kennedy: the two party system going the way of the dinosaur? john kasich thinks so. what does that mean for libertarians? president trump promising to drastically cut the size of government. but where should he start in jonathon hoenig has ideas. what's behind the sphanldsoff with preet bharara and the white house? the healthcare battle is killing our two-party system. that's fantastic. don't fell ohio governor john kasich the good news because he

wants something to pout about. he gave the old boo-hooking the end of everyone's least favorite two-some. >> i think the political parties are disintegrating before our eyes. kennedy: for kasich's brands of populism that requires aisle crossing for shelf con grament la tory fake virtue, that's horrible news. he falsely thinks people have chosen rational independent thought because they are put off by mom and dad bickering and have become politically celibate. extreme ideology may play a part. but parties no longer house philosophical soulmates. as democraove to the left, their philosophical bullying is off putting people who don't

want to be told what to think. this new healthcare bill is an example of fat, ugly spending. gallup has been tracking political affiliation for a dozen years. 35% of respondents claimed to be independent, but this year 44% made the same determination. this president is unrestrained by traditional party protocol. and people like being on the winning side out of fear or hope. it's always good to be in the winner's good grailss. the country was founded to exist without this two-party tyranny. john adams says there is nothing

i dreed so much as a division of the republic into two great par why is, each arranged under its leader. better informed skeptics are taking issues in the country back into their own hands. are america's two major parties dying before our eyes? are we watching a wither. and can america's democracy rise from the ashes. joining me is julie roginsky. steve smith, and gop sphrat just and author of "gop gps," edmund siegfried.

do you think john kasich wants to bring people together? julie: i love john kasich. he thinks everybody should be come buaccumulation buykumbayai. better late than never, welcome to the kumbaya era. kennedy: bipartisan essentially means spend more money. i don't know if bipartisanship is the greatest thing in the world. >> i think bipartisanship has been that where citizens don't

feel it's helping them. we want to see bipartisanship that achiefs results people can feel. kennedy: i don't know how point is to pass something both sides like when one side likes the someing that's so corolling and statist and wrong. >> if we give them a couple years and lock them in a room, i think we'll find some common ground. kennedy: what do you think, dave? dave: why is bipartisanship necessarily good? all the unnecessary wars. the mass incarceration is all achieved through bipartisanship. they act like they are such a divided congress. but when the patriot act expired

they got together real quick to write up another version of it. this idea people are turned off by the squabbling? they are turned off by the massive failures of government. that's what trump ran against. kennedy: that's what forces people into independent thinking. he's more an independent, whether you like his position, they don't belong to just one team. dave: he doesn't have the answers but he was right about they failed on the economy and the wars. evan: if you look at the way we reacted to the brands of politics. it was a way the people could feel powerful and say we can give a middle finger to you guys ansay this isn't working. if you are not careful, we are going to go after you.

julie: the problem for him is he owns a party. the republican party isn't the party of george bush or john mccain. it's the party of donald trump. but the problem for the republicans is you can't say you are anti-establishment when you are the establishment. they are in charge of the whole thing. david: we have a more divided government than we have had in my lifetime. donald trump, i'm not a fan. he's not a democrat or republican. kennedy: president obama holding his first cabinet meeting since becoming president. we are told a lot of subcabinet position are vacant as well as hundreds if not thousands of supporting staff jobs. the white house claims democrats

are obstructing appointments, and the president says he doesn't plan to fill a lot of jobs. is the new administration lagging behind or ahead of the curve? dave: i think they are ahead. when you look at rex tillerson he wanted his own deputy secretary of state. then we found out the deputy candidate had said bad things about the candidate during the campaign but was willing to work with him. if the president trusts someone enough to run a government agency, he should trust them to appoint their own deputy. kennedy: do we need all the federal jobs? dave: i don't know. maybe they would appoint someone who would shrink the agency. but the oh-eds they are calling

journalism are saying these position are crucial or vital. i don't know. we spent $4 trillion a year, we could cut half of it and have the same government we had under george w. bush. the idea that this is a disaster because he hasn't filled these jobs. kennedy: we just got a phenomenal jobs reports and there are other economic indicators. julie: that jobs report, he hasn't passed health reform or a budget. that's left over from the previous guy. those jobs are leading indicators. but i will say if you are rex tillerson you can't run the entire state department by yourself. claiming democrats for not getting through nominees who haven't been nominated yet. that's magical thinking.

julie: every cabinet secretary is confirmed who has been nominated. republicans control everything. you can't keep blaming barack obama. kennedy: what about chuck schumer who says we'll slow walk this. they can't filibuster anymore. harry reid did it. pottery barn, you break it, you own it. the trump administration this past weekend continuing to shake up the system. asking for the resignation of 46 federal prosecutors. new presidents do this all the time. but this was notable for preet bharara. >> you are no longer with us. you are fired. kennedy: the prosecutor of the southern district of new york

claims he was fired after refusing to resign. he says president trump told him he would be allowed to keep his job. others are saying bharara is making a self-serving spectacle in order to forward his agenda. let's ask judge andrew napolitano. judge napolitano: this is the district of most new york city. they serve at the pleasure of the president. if the president says you should resign, you should resign. unless you want to turn that resignion to a political spring board like running for u.s. attorney in new york state where donald trump isn't that popular. it might be a political sort of

gambit he could take. but in terms of coulds a could t could a president have whatever federal prosecutors he wants? certainly. it's been the law since 1989. kennedy. i don't know what evidence he has. no one outside the justice department knows what evidence he has. but an investigation once commenced would be continued by the acting u.s. attorney, then eventually the person who will be appointed, nominated and confirmed to the u.s. attorney. just because the u.s. on is gone doesn't mean cases go away. it's theoretic all possible for a for a u.s. attorney to say i'm

not going there. bharara is no friend of the first amendment. you remember what he did to some good friends of yours and mine at "reason" magazine. he out source -- he sought sourd got a gag order. you are in the media. you post something on your website. the government want to know who this person was who got on to your website and you can't talk about it. it's one thing for prosecutors to push the envelope. it's another thing for them to act like the first amendment doesn't exist. but donald trump. fill in the blank. the president of t youth is entitled to have his own sheriff of wall street which is what this job is sometime called because wall street is in it district. kennedy: what do you say to people who are outraged.

>> george bush did it twice. this is standard operating procedure. kennedy: you would think from the reaction this is a draconian exercise where sessions -- judge napolitano: i know some of theme people and i feel sorry for them that they are out of jobs. but they knew this was probable at the time donald trump defeated hillary clinton, and they knew it was possible at any time. barack obama could have said to preet bharara a year ago, to years ago, five years ago, it's time for somebody else to have your job and you are gone. kennedy: loretta lynch once had a job in new york city. judge napolitano: she was the u.s. attorney for the eastern district of new york. which is brooklyn and long island. kennedy: maybe preet thought he would be sitting tweet with fancy pants motion in d.c.

judge napolitano: i think he thought he could continue to pursue political corruption. this is the job once held by tom dewey who ran for president. by jim comey before he became director of the f.b.i. by rudolf giuliani before he became mayor. th office is known to be a political spring board it's also an office known for rooting out political corruption. kennedy: thank you very much for your insight. coming up, president trump's upcoming budget proposal set to slash federal jobs by historic proportions. is that good tore republicans to dream of a smaller fed?

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kennedy: the if you values the principles of small government president trump's soon to be announced budget could be appealing. analysts say it will likely call for the largest federal draw-down siworld war . the budget will prioritize

military and security spending while slashing housing, environmental program and foreign aid. it could signal a big shift in responsibility away from the feds in two states, private companies and you. jonathan hoenig is here. welcome back, jonathan. i know you have been critical of the president. but there has to be some good news in this budget for limited government people like you. jonathan: yes, yes. even a bad president dock some good things. carter deregulated the beer industry. obama deregulated crowd funding with his jobs act. so i do give president trump full credit for this. this is presently positive, not just that he's cutting government spending. but he's cutting it in areas like house and commerce and epa.

this is recent stuff. these aren't embedded in our history and constitution. i give donald trump full credit for taking a step that could be beneficial for the economy and our country. kennedy: we see fruit bearing from these position. ben carson and rick perry in charge agencies they despise. do you think their placement was intentional? jonathan: i wish this administration could make a bigger more principled argument about why it's important to cut government. i don't know if it's dr. carson or rick perry speaking in the president's ear. but i did like the president in so many ways, but i have to give him full credit. governments are like aircraft carriers, they don't necessarily turn on a dime.

even if you have cut the epa, it will have wealth creation positive effects for decades to come. new innovation and job creation. kennedy: job creation is one of the things that leftists tend to boo-hoo is the number of jobs that might go away if these agencies are less than you are n surgically culled. jonathan: jobs in government is necessarily destructive. this idea destroying government jobs. we are going to put people out of work. we are liberating them to work in real economy, the productive economy. kennedy: that's one of the boast phrases i have ever heard.

i know some people feel that's cold and heartless. we are so benevolent. we are freeing them from the shackles of the government. jonathan: only the private sector can create a job that creates wealth. kennedy: jonathan hoenig, thank you so much. marines reportedly on the ground in syria ready to take on isis. could we be drifting into another quagmire? we'll break it down coming up. ( ♪ ) i moved upstate because i was interested in building a career. i came to ibm to manage global clients and big data. but i found so much more. ( ♪ ) it's really a melting pot of activities and people. (applause, cheering)

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a. kennedy: president trump's vow to wipe isis from the face of the earth may be in motion. hundreds of u.s. marines and army rangers armed with heavy artillery on the ground in war-torn nations. syrian president bashar al-assad naturally not a big fan of the move. he's calling the deployed troops invaders. my next guest says he's right. this isn't some filthy hippie. this is iraq veteran bryan suits. are we invaders in syria? >> technically assad has a

point. the obama administration avoid this discussion because no one held their feet to the fire about an authorization for it in force for syria. the trump administration is saying if this is all one thing, we can make it a conventional one thing. when assad played the card. next day assad is going to say, thanks, i'll name a street after you, but bye. he may be a bad guy and a dictator s.o.b. but it's a sovereign state. there isn't and u.n. resolution saying we can do this. kennedy: aren't those lessons we learned from iraq? >> there were loads of

declarations that took his sovereign tough way. but this has not been dealt with. kennedy: it won't happen as long as russia is on the security council. >> until it's time to evict the grinning goes. -- the gringoes. by the end of this week we'll have north of a thousand marines and soldiers east euphrates along the turkish border poigs for an assault on raqqa. we have two active helicopter bases physically in syria. it's going to be embarrassing if assad checks the deed on syria and sees he's still on the owner there. kennedy: syria and russia have destroyed aleppo and caused so

many civilian casualties. do we want to go in there and make a horrible situation that much worse? and who are we fighting? >> luckily there is nothing left to blow up in aleppo so the russian air force moved on to another town south of raqqa it looks like assad wants other people to die in raqqa. the syrian kurds. turkey is busy blowing up the syrian kurds. it's hopelessly complex. it's become a very conventional conflict for america. when you bring artillery, you are fighting conventional war. kennedy: the rationale held over from the obama era, if we are giving them air cover, we are not really fighting.

but as you points out that's conventional warfare. >> tell the marine artillery men that they are note fighting a conventional war. they are fighting a very conventional war. if you want to amended the use of it in force andenl in syria, go ahead. kennedy: it doesn't make any sense to say the authorization applies to syria. >> when republicans tried to bring that up obama said what's the point. it's like declaring a separate war against the japanese. kennedy: it am not world war ii. world is very different. one thing we learned, you have to be specific. thank you for being here. you look center studious. >> i'm getting ready for the big

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kennedy: it's always heard than you think. guess sthois claiming to be a lire libertarian. this week it's mark cuban. cuban said it's hard on the libertarians. but from the same breath he says he believes america should guarantee citizens have healthcare. the former trump fan turned critic and took a few swings at the president and hinted at a 2020 run. saying, i'm not oprah. he says there is somebody who will have to run who looks forward instead of acting like it's 1975.

did we pick the wrong billionaire to be president in and does mark cuban know what libertarianism is? libertarian at heart. except for the part where he wants to project an entire entitlement on. dave: i'm an abolitionist at heart. it shows how far we have come that this term is out there in the mainstream and they know who we are. there are a lot of misconceptions about the philosophy. but i kind of like it in a way. my instinct is where you are not truly a libertarian but i'll take it as a victory. kennedy: if he runs in 202 --

dave: that's kanye's year. julie: can we go back to people who know this stuff for a living. old white guys, or old black guys. the last 44 were great. any one of them knows more than donald trump or mark cuban. kennedy: even mckinley? julie: even buchanan. kennedy: do you think democrats want a libertarian evan * democrats don't want a libertarian, they want someone hole stands up to president trump. this is the democratic vote. kennedy: he will be like pat buchanan and it won't ends well for anyone.

julie: we love buchanan. kennedy: the next time go out to eat you may in the the check is a little bigger than usual. it's not because you sprung for the sweet potato salad. restaurants are reportedly adding a labor surcharge in order to meet the new minimum wage. the charge expected to be 2% to 4% of the bill and it's going to leave 100% of consumers upset. evan: it's blatant so you see what's happening. everything government imposes on a business adds a cost. every compliance with a regulation adds a cost to the business.

it's a fact, liberals don't like facts. but it's a fact. the vast fa majority of the time the veo and the board -- the ceo and the board of directors don't sit around and say why don't we eat that cost. kennedy: in the food industry it gets passed on to poor people. julie: if you spend $100 on your sushi tonight, that's what, 2%, 3%. that's $2 or $3. daviddave: that's how liberals look at the world. go to mcdonalds. julie: what's $5.

evan: you are passing the cass on to the consumer and the consumer won't go there. kennedy: i heard this for so many years, the minimum wage is going to destroy the economy. what he keep raising the minimum wage. julie: while you are spending $100, a person can't afford to feed their kids. kennedy: that assumes zero sum function in the economy. that's not only a fallacy. it's dead wrong. if i'm spending $100, that means a poor person can't spend the money because i have got all the money and there is one pie and i have got a bigger piece of it. if i have $100 to spend, there

is no interface between what i'm doing and what you can't afford for your kid for a variety of reasons. julie: and the server gets $2 or $3? kennedy: $15 is not going to be the minimum wage, it will be the maximum wage. there will be no mobility in the economy and there is nothing that kills the economy faster and immobility. >> automation. kennedy: we have to wrap up this segment. vladimir putin's spokesman says democrats sound hypocritical because according to him he and hillary had some of those talks as well.

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kennedy: as the house intelligence committee prepares for hearings on russia's melding in the elections, russia

ambassador claims they also met with members of hillary clinton's team. she was the presumed winner by the entire world. accoing to a kremlin spokesperson, sergey kislyak also met with other people during the campaign. arizona senator john mccain says there is a lot more to this thing that is yet to be reveal. why was everybody apparently meeting with the russians? my fast it former cia officer, mike baker. mike: thank you. i'm trying to figure out what that accent was that you just used. kennedy: i'm putting it on my reel.

if it's no big deal kislyak was meeting with various members of the trump team and the hillary clinton team. he's out of a job because he was less than 100% transparent of his recounting of his discussions. the fact that he talked to kislyak. i finished having lunch with him, he's a terrific guy. the fact that he met with kislyak isn't a big deal. claire mccaskill and a variety of politicians over the past yearnd a half met with him but in today's envonment, you have to be up front, you have to be transparent. that's what you should be. kennedy: i love that claire mccaskill was caught in a doozy. i never met with russia. oh, wait. you are saying x should be focused on more substantive

issues when it comes to russia, china and iran. how are we focusing on his improperly? mike: there is a lot of noise. is there some nefarious conspiracy between trump and trump's folks and putin and putin's folks because there were these conversations? all we have got right now is there were conversations. of course, there are conversations. the clinton camp appears to be saying they weren't in was nothing they discussed. kennedy: uranium one? mike: are they failing to remember? kennedy: they can't admit it because it destroys their mccarthyism argument. mike: there is a hysteria that's been building. kennedy: who is being more hysterical, someone like john mccain or some of these

democrats who are being knee tore mccarthyist? >> we have lots to worry about with russia and north korea and iran. there are substantive issues we should be focused on. we should do the investigation. i'm not saying don't do an investigation. we should be pragmatic and realize that's what they always do. the russian agenda, what their national security interests are don't align with ours. we are in this stage. we are not going to get out of it. but fine, do the investigations. the house intel committee will be completely partisan. i don't think we'll get anything of substance out of that. the f.b.i. is important. but let's realize we have different issues to focus on. coming up. ever wonder what would happen if you slap some one in the face with fire?

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kennedy: when your high tops are fading and around acid washed jeans. in the "topical storm," there is a real storm outside. topic number one. in china when people climb

upstairs they don't use their feet and legs like the rest of the world. they use their heads. at least that's what le long does. he holds the guinness book of record for the longest consecutive stepped on his head. lord knows i can be competitive. but i'm never one to shy away from a physical challenge. i usually cap out at 19 steps on my head. but there is a bolivian athlete trying hard to dethrone long long. there he is. such precision and grace. i mean that's how you do it, man.

technology is your friend. tada! writes his medal. topic number two. do you love took at work but feel less than satisfied because you can't invest. $30,000 in a state of the art range. one woman in china who is not lee long-long's wife. she figured out a solution for her need for that sizzling bacon smell. now you have lunch. sizzle it up right there at your desk. smells like movie theater butter.

topic number 3. this guy got popped with hot fingers. we got a faceful of ghostly flame. it's the fire slap. >> this week on slow mo sunday, fire slaps. kennedy: his hair caught on re. look at that. a face full of ghostly nonsense. the slapper is now doing 600 years in prison. slap on-slap off. topic number four. bicycles aren't just for peewee her man any more.

the cyclists were taken aback by a wind storm topping 60 miles per hour. the cyclists were stopped in their tracks. 35,000 of them from all over the world were taking place but their plans were put on hold because of the winds. it's so windy. if you ask me they are a bunch of babies. push through the wind and the pain. just like this head strong hero. that's it. perfect. all we needed to do. concussions. mow ham evidence ali made a lot of money. topic number five. we know humans use bicycles. but what about man's best friend. the good old reliable canine.

dogs have found a way to get around as well. it's the cutest thing i have ever seen in my life. they stapled that dog's paws to the horse. does the world get any better than that? no, it does not. because it's a horse and a dog. look what happens when a cat tries to ride a horse. just watch. yeah, the horse ate that cat and washed it dwownt tears of nancy pelosi. thank you for watching the show tonight. you can follow me on twitter and instagram. and email at kennedyfbn@foxbusiness.com.

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