it's obvious what they are. >> i any there are a number of pieces that need further investigation. lou: we are going to investigate that further tomorrow and we'll be talking with you thank you for being with us tonight. kennedy: if you thoughe senate's under car got tested. the form f.b.i. director gives us a prove view of his statement tomorrow. the white house aides are urging the president to take it easy with the tweets. will that stop him from firing away during comey's testimony? how about skipping va vacay to t the work done. there was a taste what's to come with comey.

>> at this point you filibuster better than most my colleagues so i'll move on to another question. >> can you give me a yes or no answer? >> it's not a short answer. >> yes, it is. >> what you feel is irrelevant, admiral. kennedy: if his 7-page written statement is any indication, expect more heat as the former f.b.i. director will be pounded on statements he head on the record about a loyalty pledge, and asking for nor investigative resource. he's no longer a government employee and can spill for thrills at will. in his testimony he didn't say the president obstructed justice. if it seems like the grandstaingiraffe is protecting president trump,

expect senators to come unhinged. the vultures will want comey to admit he made sessions to never leave him after he lone with trump. this is the only shot the senators have to put the grill mark in comey's bony backside. and slim jim says this public appearance is one time only. that means they have one afternoon to find out exactly what the president asked him, if it was so egregious, how about make an issue of it before he was canned. the president will be live tweeting which i wholeheartedly endorsed.

he's nominating chris christie's former attorney to be the f.b.i. director. if we are not going to get out of comey's heart of stone, at least the president will make it entertaining for the rest of us. i'm kennedy. part of james comey's statement released earlier refer to michael flynn. he says he's a good guy and has been through a lot. i hope you can see your way clear to let him go. i reply only that he is a good guy. i did not say i would let this go. heavy stuff. tim carney joins me tonight.

joining me, tim carney. there is one thing i know about james comey. he has enemies on both sides of the aisle. it seems the intel committee was in a kerfuffle as they grilled the members of the administration. so now what should we expect? is there more animus in store for comey's testimony? >> the tension today is they were refusing to answer questions about conversations they had with the president or comey had with the president. and they were giving what i thought and the democratic senators thought were bogus, thin reasons for not doing it. none of those were good reasons. so what we wanted from comey, what the democrats and media granted comey is for him to relay every detail of every conversation he had with trump.

kennedy: what does his opening testimony tell you about how forthcoming he's going to be on the hill tomorrow? i was surprised. we were writing off a serious editorial saying james comey needs to tell us every detail, and he did it. i also think this might be the entirety of what he's going to say. it's mostly facts. it's a little bit of speculation, and anything beyond that, they will say it's not my business. if he's smart he will say you have to ask the president. when he said that about mike flynn, was he doing x, y and z. comey does a good job in his testimony saying this is what he said, this is how i took it. democrats will be pissed that he

didn't take it further. kennedy: will he have access to that memo and will they force comey to cough up any other conversations that he wrote down? >> that's the next question. what we have now is his rewriting of his contemporaneous notes or editing down of his contemporaneous notes. to see the actual notes would be the hard proof and that's what you would ask for if you thought he was leaving things out. does he have the right to with hold that? i don't think he does. when he was the f.b.i. director, he's creating a public record. the argument today that we can't do this because the investigation under way. those i think were shot down pretty well. to actually see the notes, i think would be the last remaining step and full transparency from comey. kennedy: what about his relationship with robert mueller.

do we know of conversations they have had prior to the testimony comey is supposed to give tomorrow, and will that in any way influence what he says since he is a private citizen? >> so on mueller there will be doubt object both sides. is he going -- is he somehow going to be too soft on trump gun for trump? is it approach great's in this role at all? if mueller is investigating the obstruction of justice, that's the reason he would have talked to comey. can comey talk about whether he talked to mueller without giving away something he might not want to give away? that's the cleverness of these questions. kennedy: also tell us if this special counsel is in any way compromised by a previous relationship.

the two are very fond of each other. i'm wondering that fondness provides a questionable shield. we'll find out tomorrow. thank you so much, tim carney. the bombshells dropping right before comey's testimony, the "new york times" reporting the comey asked jeff sessions to never be left alone with president trump again. the wall street journal said sessions offered to resign as attorney general just in the last few weeks. can the president escape this week unscathed and keep his administration intact? let's bring in the party panel. kat timpf and author of the brand-new book "mean dads for a better america," tom shillue.

and chart hurt. welcome -- charles hurt. charles, i officially accept jeff sessions resignation. charles: that's pretty interesting there. it makes sense he would have offered it given the fact that president trump has to be very upset with him with his decision to recuse himself. but the reason jeff sessions recused himself -- and i always those should not have recused himself. the reason he recused himself is because he wasr was part of the -- he was part of the trump campaign. and that's an entirely different things. if you are donald trump you don't have any political background to begin with, and i come into this town and your mind is blown. you think everybody is out to get me.

kennedy: let's talk about jeff sessions. in regards to whether or not the f.b.i. director -- the former f.b.i. director asked him to never leave him alone in the room with the president tom: why is he such a scaredy cat. what's the problems being alone with the president. he seems to be afraid to answer him. all he has to say is that line of inquiry is making me uncomfortable. i am the director of the f.b.i., i say what i think. spank, say what you are feeling. kennedy: kat, how would you feel if someone was going behind your back?

kat: i would not appreciate that. there have been a lot of people in the past who decided they don't want to be alone with me anymore. but at least they told me to my face instead of telling jeff sessions about it. this way i can say it didn't work out. kennedy: one thing we are not considering, the president's feeling. how do you think he feels. kat: he probably wishes he could have approached him directly. now everybody knows how he feels. he says i don't want to be left alone to jeff sessions? that's tough on an ego. kennedy: democratic senators were tough on the four panelists they were interrogating at the committee hearing. who is going to be heard on james comey? republicans or democrats? charles: i would have earlier said i would have thought the republicans would be.

but reading through the testimony he's going to give. there is n all of it is already leaked out. and based on the fact he didn't pursue charges of obstruction of justice obviously -- these are the smartest prosecutors we have in the country. and they all heard hip talking about this and none of them thought there were charges. i think he will get a lot more from democrats. kennedy: do you think they will ask how the memo got to the "new york times"? charle he line it has en leaked out. i'm not saying it was comey with a napkin over the phone leaking it out. kat: people are calling the leaks fake news. does this mean they are not fake news?

kennedy: even if the president disputes the account that comey is going to give tomorrow -- charles: i have never doubt -- i'm sure the president did say, mike is a good guy. it's the kind of thing he tweets out. why wouldn't he say it in private. kennedy: guess what we are doing? a whole lot of nothing with congress. we are nearly five months into his presidency. the freedom caucus is calling on congress to skip the summer break and get down to work. i think the freedom caucus are the on people who want to be re-elected. kat: republicans always say during elections, healthcare and tax reform is too important and you can only vote for me. the on way they can show they mean that is to get it done

rather than taking a month off. i haven't taken a month off ever. kennedy: who take a month off. if you had those dead lines and that impending doom hanging over your head, even if it's just a campaign gimmick. it's a smart one to say we are one of the serious ones in the room. how do you like that, paul ryan? tom: they will say i don't take vacations like that. i want to get back to work. kennedy: that's what most americans do. we work until we die, then when we are dead, we work some more. kennedy: i mean that as a compliment. the party panel is returning a little bit later. and we have some stuff to chew over. president trump wants toed a accessories to his border wall.

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am prepare travel, physical, tall, beautiful, southern border wall. kennedy: so is canada. that thing is going to be impervious. the president is not back down from his campaign promise to build that wall. with mexico not cooperating with payment, the president is thinking of alternative means to offset the cost. his latest proposal is placing solar panels on the wall. but will that work? brian brenberg, associate professor of economics at the king's college. with the wall, i want to say mark it off. you make a good point. which is we should pay for the wall if it's something we need instead of having a solar bake sale. do you want your government

to find creative ways to pay for everything. or do you want them to be transparent. i don't like the idea of solar panels on the wall. the government should go to the people and say this our priority and we want you to pay for it because it benefits you. when you start doing solar panels on a wall, it has the feel of being gymingy and goes -- gimmicky, and goes against the initial promise not to pay for it. super transparency. kennedy: if we don't have the money we need for all this stuff, we need to cut something out of the budget. to whom are you going to sell $90 billion worth of solar energy. brian: solar energy is not a proven resource for energy production.

we can't even if to do that necessarily. en we want it to double as a border security wall? how is that going to work? you are talk about hundreds of miles over crazy terrain. you are going to set up solar panels. no one has couple with an engineering perspective and said this is how it's going to work. why are we talking about it. what's the best way to do that. is it a wall? is it something else. we are getting lost in all of these details. we are losing sight of the principles here. and i would like to get back to the principles. >> the bay basic question is what is the function of government. kennedy: why not just slap a rollercoaster. brian: you can start a railroad.

we don't want them to get into these businesses. that's not the function of government. we started with a solution and went searching for the problem. if you identify the problem, look at the full range of solutions. kennedy: look at the solyndra debacle. that's one of the black eyes on the obama presidency. investment in a solar company that went completely bust. brian: i hate to throw that word around. why are we talking about solar panels? have we foak foregone the that they can't stand on their own two legs in most markets? now we are talk about using them on one of the biggest pieces of security in the world? kennedy: we don't need to repeat the failures of solar over and

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libertarian solution is former texas congressman dr. ron paul. if you were still in congress, how would you convince your peers to pass the kinds of healthcare legislation you and i both know this country needs which looks nothing like this? >> with a great deal of difficulty. the people aren't ready for a free market answer, they have become too dependent. there is a competition out there between those individuals who would love to have total socialism and one-party payment system, and those who endorse and continue to use corporatism. no one is quite willing to take on the insurance companies, hospital management companies, and that's about all they do. it will be difficult to get rid

of it all. there would be chaos and who knows what's going to happen. it's going to get worse. but what they could do and could have done a while ago. republicans could have passed something. they just removed the bands aid. then look at the tax code and why they force everybody to get their insurance through their employee. that's bent biggest problem. we don't have the insurance system. we destroyed the concept of insurance. the marketplace i'm still convinced could work if we allowed it to work. so it would be difficult, so i would have to convince the people that it's better to have a society that's free and free market, that they deliver cell phones and tvs and you get good quality.

you can deliver services the same way. but nobody has the trust because they demagogue and say the people will be dieing in the stand nobody cares. d obamacare killed this person. it goes on and on. kennedy: it gets us away from the point of healthcare at all. in which we obviously need more innovation and technology. technology and innovation will allow better treatment and allow people to live better and longer lives. do you think there is a republican party left anymore. it seems like there are so many disparate opinions within the party it's impossible to have a logical conversation with so many of these. they may not be in favor of single payer per se, but they are in favor a watered down version of obamacare. >> they are complaining as much

as the democrats. your issue about technology that should be driving prices down. but it doesn't do this. 237 it's one place where the prices go up. you get reimbursed by third parties, and they are forced to do it. they may complain now and then. but they were all for this obamacare. this is corporatism at its worst. the run problem is they get stuck and defend what's happening. they say that ste preenterisanit isn't. >> they shifted the money from the government to the insurance company. sow it's corporate welfare on the grandest scale. thank you for your time and expertise. i appreciate it. oliver stone interviewed vladimir putin at the kremlin. and the russian president has interesting things to say

regarding gender and sexuality. when asked by stone if he ever had off days, putin stated, i am not a woman so i don't have bad days. i'm not trying to insult anyone, those are just the nature of things. there are certain natural cycles. i think it's safe to say unlike the interview with megyn kelly, this one did not disappoint. the party panel is back. so tom,n if megyn had asked some of these questions, maybe it would have been a more successful interview. tom: you get together with a couple of guys. oliver stone, he can hang with putin. if i were oliver stone i would be talking about showering with men, too. you justlet it flow. he didn't have any bad days.

kennedy: men don't have bad days, do they? kat: there are a lot of people in my life who need to whine a lot less. it was a real interview and it happened. charles: the mystery to me is how does putin know what it's like to be a woman? kennedy: he's intuitive. charles: guys aren't intuitive. kennedy: that's why they don't have bad days. intuition is theechanism that bogs you dn. he was also asked if he would shower in a subject a reason next to a gayman. he said he knows judo so he would be fine doing that. charles: i take it to mean he knows how to use his hands.

tom: why did they have to make it a submarine? improve the setting. on like a princess cruise, maybe. kennedy: your ideal scene. a princess cruise. kennedy: the buffet afterward would be. and free, you already paid for it. kat last word on showering. kat: they just called it a sailing ship. kennedy: i loved he moment of it. i will love it even more when you think all the things you can do on a submarine or cruise ship. only here. thank you so much. tom, kat. i'm see trauma little later.

he will be back to tell us about his new book. president trump's aides are pleading to with him to stop tweeting and change the tone. but can he resist the urge to live tweetn i hope n. do it, man. how many times has donald trump tweeted since joining twitter in 2009? the answer after the break.

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kennedy: before the break i asked how many times has donald trump tweeted since joining twitter in 2009. the answer is 35,000. will he add to that number tomorrow during james comey's hearing before the senate intel committee in according to post. two white house sources said the president does not plan to put down twitter on thursday. so what is the over-under for the amount of trump treats. i'll it at 75. the associate editor for reason.com is joining me.

53% of republican respondent say they also believe our president overuses twitter. what do you think? >> it's not triesing they think that, because they are right. if you are a supporter of trump you don't want him tweeting things that make it look like he's obstructing justice. saying comey should be afraid of the tapes i have. it may not get him in trouble but for his tweets. kennedy: i think in terms of the travel ban, the tweets and the campaign sloganeering should be left out of. i think i disagree with you when i say i want to see the president tweeting seriously tomorrow.

>> which is funny, he tweeted the other day web every one in the main -- the other day, everyone hates it when i tweet. but that's not true. the media loves it when he tweets because it gives us more stories to cover. kennedy: you said he should delete his account, i think he should bolster it. if he shut down that account, not only would his supports and detractors be very upset, journalists would have no idea what to do, because that's where they debt their story idea. >> that's right. there is something about him his hard-core supporters find most admirable about him. the fact that he's a straight talker and not politically correct. and he doesn't use a filter through staff members or communications people.

he just tells them directly. that's something that distinguished him from virtually any other candidate who has ever run for office in a serious way. kennedy: i don't think anyone every conceptualized what it would be like and we are coming to terms with it. it's interesting. but we'll see what happens tomorrow. they say his schedule is quite full. sean spicer said he will ve a speech around 11:30. they say he will not be watching. i cannot imagine he is going to be the subject of this hearing. i can't manage he won't watch. >> i think they should hire a rosie o'donnell to say things about trump at the same time to distract him. the subject he loves most, going after her. kennedy: rosie o'donnell and

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kennedy: james kelly's testimony d james comey's testimony isn't the only thing on people's minds. cher announced she is going to star in a broadway musical called on the botox. this is the "topical storm." topic number one. do you have one of those weeks when nothing goes your way? first your assistant forgets to brit bourbon to the green room. and to top it off when you are leaving the grocery store some maniac runs up and kicked in your windshield.

an atlanta woman was pulling out of kroger. and the guy decided to stomp the yard on the windshield. she didn't know why they did it. a kroger spokesperson said this is the penalty for having more than 10 items in an express checkout lane. i was just kidding. they won't break your windshield. they waterboard you instead. that's also a joke. but the real penalty is having to watch an entire season of "girls" on hbo. so glad i get to see so much of lena dunham. if you ever wondered what it was like to go on a road trip with president trump?

a navigation company is offering a donald trump gps that will give you directions in the voice of the 5th president. >> you have reached your destination. let's make navigation great again, okay? nnedy: at first i thought this was a sketch on "saturday night live." but it dawned on might can't be because it's kind of funny. the company also has a hillary clinton gps. but they are getting a lot of complaints on that one because for some reason it doesn't go know how to get to washington, d.c. and if that weren't bad enough, it blames the russians when it gets lost. and its speech is always slurred. it's like the gps has been drink every day since november 8. that was me, that was not the

gps at all. of course hillary clinton isn't the only one hitting the old -- a female peacock walked into a los angeles liquor store. i'd did not end well. customers say the bird became very upset when the owner refused to sell to her because she forgot her i.d. then the tea come smashed over $500 worth of booze. witness are calling it the least weirdest thing to ever happen in a los angeles liquor store. cops were able to corral the bird and she has since been reunited with her owner. topic number four. a brooklyn-based design company

created an elizabeth warren action figure. i know this sounds like a joke. but it's actually an educational tool. kids who play with it learn how to fake their native american heritage and a staunch supporter for equal pay bile paying female staffers less than the men. i'm a lit tell snarky tonight. i blame the path salts. they are so moisturizing. topic number 5. finally congratulations are in order to george and amal clooney who pulled off the unthinkable

feat of watching his last movie without falling asleep. actually amal gave birth to twins. and we wish them all the best of luck. george, amal, if you need a sitter, i hear kathy griffin is looking for work. all jokes aside, she is a good babysitter. just don't let her do arts and crafts with the kids. if you watch tom shiue tk politics, you know's a pretty conservative guy. but did you know he eusd to be a i am totally blind.

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kennedy: tom shi through group with a mean dad and tough mom who he says instilled american values into his life. he says he wasn't a victim of strict parenting, he waltz beneficiary of it. he opens up about his road to adulthood and conservatism. this so great. there are some things in higher love, including neighbor discipline which is a lost art and everyone is tear fired it.

and no one * does it any more. tom: the other day i heard a little story that there was a neighbor in my building. someone heard him say, if you don't want it, i'm going to call mr. shillue. now in i'm the mean dad in my bronx neighborhood. kennedy: i had a neighbor kid take $20 out of my wallet. i said don't do that. it's not owe kay. her dad called me and said next time can you call me first? i have said no,. tom: if i came home and mr. sullivan was yelling at me, he would say, what did you do? that would be his first question. kennedy: this is such a fantastic book. i think you need tough parenting in order to have something to

rebel against. tom: i kept a diary in high school. there was a section where i talked -- it was called a self-analysis, a con versus liberal. if there is a conservative versus liberal, i always take the liberal. i love being a liberal and argue on the left. you snowy said this? because it's always sow idealistic and the conservatives stick to the issue at hand. kennedyhand.. i did it it of practicality. i wanted to win arguments. you wanted to win back then. i didn't care which side was right. kennedy: you knew your parents were going to read your diary. sow you wrote you were a liberal.

your parents let you go out into the world. tom: a lot of my teen years i was a little bit wild. i dyed my hair like david beauy. and played dungeons and dragons. my editor said what do your parents think? i said they would let it go. they were kind of hands off. once they got me to a certain point they had faith they did their work, and they knife would find my way. kennedy: and you did furl circle. i met your wife and children. you have a beautiful family it's a testament to your great upbringing. thank you for watching the show tonight. follow me on twitter and instagram. tomorrow night don't miss fbn's

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