for all americans. that's it for us tonight. we thank you for being with us. general jack keane and pastor robert jeffress.good night from. kennedy: new calls for robert mueller to step down. and hillary is now involved, too. steve bannon on the offensive for roy moore. air rage is on the rise big time and i will explain why. show your tray table, it's time to take off. is the mueller investigation compromised beyond repair? mueller is so precious that special legislation has to be crafted to keep him at his post.

the lead investigator in the clinton server probe named peter strzok *. he's the guy month changed the wording in calling hillary's actions from sneg gent to extremely careless. so he's busy. so what? so let's dance say republican pitchforkers who point to anti-trump text messages. republicans say he went full throttle on trump. now the special counsel can do anything it was the impetus of an fbi guy being head by an fbi guy hospital outcomes were

quietly shaped by another fbi guy. the ultimate goal being preserving the power and secrecy of the fbi. republicans are stretching it's oozing with taint. it appears to be deep staters using the means they were given to maintain their condescending status question so as not to be overturned by a powerful president who has their apple cart in his cross-hairs. welcome to the show. i'm kennedy. has the special counsel's side show permanently soiled the russian investigation? joining me now to discuss, town

hall.com president katie pavlich. within congress there are members from both parties frying to put legislation together to protect mueller from firing by the president. but you have a big and growing group of republicans who say this investigation is completely compromised. where is the truth in all of this? >> the senate judiciary chairman chuck grassley has asked for some explanation how they are handling bias at the fbi, making sure agents are doing their job without political input. but is anybody going to believe the outcome of the special counsel? there are two sides to that. if the special counsel can prove in a court of law to a judge that these crimes have been committed. on the side of public opinion, i

think that it's over. we had a crisis of confidence in our public agencies before the special counsel was appointed. but as we continue to see the biased letters and emails, people are looking at it and going, it looks pretty bad. kennedy: it doesn't help the special counsel claims of objectivity. you have the fact that christopher steele had some interaction, perhaps some employment with the fbi, he's the guy who put the dossier together. but long before the investigation was complete or she was even interviewed by the same agent or the agent who oversaw that was also the one as i said, he signed the man for the search warrant. he launched the russia investigation. >> if you go back to when the

special counsel was put in place by deputy general rod rosenstein. rob mule per was praised as an excellent choice for the special counsel. a man of integrity and character. that still might be true, but the people around him who have the conflicts of interest, we have evidence of him having clear political anti-trump pro-hilly bias. they are starting to make his investigation and his credibility look bad. kennedy: and he's the one who staffed this investigation team. it's curious, because i almost think it's not so much about people who are pro hillary. i think they are have much anti-trump. he's someone who has directly called out these intel agencies and the highest law enforcement agency in the land as being so self-protected that they are

essentially beyond reproach. >> we are seeing calls for more transparency and more information on this. judicial watch filed a lawsuit to get some of the text messages that were sent by strzok to his alleged mistress being pro hillary. kennedy: how did we get wind of this in the first place. is this the cia spying on a lead investigator at the fbi? or was this a love gone sour. >> that's a good question. i'm not sure where we found these messages, but i know they are being turned over to the house intelligence committee as part of their investigation. but the department of justice itself has an obligation to look at the fbi which they oversee and make sure their investigations are being conducted in a fair, honest, and non-political way.

it's hard to do in washington, d.c. because everybody is tied to politics? some way. but it really matters when it comes to our institutions. the most of powerful law enforcement agency. that people can have confidence in their decision making. it isn't a decision like the irs where certain people are held to a higher standard than others. it should give more confidence to the american people about the justice department. kennedy: if we do make it necessary changes so they can police themselves so they don't have to keep appointing special counsel. the one good thing about the legislation would make it hard to fire special counsel. the next time around, whoever is appointed will have to be careful about the person they put in there. >> i don't think that the white house has had any indication at all at least recently that they

are want to go fire robert mueller. as we have seen from both sides of the political aisle, they believe it would be political suicide to do that. but as more of this information comes out they are asking for more explanations about how this could have happened and where these conflicts of interest lie, especially when it comes to the clinton investigation. >> all of those questions they make you ask where is this going. 8 house republicans are calling for a probe of the fbi over the bureau's alleged special treatment hillary clinton received during its investigation into her email server. lawmakers want attorney general jeff sessions to appoint a second special counsel to look into clinton. they say there has been a double standard in the way the fbi has treated hillary clinton and

donald trump. will we ever see such an investigation or will this get swept under the rug like a smashed email server? let me go to my battery-powered power panel. dagen mcdowell and pete hegseth is here. along with kat timpf, "the greg gutfeld show" correspondent. hello. let's talk about this double standard. there might be something to the idea that hillary clinton was given such special treatment. the investigation was called special. and the language describing her actions was certainly softened taken from something that was very criminal to something that was not charge worthy but she got a good lip snacking from james comey. there is a double standard?

dagen: absolutely. is, mueller too conflicted to be running to be the special counsel? part of the issue is the fbi, what happened with jim comey and the fbi and the handling of the clinton investigation. the "wall street journal" editorial page called for robert mueller's resignation. mueller made it clear that he's not going to sit here while they disparage the fbi. and the agent who got caught sending anti-trump text messages to his mistress. he did interview cheryl mills

and huma abedin who lied. why weren't they charged. kennedy: what does mueller do? he's so dug in, and this is playing out exactly as james comey wanted. pete: i don't see him stepping down. if you look at the facts of the matter and what we reported at fox fuse channel. you see how biased it's been, the way politics has been weaponnized. but if you were to turn on other networks and watch other morning shows, everyone is going to be thrown in jail soon, the noose is tightening. kennedy: how many times have they claimed, this is it. this is the thing that will bring the president down. pete: every single time. it's offensive to nothing

burgers to call it a nothing burger. i think it amounts to a whimper. kennedy: as civil libertarians what we have to look at is the abuse of power and the amount of power concentrated at the fbi. so much of this is about maintaining and protecting that power and punishing the person going after it, namely the president. i'm not a fan of everything the president does, but i'm dubious about the fbi's role in the hillary clinton investigation on the server and their response to it. how do you see it? kat: the more that comes out about how biased this was. i understand why hillary clinton did what she did. i would have totally been a criminal, too, if i knew everything i did would be written off as no big deal. kennedy: if you win the presidency you put in a new fbi director.

if you lose you are not going to be charged because you plate victim. kat: she knew these people were her buddies. she didn't have to be as careful. i wouldn't call the russia investigation a nothing burger because we had four indictments. but you have to be an idiot to say that the treatment has been the same. kennedy: there is a double standard. pete: there are so many great agents that do great work. kennedy: will robert mueller ever indict or investigating head of the fbi? dagen: he believes it is above board all the time. that's the argument from the "wall street journal" editorial board. kennedy: there is a degree of sanctimony there. they are doing such good work by virtue of their goodness, they cannot be investigated in the same way. dagen: one issue that needs to

be looked at by mueller and his team is the use of that phoney dossier turned by hillary clinton and the democrats, put together by russians. the use of that in triggering the investigation of the trump team, and the potential wiretap. kennedy: by using that flimsy piece of garbage to spy on americans. dagen: this is a rhetorical question to you. why is it legal for the fbi to lie to someone being interviewed? it's perfectly a-okay legally for them to lie. but if you lie to an investigator they send you to jail. pete: the double standard is based on how they view themselves. when you are a journalist, we are unbiased because we have journalist after our name. it's the same standard they

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kennedy: president trump and the republican national committee are all in supporting roy moore. but last night steve bannon took the fight to republicans who have been keeping their distance from the controversial candidate. >> they want to destroy judge roy moore because they want to take your voice away. if they can destroy roy moore, they can destroy you. kennedy: latest polling data shows victory is well within moore's reach. but there is fear in the party that it could pose trouble for other candidates.

could a roy moore victory be more costly to the gop than a defeat? joining me, jason chaffetz. so do you support roy moore? >> it's not up to me. it's up to the people of alabama. let them decide. kennedy: i'm not asking about the people of alabama. i'm asking you, do you support roy moore. >> i'm not getting into that fight. i am not endorsing it. i haven't donated money. the people of alabama have to make a difficult choice. it's not somebody in utah or california or anywhere else. i wish we had done with donald trump wanted to do and that's was to stick with luther strange. that battle didn't go the president's way, otherwise we would have avoided all these

problems. kennedy: i wish ma don and sean penn had -- madonna and sean penn had stayed married. >> i want to support the republican. but in the case of this, it's a very, very difficult -- these women are coming across as very credible. the nation is wake up to a problem that's been there for decades. people who are highlighting this, the person of the year, i think that was a brilliant choice. kennedy: do you believe the women in alabama who have come out against judge moore? >> i think they have credibility. and i heard from the spokesperson yesterday that was disgusting. i think we need to look hard at what these people are saying.

and like i said, the people in alabama have a tough choice. but if your number one issue is abortion, i'm not going to blame somebody for saying look i'm not going to elect a democrat who is pro abortion when that's the number one issue. kennedy: jeff flake and ben sasse have been forceful in their condemnation of roy moore. but sas, e says it's -- sasse says it's possible to be pro-life and anti-child molestation. >> there should be for people who engage in this.

if they are guilty, there should be a political death penalty. i don't think we should put up with people who engage in this type of behavier at the highest levels of government. we shouldn't have to accept them. kennedy: this will be so problematic for the republicans endorsing them. i think they are being short-sighted. as the mother of girls, i'm so disgusted by the pattern displayed by roy moore, the fact he was band from a mall for being creepy to teenaged girls. i think the man is absolutely disgusting, i feel bad for the people of alabama for having to make this choice. i think it's gross, anybody coming to his political rescue for short-term gains, it will cause long-term problems. >> again, if we had done what

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kennedy: president trump announcing a huge foreign policy shift declaring the u.s. will recognize jerusalem as israel's official capital. president trump: it's time to officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. we want an agreement that is a great deal for the israelis, and a great deal for the palestinians. we are not taking a position of any final status issues. kennedy: israel and palestine claim jerusalem as their capital. and most of countries have kept

their embassies in tel aviv. the president's announcement was met with condemnation across the globe. the state department warned embassies to heighten security. and the palestinians called for three days of rage. but president obama isn't the first president to declare the intentions to move the embassy. president clinton and president brush promised to move the capital on the campaign trail. welcome back to the show, ambassador bolton. pretty much everyone who runs for president runs on this issue, but they all cave. >> they have got and lot of pressure the state department

which institutionally is opposed to this. and they hear a lot from theologians in the arab world and europe who adhere to a long out of date idea that somehow jerusalem is different from the rest of the former palestinian mandate. i think what trump has done has popped some bubbles and breaks some delusions. but fundamentally he recognized reality. consider this outlandish proposition. our embassy ought to be in the capital city. this is important for american foreign policy. it will make it more effective and efficient. you have had an illusion that israel is a temporary problem without a capital city. suddenly america found out where that capital city is and it will put its embassy there. kennedy: it defines our

intentions and policy. its there an argument to be made that this bolsters and enhances the peace process? western europe and pretty much all muslim nations are freaking. >> the trump announcement knead clear that we are not going to put the embassy in east jerusalem. the embassy will be in west jerusalem which no one mass ever argued will come under palestinian control under any conceivable scenario ask except the elimination of israel. this dates back to the 1940s. by because tonight reality it says to everybody in the peace process. if you want to secure a lasting, equitable peace agreement, that will have to be based on reality, too. kennedy: will our embassy actually ever move to jerusalem?

it's one thing to say it and declare, but it's another thing to physically move the real estate. >> he wants architects and engineers and plan tore get on it. the state department has the capability. the spotlight from congress should be on the state department asking for reports every 30 days. he says he supports the president's policies. as the former head of exxon he ought to be asking for reports. how long is it going to take to get this done? i don't underestimate how point is. we have important security requirements. but the president needs to make sure as soon as possible the first spadefuls of dirt are turned and this becomes

irreversible. kennedy: if you plan on having a smooth flight home this season you will have to cool your jets. the international air transport association reports the number of travelers get drunk, disorderly or even violent has risen by 50%. the incidents often result in passengers being forcibly retrained or booted from the flight. but after waiting in long lines for hours and receiving the casting couch routine from tsa, have they forgotten the lessons of 9/11? kat: i get angered by the security theater. i don't think it makes us any safer. by the makes it that i'm treated

like a criminal if i leave eyeliner in my bag. i was next to a stinky baby that's smelled terrible for five hours. kennedy: having flown with infants, sometimes you have got to mcguy a change station. kat: but i didn't punch the baby. you can't punch anyone on an airplane. pete: you hit your attendant call button. i blame trump. clearly it must be his fault. you are stuck on a plane talking to who? what if you are stuck next kat? kennedy: older americans who get brand-new iphones like the 8 and beyond and require the special earbuds, they have to

have the toggle other adapter. so they listen to a movie at full volume, and that's happened to me twice so i got twice and said so kay, we get it, you are watching something. what if everyone was watching something at full volume. dagen: people blame air rage on everybody and everything. but they are drunk, pulled out re probate asses. they acts like children. >> every weekends there multiple people drunk. i get people's bags dropped on

my head. kat: the pills help with the rage though. kennedy: by rairnlging against the rage -- dagen: i'm not getting arrested. i'm not called off the plane halfway through my destination. i sit there and shut up in my sober mind. i don't say anything. people are the problem it's bad enough the plane smells like fritos and feet. kat: the stinky kid. i was miserable. pete: don't take your shoes off. dagen: don't sit your bare dogs

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kennedy: do you want to hear got free market at work? listen to this baby. dozen of cities and counties working around the fda to buy drugs overseas to save their employees money. pharmaceuticals in the u.s. are expensive and they can be 80% cheaper in other countries. they are working with medication brokers to buy drugs in canada and australia for their employees. this is saving some cities millions of dollars a year. mayors and administrators are okay with it because it's a win-win for them. the fda seems to be turning a blinds eye. why are drugs so much cheaper

abroad. charles payne, host of "making money." welcome back. i love the story for you. we love the free market. i want to know how does this work? charles: a lot of foreign governments buy the drugs from the drug companies in bulk. the municipalities, some of them may be able to buy it. but it's so fragmented we are paying the full amount. kennedy: the diabetes drug. it's a big price there. charles: someone from england would say we don't pay a lot of money for it, but say what are your overall taxes. kennedy: let them pay the taxes and we'll get the bargain.

>> for we can change the fda process. it can cost up to $3 billion to bring a drug to market. most of of these drug companies have more lawyers than scientists because they are trying to find ways to spin these patents. we need to bring more competition into this. once it goes away, get generic companies. kennedy: get more treatments. you are right about the fda. this below thed awful bureaucracy. there are so many treatments that are never brought to market. and how many people die waiting for those drugs and waiting for new procedures they can't access because the fda arbitrarily stands in their way. >> it's a sham and a shame.

i'm hoping with scott gottleib involved. he seems to have a free market idealism or touch. it has to change for moral reasons and economic reasons. you can get the competition in there that's driven down the prices in every totter industry where things start out expensive and come down to a reasonable level. kennedy: i like to that people are using if the free market and going other places to get the same drug for bless money. charles: the president is talking about cracking down on that. charles: the carrot works better than the stick sometimes. kennedy: coming up, there is no proof donald trump collude with the russians. but we uncovered evidence he's working with the taiwan ease. we'll koiforts in the "topical

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kennedy: type * magazine named its person of the year. the 2017 pick goes to the silence breakers. the women and men who spoke out about sexual assault. the president took a pass on this year's prize because he didn't want to do a photo shoot. joining me now, host of "media buzz." howard kurtz is back. let's talk about this. is this the right pick?

>> reporter: it's a convenient win cultural phenomenon and "time" didn't want to give it to donald trump two years in a row. kennedy: do you believe someone from "time" called him and said it will be you and we need a photo shoot. reporter: a lot of people mocked that. but it was true. he made the runner up which meant he was a finalist in contention. given the explosion of sexual harassment allegations in hollywood, silicon valley and the media, it seems this is an earthquake worth recognizing. i appreciate the fact they did just put ashley judd on the corner, but some little known women as well. kennedy: lesser-known women with compelling stories, including an agricultural worker and a visa lobbyist.

it will be interesting to see what's inside the magazine and where this movement goes. but it certainly is one of those moments in time where people will look back and remember. i think "time" is right, this does represent a huge cultural shift. howie: if you look at times *'s impact on the world, the harvey weinstein story just happened two months ago it's a story that's not over as we can tell with the continuing revelations and possible resignations on capitol hill. kennedy: thank you for watching the show tonight. please follow me on twitter and instagram. you can find clips of the show, and email for tomorrow night's hate mail. tomorrow on the show,

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