hope not, nobody wants that. the question is whether they understand already limits to what they can do because if you simply be believe that intertwined economies means they win, then that outcome is not to our advantage. they have as much at stake economically as we do, but when they make territorial claims in the south china sea, when they create islands on which they build military bases, when theye identification zone in the east china sea, when they seize equipment going from singapore to taiwan, when they engage in mercantilist policies in violation of their own international commitments, somebody needs to stand up to them. the united states hasn't done that for eight years.

kennedy: yeah. well, i know two things, there are always limits, and there is always another jennifer aniston rom-com on the horizon. >> if you say so. kennedy: indeed. [laughter] all right, coming up, this was a time when college kids professed it when they felt threatened by politicians, so what are our precious snowflakes planning to do on inauguration day? retreat to their safe spaces, of course. no microaggressions, please. good lord. coming up next.

kennedy: welcome back.

♪ ♪ kennedy: yeah. welcome back. are you terrified of the upcoming inauguration? do you need a safe space to hide away from an event that's going to happen whether you watch it or not? yeah. well, there's real good news for you at universities across the country because some will reportedly be holding alternate

events to distract from the inauguration of one donald trump on friday. one such event is the people's inauguration. is that happening in beijing? sure sounds like it. no. it's at the university of connecticut where students can share poems, songs and personal stories. here to discuss what poems they've picked out, it's the party panel. gavin, what would you rather be doing than listening to u-conn students sing songs and read poems about how much they dislike donald trump? >> oh, that's a great question. i don't know if you've ever worn razor wire as a wig, but your threshold of pain, it keeps getting more and more painful as the gravity sinks in and it gets more infected, so i would say that would be at the top of my list, yeah. kennedy: that sounds super sexy. well, kno me key says there really are people who have something to worry about -- >> including republicans who fear that their party has been taken over by this orange, you

know, putin figure. no, i think that a lot of people are scared, especially undocumented people, i hate to take a serious tone here, but the -- >> you should be scared. >> what are you going to ship them back to their birth companies? >> illegal aliens are scared? good, that's the plan. >> you came here at six months old, don't speak spanish, don't know -- >> i'd go, hey, parents, why'd you commit a crime and put me in jeopardy? what have you done? >> or why did they flee poverty -- >> these poor drug dealers' kids. their children have nowhere to go, it's so mean to follow the law. >> the three drug dealers and 60 million people that could possibly be at risk of -- >> oh, good, so you admit there's 60 million illegals. >> there could be. i'm just making up numbers. i think the number is somewhere around eight million. >> eight? [laughter] kennedy: mat, i would like you to break the toy because gavin and nomeki cannot agree on this issue, and you work for will re.

>> i wish any of them would mix it with a history lecture which -- kennedy: yeah. >> what do we think of politics right now. do we have a history department sneer who does this person remind us here? is he like happy o' daniel? he was a radio broadcaster and a serial entrepreneur -- >> did he make moon shine? >> he might have, seriously, jest key walker wrote a great piece about this. there are characters in american history who are like this. so let's talk about that. it's not going to be about that, it's going to be an emotive fest, and i guess that's what colleges are for. kennedy: hillary clinton insisted throughout her campaign that the clinton foundation is a charity and this no way connected to wheeling and dealing political favors. critics said the foundation was a legal way for high rollers to buy influence with the then-secretary of state and possible to future president. well, the foundation is shutting down one wing of itself, the clinton global initiative,

because donations have plummeted if in the wake of hillary's defeat. almost like the donors have quit caring now that their money only provides access to a grandma who likes to hike in the woods of rhode island. gavin, i will start with you. isn't this just proof the whole thing was pay for play the entire time? >> yeah. what's the matter with that? i donated to the wounded warrior project under the impression that they would stop the war or win it. and then i talked to a lot of these vets, and they go, what's going on? there's still a war over there, and i stopped donating right away because i was donating for political favors. kennedy: oh. then you weren't able to curry any -- >> if the vets are not going to make changes with that money, then they don't deserve the money. kennedy: well, i don't know that -- >> that's the way it works. [laughter] kennedy: wounded warrior project, but that's exactly what they were doing. i mean, they were culling favors, and the only political chip they had was her future presidency which didn't materialize, and now the

foundation is no good. >> i totally agree with you on this, and i'll get to that in a second. the reality is they were going to shut down the initiative well before she -- assuming that she would win the presidency. and now -- kennedy: why shut it down? there's no conflict of interest. >> they were going to shut it down was all those people thought they were going to go work for the administration, and now it's already been shut down. they've got to shut it down. the reality is that they, while there was some good work, it wasn't enough good work, and they kept calling it incrementalism, but it was just institutionalism. no good work happens when you become a bloated institution that just fundraises. kennedy: that's like me -- [inaudible] five guys, bloating -- >> you said 4:30 today, right? [laughter] >> this is like the clintons are perfect at legalized grossness, and this is a perfect example of that. [laughter] this is the genteel way of being corrupt. kennedy: legitimate corruption.

>> everybody knows who what's going on here. you've got a roll aring davos, and you can just have the money yourself and any leader of -- kennedy: oh, rolling davos is so appropriate, and it's so -- and it makes you pucker in all the wrong places. party panel, thank you so much. a great night. hopefully, you had fun too. coming up, the obama administration is beefing up the nsa, just giving it surveillance roids right before donald trump takes office. buck sexton tells -- joins me to tell us what we need to know about our privacy. what privacy? exactly. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ kennedy: the obama administration just injected new steroids into u.s. intention agencies granting departments new access to raw surveillance data gathered by the nsa. now, in the past the nsa used to filter out private information, but now a whole lott more federal eyeballs will have access to our private information. yea, liberty. buck sexton is here, former cia

officer. welcome back. this scares me. >> i also like being introduced with yea liberty, but usually with more enthusiasm -- kennedy: you you are a championf liberty. >> i am. kennedy: you've seen the apparatus, you've felt the tentacles of the beast from the inside out. >> with i used to read these nsa reports. this is the concerning the moment it crosses over to the law enforcement side of things. there are the libertarians among us who recognize this whole surveillance dragnet as really just the 21st century general warrants, the idea that you can get all this information and use algorithms and it's still okay, this is a more specific part of that discussion with the sharing of raw collection from technical sources, technical collection with what could be law enforcement agencies that then engage in parallel construction meaning that once you know who the guy is who's bringing the huge bales of marijuana into the country, even the if you don't use that information to

prosecute him, it's a lot easier to figure out, okay, this is the person for me to find -- kennedy: he's been communicating with people in this country who haven't necessarily committed crimes, then all of a sudden all of their information is now available to a multitude of other agencies. and it's not necessarily new surveillance. that's how they're shielding themselves. their not doing any new spying, they're just taking a lot more information and sharing it with a lot more people. >> right. and, again, when that information sharing makes its way into the hands of people that can criminally prosecute you, this is a huge distinction that also brings up the snowden discussion. i hear a lot of people say snowden's a hero. a lot of the stuff he shared about what happens overseas has nothing to do with constitutional issues, has nothing to do with transparency. that was just an enormous act of treason. you can put that aside for now, but when you look at what the u.s. is doing and this new sharing of information, the fact that fbi eyes will be on this stuff, the notion of a chinese wall between the guys in the fbi

or who are just collecting intelligence and those who are trying to create cases for criminal prosecution, that should concern a lot of americans. because even if we are getting criminals by sharing more information, you shouldn't be using intelligence sources. you shouldn't with be able to. it shouldn't be constitutional or legal -- kennedy: no. it's a violation of fourth amendment rights. but it brings up so many issues, and one of the biggest ones is it doesn't necessarily keep us safe. it gives us a false sense of security when you've got so much information and you've got to go through it. you're going to miss people like we did in orlando and san bernardino, and the most recent issues we've had of domestic terrorism. >> there's an enormous information disparity, unfortunately, between the people who have access to this and the rest of the general public, and they have real reasons for fighting some of that transparency and disclosure and also reasons of self-interest and lack of transparency for doing so. so it's really hard because we're always discussing thwithoo the programs, of course.

people don't know the full extempt of it. i do think -- extent of it. kennedy: by executive order. >> by executive order, in the last days -- kennedy: why did they do that? >> i think because they're trying to just create more sort of hurdles, things that the administration is going to have to deal with. the wet foot/try foot policy for cuban immigrants, for example. is donald trump going to go back and say, okay, for this one class of immigrants we're going to have this separate policy while we're building the wall and all the other things we promised to do? the obama administration has been bad, by the way, on national security issues that deal with the fourth amendment -- kennedy: of course, that's why none of this is a surprise that he's increasing finish. >> but you have to ask why now. kennedy: i don't know. last middle finger. >> i blame obama. kennedy: i blame obama because i think that he does not fundamentally respect freedom. that's why you come back every time.

thank you, my friend. red tie. >> always. kennedy: coming up, the white house press corps agree to form a family band once he's in the white house? find out on the next topical storm. [dad] alright, buddy, don't forget anything! [kid] i won't, dad... [captain rod] happy tuesday morning! captain rod here. it's pretty hairy out on the interstate.traffic is literally crawling, but there is some movement on the eastside overpass. getting word of another collision. [burke] it happened. december 14th, 2015. and we covered it. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪

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from hashtag topical storm user michael. you know you've asked yourself, what have donald trump manual gesticulations been missing? an accordion, obviously. when you add the world's most painful instrument to his wild hand gestures, suddenly his presidency makes perfect sense. here it is. >> i don't like the way that look, but i would be able to do that if i wanted to. i'd be the only one that would be able to do that. ing we're doing them a tremendous service by doing it. we are going to build a wall, and people would go crazy. [laughter] kennedy: it's the music, the music accompanies it. take that, john lewis. topic number two. we now know who the world's greatest traveler is. his name is sam, and he's also the world's greatest knitter.

every time he visits a new landmark, he knits a sweater of it before he goes, and so far he's created 103 different sweaters for the golden gate bridge to stone hedge. here's the crazy thing. i have the exact same hobby! see, this is tom's house, this is tom's refrigerator. i like to snack on stuff sometimes when i sneak into his kitchen around three in the morning. this is tom in bed. i had to watch im60 or 70 times before i got this sweater right. sleeps like an angel. he smells like a wet dog. topic number three. it's martin luther king day. when americans honor dr. king's legacy by going to the mountain. because nothing ends racism like spending $200 per person in

fresh, white powdery snow. here's one guy who found the perfect jump to show off his great ski skills. just listen to the sound he makes right before he lands. >> [bleep] [laughter] kennedy: that double. >> shriek is the sound one makes right before involuntary timber castration. there it is. [bleep] [laughter] he sounds like a mockingbird anally gave birth to a cuckoo. i have a dream that one day i will be able to get all of the splinters out of my taint. topic number four. in trying times like these, the world needs a hero. or maybe a meatball sub or something along those lines, but when the sandwich is done, it's time for a superhero, and not just one, we need a whole team of them. ♪

♪ >> looking good, everybody. listen, i'm going to take a quick cat nap. >> what? no. >> yeah, bro, i'm going to need to sleep at least one of those bad boys off. >> there's no time for that. >> ten minutes, tops. kennedy: those aren't heroes, those are cats. they are evil in disguise. if they try to save you, don't be field, it's a trap and you will end up chained to a scratching post and a litter box being swatted like a ball of yarn. you'll then need the real power rangers to come save you. >> oh, hey, guys. >> mail time. >> sweet. cool. kennedy: pretty great with. topic number five. a young man with way, way too much time on his hands has

counted to 100,000 on youtube because it takes 24 hours to listen to the whole video, we're only going to play it up phil 12,450. so take a deep breath. >> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,. kennedy: a lot of people are making fun of this guy. i, for one, applaud him, because anything is better than that lurid'smy street video about counting. ♪ one, two, three, four -- kennedy: i hope the children are out of the room right now. can we watch that again? thank you so much for watching. please follow me on twitter and instagram @ken anynation -- kennedynation, e-mail kennedy fbn@fox business.com. form on the show investigative

journalist glenn greenwald, tennessee congresswoman marsha blackburn and red eye maniac andy levey. those are three hot tune that cans i want in my sur veil pantry. i'll see you tomorrow night. good-bye. ♪ ♪ ry. >> i am standing right on the site of pickett's charge. >> it cost him hundreds of men, but it made him immortal. >> he leaves his descendants with a suitcase full of heirlooms. >> you want to take a look? >> i really would. >> then a fast-talking con man comes to town... >> he dressed well, he was very glib of tongue. >> ...forcing the general's heir into battle over his strange inheritance. >> what was your reaction? >> i was pissed. it began to dawn on me that i had been really truly ripped off. [ woman vocalizing, theme music plays ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] [ folk music p